Project full title
Path Awareness techNiques for Transport protocols over SATellite
ESA Programme
AO/1-11201/22/NL/EG – RE-ISSUE
ESA Contract no.: DTI/BID/027/023
Duration: 18 months
Starting Date: 18 Oct 2023
Expected Ending: 17 Apr 2025
Coordinator
Thales Alenia Space Italia (TAS-I)
Project Coordinator: Vincenzo Schena, TAS-I
Consortium
- Thales Alenia Space Italia (TAS-I)
- Consorzio per la Ricerca nell’Automatica e nelle Telecomunicazioni (CRAT)
- Research Institute of Sweden (RISE)
CRAT Key Persons
Dr. Giacinto Losquadro, Prof. Francesco Giacinto Lavacca, Prof. Marco Polverini, Dr. Andrea Wrona.
Project Description: Path Awareness Networking (PAN) is a networking concept that improves communication efficiency and reliability by understanding the data transmission path between endpoints. In satellite communications, PAN (or Satellite-Path Awareness Networking, S-PAN) optimizes data transmission between ground stations and satellites. S-PAN techniques involve real-time monitoring and historical analysis of communication links to enhance network resource optimization and cybersecurity, reducing latency and improving bandwidth use. The project aim is to design a PAN-based technical baseline for combined space-terrestrial networks, by identifying use cases and benchmark solutions. The identified solution will be tested using a demonstration framework both at laboratory and live satellite levels.