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keynote of Prof. Kota
Title: Satellite Communication Networking: Opportunities and Challenges
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September 8, 2005 Dr. Sastri L. Kota Senior Scientist Harris Corporation 1134 East Arques Avenue Sunnyvale, CA 94085 email:skota@harris.com |
ABSTRACT
During the past five decades, satellite communications due to features such as global coverage, bandwidth
flexibility, broadcast and multicast has played a major role in providing fixed and mobile services for
both voice and data applications. With the growing demand of multimedia services and the exponential growth
of the Internet, various broadband access technologies have been developed. Satellite communication has
been a viable alternative to such access technologies. e.g. ADSL, Cable and Optical fiber. Satellite also
plays a significant role in core networking for system of systems architectures. Although several
broadband satellite network initiatives became the victims of changing economic trends, new applications
such as support of email, fax and Internet access on airplanes, fast trains, during disaster recoveries
and tsunami warning systems dictate the development of converged satellite and wireless network
infrastructure.
In his keynote, Dr. Sastri Kota will address the satellite communications evolution and the current status of the GSO and NGSO network systems at different frequency bands, supporting multimedia and Internet access for fixed and mobile services. He will also provide an insight into IP based satellite networking and technical challenges that must still be addressed such as Quality- of- Service (QoS), multicast protocols, transport protocols and security. He will share his vision of the next wave of network architectures and possible technologies with emphasis on standards development to meet system interoperability requirements.
BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Sastri Kota is a Senior Scientist at Harris Corporation. During the past 30 years he held various
technical and management positions and made significant contributions to military and commercial satellite
communication systems. His research and development interests span the areas of broadband network
architectures-IP and ATM, protocol design and analysis, traffic management and QoS, satellite IP, wireless
and Mobile Ad Hoc networks, cross layer protocols and performance modeling at Loral Skynet, Lockheed Martin,
SRI International, Ford Aerospace, the MITRE Corp., Xerox Corp., and Computer Sciences Corp. He was on the
faculty of the Electronics and Communication Engineering Department of Indian Institute of Technology
(IIT), Roorkee. He is an active participant at various Standardization Organizations and Industry Forums;
ITU, IETF, ATM Forum, and TIA. Currently he is the US chair for the ITU-R, Working Party 4B and
International Rapporteur for Ka-Band Fixed Satellite Systems. He was the chair for the Wireless ATM
Working Group and ATM Forum Ambassador.
Dr. Kota is the principal author of the book Broadband Satellite Communication for Internet Access, Kluwer Academic Publishers, co-editor of the book Emerging Location Aware Broadband Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, Springer and has contributed book chapters to Encyclopedia of Telecommunications, John Wiley & Sons, High Performance TCP/IP Networking, Prentice Hall, and Modeling and Simulation Environment for Terrestrial and Satellite Networks, Kluwer Academic Publishers. He has published over 100 technical papers in journals or conference proceedings. He served as a guest editor for the IEEE Communications Magazine, Special Issues on Satellite ATM Architectures and Broadband Satellite Network Performance and International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking, Special Issue on Satellite IP QoS .He currently serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking (Wiley Interscience), and the Space Communications (IOS Press). He also served as technical chair, member of organizing committees and technical program committees of numerous IEEE, AIAA, SPIE and ACM conferences and workshops.
Dr. Kota received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Information Engineering from University Of Oulu, Finland, Electrical Engineer's Degree from Northeastern University, Boston, USA, M.S.E.E. from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, and B.S. in Telecommunications from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, India. He is the recipient of the Golden Quill Award from Harris Corporation (2004 and 2005) and the ATM Forum Spotlight Award. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, an Associate Fellow of AIAA, and a Member of ACM.