40th ICSSC COLLOQUIUM: Direct Satellite to Cellular Mobile Services. Norcroft
Centre, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK. This year’s 40th ICSSC Colloquium will be held in Bradford
UK on Monday 23rd October 2023. The topic of Satellite-to-Cell, or
Direct-to-Mobile Service has been a rapidly evolving ecosystem and is a timely
next step building upon on last year’s colloquium topic on Megaconstellations.
In the interest of our target international audience for this colloquium, we
have a comprehensive technical, business, and regulatory coverage for this
year’s topic - Direct Satellite to Cellular Mobile Services. Specific
areas to be addressed by the distinguished panel of experts. |
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9:00 - 9:20 |
Colloquium Opening by Shirley Congdon, VC, University of Bradford, Murthy Renduchintala, ICSSC Executive Chair, Rajeev Gopal and Glyn Thomas, Colloquium Co-Chairs. |
9:20 - 10:00 |
Session 1 (Keynote): Direct-to-Cell Keynote: Global Connectivity - Challenges and Opportunities by Jon Wakeling, BT. Keynote Speaker will provide a review of diverse use cases for connecting humans and machines further augmented with direct-to-device networks and complementing existing terrestrial and space platforms and discuss unique challenges and opportunities that extend existing systems. This includes truly pervasive approaches that leverage the best of diverse technologies within the integration framework of 3GPP including non-terrestrial network nodes for Direct-to-cell approaches. With global coverage across all oceans and continents being the primary differentiator, the space segment, recharged with megaconstellations, will eventually be indispensable for global connectivity including support for emergency, disaster relief, and security. |
10:00 - 11:00 |
Session 2 (Panel): Innovative Use Cases Possible with Megaconstellations by Joel Grotz, SES Satellites, Paul Febvre, Satellite Applications Catapult, Rajeev Gopal, Hughes Network Systems. Panel will discuss how new Direct-to-cell systems, instead of replacing incumbent technologies, can complement terrestrial and legacy space networks to provide ubiquitous coverage, capacity, and broadcast efficiencies. Besides offering important societal and economic benefits, this unification will also support enhancing emergency/disaster management and national security. |
11:00 - 11:15 |
Coffee Break |
11:15 - 12:30 |
Session 3 (Panel): Direct-to-Cell Services - Business and Strategy by Glyn Thomas, Airbus, Barry Evans, University of Surrey, Stephane Anjuere, Thales Alenia Space. Panellists, drawn from network providers and system designers, will debate the advantages of their technology road maps in delivering network and user equipment fulfilling demanding needs in terms of launch, size, flexibility, and Capex while covering larger areas. They will address various funding and deployment strategies and |
12:30 - 14:00 |
Lunch |
14:00 - 15:45 |
Session 4: Technical Insights with Cross Plane/Layer Designs and Future Advances by Daniele Finocchiaro, Eutelsat, Stephane Anjuere, Thales Alenia Space, David Zufall, Dish Network, Session 4 will comprise a series of technical presentations from experts involved in Direct-to-cell implementation, 5G harmonization, equipment design, and satellite payload (bentpipe/processed) trades. This includes how space (GEO/LEO) and terrestrial systems will interoperate with key enabling technologies for mobility/roaming, security, software defined networks, artificial intelligence, cost effective electronically steered antennas, smart routing and traffic engineering, and dynamic spectrum allocation. |
15:45 - 16:00 |
Coffee Break |
16:00 - 16:45 |
Session 5: Keynote - Regulatory and Governance Challenges by Fabrizio De Paolis, European Space Agency (ESA). Keynote speaker will provide an overall assessment of the challenges and opportunities in the application of mega constellations for emergent business cases including direct to device. The Speaker will summarise the overall helicopter view ascertained by ESA, the key opportunities and technology challenges for European industry, and how ESA is supporting industry and academia to rise to these challenges. |
16:45 - 17:20 |
Questions and Concluding Remarks The Colloquium will close with a summary of the key takeaways from the five sessions. |
28th Ka and Broadband Communications Conference (Ka) and the 40th International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC) Midland Hotel, Bradford, UK. |
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8:20 - 8:30 |
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8:30-8:40 |
Room: Princes Ballroom Welcome by Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire Combined Authority, UK. |
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8:40 - 10:10 |
Room: Princes Ballroom Keynote 1: ARTEMIS Mission Update, by Steve Creech Moon to Mars Program Office Deputy, NASA, USA. |
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10:10 - 10:30 |
Coffee Break | |
10:30 - 12:10 |
Room: Princes Ballroom Plenary
Panel 1, Artemis: Advancing Game Changing Communications and Navigation
Technology, chaired
by Badri Younes, Senior Advisor on Communications and
Navigation Capabilities, Operation and Technology, NASA, USA.
The panel
will focus on Artemis: Advancing Game Changing Communications and
Navigation Technology. Panelists will include Senior Technologists and
Senior Managers from Major Aerospace Corporations and Space Agencies. They will
be discussing both their future needs and technology development efforts
underway to meet those needs along with insight to their organizations plans
for the future. |
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12:10 - 14:00 |
Lunch | |
14:00 - 15:30 |
Room: Princes Ballroom Keynote 2: Communication and navigation services for lunar missions: the ESA Moonlight program, presenter, Pietro Giordano, Radio Navigation Department, ESA, The Netherlands. Lunar communication and navigation
services are more critical than ever before, as we prepare for an unprecedented
surge of lunar missions in the next decade. Over 200 missions are currently
planned to explore the Moon, from scientific research to human exploration and
institutional missions to commercial ventures. However, relying on dedicated
communication relay missions for each lunar mission is not sustainable.
Developing a robust communication and navigation infrastructure on the Moon is
essential to support these missions and unlock the full potential of lunar
exploration. This keynote will present the ESA Moonlight programme which aims
to provide communication and navigation services, by means of a dedicated lunar
satellite constellation. Moonlight will unlock the potential for future Lunar
missions, enabling more data through high-rate low latency communication,
better and safer landing and navigating capabilities and less on-board
complexity. |
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15:30 - 15:50 |
Coffee Break | |
15:50 - 17:30 |
Room: Princes Ballroom Plenary
Panel 2: 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) for Lunar Communications and
Navigation, chaired by Greg Heckler, Commercial Communications
Services Division Director, SCaN Program, NASA, USA. Under
NASA's Artemis program, plans are underway to send the first woman and first
person of color to the Moon within the next few years. Instead of solely
developing, building, and operating communication and navigation infrastructure
independently, NASA aims to collaborate extensively with commercial and
international partners. While most people on Earth are familiar with the 3rd
Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) 5G mobile telecommunications technology,
NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate and its Space Communications and
Navigation office envision a lunar communications and navigation network that
mirrors the cellular communication networks we use today. |
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19:30 |
Welcome Cocktail - Bradford, City Hall, UK. |
8:30 - 10:10 |
Room: Princes Ballroom Special
Session on 10 years of Alphasat Aldo Paraboni Q/V Band Experiment, Mission
Evolution and Results, chaired by Tommaso Rossi, University of Rome Tor
Vergata, Italy, and Giorgia Parca, ASI, Italy. The
pioneering position of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) in the analysis and
verification of Ka-band and Q/V band propagation, acquired though Sirio and
Italsat F1 missions, has been consolidated when ASI proposed to the European
Space Agency (ESA) to host an experimental payload in Q/V band on board the
Alphasat GEO satellite, successfully launched in July 2013. This payload (TDP5)
has been named Paraboni in honor of Professor Aldo Paraboni (1940-2013) of
Politecnico di Milano, pioneer of scientific research on the use of high frequencies
in satellite communications. In these last ten years University of Rome Tor
Vergata, Principal Investigator for ASI, and Johanneum Research, Principal
Investigator for ESA, have performed Q/V-band satellite communication
experiments with the objective to test and optimize system configurations,
adaptive transmission schemes and propagation impairments mitigation
techniques. The objective of this session is to gather papers form
experimenters, operators and manufacturers working in the field of extremely
high frequency (beyond Ka-band) satellite communications, in order to identify
an updated vision of the state of the art and define short and long term
scenarios. |
8:30 - 10:10 |
Room: Wyvern IC 1 - Non-Terrestrial Networks 1, Chair: Dilip S. Gokhale, Lockheed Martin Space, USA |
8:30 - 10:10 |
Room: Forster Suite IC 2 - Space Exploration & Services 1, Chair: Max Scardelletti, NASA, USA |
10:10 - 10:30 |
Coffee Break |
10:30 - 12:10 |
Room: Princes Ballroom BroadSky
Workshop (Part
1), chair Naoto Kadowaki, NICT,
Japan. A variety of activities related to Non-Terrestrial
Network (NTN) technologies for Beyond 5G/6G are being encouraged in many
projects around the world. These activities encompass not only communications
technologies, but also many other related technologies such as time synchronization
and the application of artificial intelligence (AI) for NTN. Business
activities to establish an ecosystem for Beyond 5G/6G, including NTN, are also
important. In this year’s BroadSky Workshop, we are focusing on various approaches
to these activities. |
10:30 - 12:10 |
Room: Forster Suite Ka 1 - Telecomm & Navigation for Space Exploration 1, Chair: Denise Ponchak,Teltrium, USA. |
10:30 - 12:10 |
Room: Wyvern IC 3 - Non-Terrestrial Networks 2, Chair: Dilip S. Gokhale, Lockheed Martin Space, USA |
10:30 - 12:10 |
Room: Pullman IC 4 - QKD and Secure Satellite Communications, Chair: Nafiz Karabudak, Lockheed Martin, USA |
12:10 - 14:00 |
LUNCH |
14:00 - 15:40 |
Room: Princes Ballroom BroadSky Workshop (Part 2), Chair: Naoto Kadowaki, NICT, Japan. |
14:00 - 15:40 |
Room: Forster Suite Ka 2 - Telecom & Navigation for Space Exploration 2, chair: Phil Liebrecht, Consultant, retired NASA, USA. |
14:00 - 15:40 |
Room: Wyvern IC 5 - Optical and High-Capacity Communications, Chair: Rob Singh, Axta Space Corp., USA |
14:00 - 15:40 |
Room: Irving 9th ASAPE (Part 1), Co-chairs: Carlo
Riva, Polytechnic of Milan, Italy and Antonio
Martellucci, ESA, The Netherlands. Future
broadband satellite communication systems shall offer terabit capacity and very
high data rates as requested by the current market both for broadcast and
multimedia applications. The goal is to offer satellite-based solutions
competitive to the ones provided by the terrestrial network, with in addition
the ability to reach directly any end user, whichever his location. This
requires the use of high carrier frequencies in the Ka or Q/V bands and beyond
in order to achieve the large bandwidth requested. |
14:00 - 15:40 |
Room: Pullman IC 6 - AI Based Techniques, Chair: Vuong Mai, University of Bradford, UK |
15:40 - 16:00 |
Coffee Break |
16:00 - 17:40 |
Room: Forster Suite Ka 3 - New Systems & Technology, Chair: Giuseppe Tomasicchio, Telespazio, Italy. |
16:00 - 17:40 |
Room: Irving 9th ASAPE (Part 2) - Co-chairs: Carlo Riva, Polytechnic of Milan, Italy, and Antonio Martellucci, ESA, The Netherlands. |
16:00 - 17:40 |
Room: Pullman IC 8 - Antennas, Chair: Rajeev Gopal, Hughes Network Systems, USA |
20:30 |
Conference Dinner and 2023
AIAA, Aerospace Communications Award - Midland Hotel |
8:30 - 10:10 |
Room: Princes Ballroom Panel Session on NASA Communication Services Project (CSP), Chaired by Peter J. Schemmel, Deputy Chief of Space Communications and Spectrum Management Office and Manager of Communications Services Project (CSP), NASA, USA. The NASA
Communication Services Project (CSP) is guiding NASA’s path to future
near-Earth space communications capabilities by tapping commercial satellite
service innovation to enable space missions of tomorrow. The agency is
partnering with six commercial satellite communications (SATCOM) providers as
they develop service offerings that can meet NASA’s as well as other
organizations’ changing requirements. In this panel session, CSP partner
organizations will discuss new opportunities for commercial SATCOM services and
missions. |
8:30 - 10:10 |
Room: Pullman Ka 5 - Payload Technology, Chair: Nafiz Karabudak, Lockheed Martin, USA |
8:30 - 10:10 |
Room: Forster Suite IC 9 - Satellite Networks, Chair: Masaaki Kojima, NHK Science & Technology Research Las., Japan. |
8:30 - 10:10 |
Room: Wyvern Ka 8 - Ground Systems & Networks, Chair: Thierry Abraham , Satixfy, Israel |
8:30 - 10:10 |
Room: Irving IC 10 - Interference/Fade Analysis and Mitigation, Chair: Christian Rohde, Fraunhofer IIS, Germany |
10:10 - 10:30 |
Coffee Break |
10:30 - 12:10 |
Room: Pullman Ka 6 - Propagation & Special Topics, Chair: James Nessel, NASA, USA and Carlo Riva, Polytechnic of Milan, Italy. |
10:30 - 12:10 |
Room: Forster Suite IC 11 - Satellite Payload & Receivers, Chairs: Glyn Thomas, Airbus Defence and Space, UK and Denise Ponchak, Teltrium Solutions, LLC, USA. |
10:30 - 12:10 |
Room: Wyvern Ka 9 - Analysis and Simulations, Chair: Naoto Kadowaki, NICT, Japan. |
10:30 - 12:10 |
Room: Irving IC 12 - Satellite System Protocols and Performance Analysis, Chair: Nader Alagha, ESA, The Netherlands |
12:10 - 14:00 |
Lunch |
14:00 - 15:40 |
Room: Pullman Ka 7 - Ground System & 5G Networks, Chair: Barry Evans, University of Surrey, UK |
14:00 - 15:40 |
Room: Forster Suite IC 13 - Geolocation and Emerging Techniques, Chair: Daichi HIrahara, JAXA, Japan |
14:00 - 15:40 |
Room: Wyvern Ka 10 - Q/V Technology, Chair: Michael Zemba, NASA, US. |
15:40 - 16:00 |
Coffee Break |
16:00 - 17:40 |
Room: Princes Ballroom Plenary
Panel 3: Non-Terrestrial Networks, Systems and Services from 5G to
6G, Chair: Barry
Evans, University of Surrey, UK. The Panel will consider the current phase of integrating satellites into 5G networks for both backhaul and direct to Hand-Helds. It will also consider the services and technologies that are needed for satellites in a uniform 6G network. Topics to be considered include the following: - NTN
services in 5G and 6G - Integration
of satellites into 5G networks – direct to terminal and backhaul - 3GPP
standards and applications - Spectrum
and co-existence - Role of
satellites in 6G-3D space networks
- 6G
technologies for 6G standards |
17:40 - 17:50 |
Room: Princes Ballroom ICSSC Best Paper Award by Ifiok Otung, 40th ICSSC Technical Chair. |
17:50 - 18:00 |
Room: Princes Ballroom Closing by Badri Younes and Rabindra
Singh, 28th Ka and Broadband Conference and 40th ICSSC Conference Chairs. |