research-article

Open access

A Multifaceted Look at Starlink Performance

Authors:

Nitinder Mohan,

Andrew E. Ferguson,

Prakita Rayyan Renatin,

Mahesh K. Marina,

Jörg OttAuthors Info & Claims

WWW '24: Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2024

Pages 2723 - 2734

https://doi.org/10.1145/3589334.3645328

Published: 13 May 2024 Publication History

Abstract

The Starlink network from SpaceX stands out as the only commercial LEO network with over 2M+ customers and more than 4000 operational satellites. In this paper, we conduct a first-of-its-kind extensive multi-faceted analysis of Starlink performance leveraging several measurement sources. First, based on 19.2M crowdsourced M-Lab speed tests from 34 countries since 2021, we analyze Starlink global performance relative to terrestrial cellular networks. Second, we examine Starlink's ability to support real-time latency and bandwidth-critical applications by analyzing the performance of (i) Zoom conferencing, and (ii) Luna cloud gaming, comparing it to 5G and fiber. Third, we perform measurements from Starlink-enabled RIPE Atlas probes to shed light on the last-mile access and other factors affecting its performance.Finally, we conduct controlled experiments from Starlink dishes in two countries and analyze the impact of globally synchronized "15-second reconfiguration intervals'' of the satellite links that cause substantial latency and throughput variations. Our unique analysis paints the most comprehensive picture of Starlink's global and last-mile performance to date.

Supplemental Material

MP4 File

presentation video

Download
1478.32 MB

MP4 File

Supplemental video

Download
297.00 MB

References

[1]

Richelle Adams. 2012. Active queue management: A survey. IEEE communications surveys & tutorials, Vol. 15, 3 (2012), 1425--1476.

[2]

Amazon. 2023. Luna Cloud Gaming. https://luna.amazon.com/.

[3]

Todd Arnold, Ege Gürmeriçliler, Georgia Essig, Arpit Gupta, Matt Calder, Vasileios Giotsas, and Ethan Katz-Bassett. 2020. (How Much) Does a Private WAN Improve Cloud Performance?. In IEEE INFOCOM 2020 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications. 79--88. https://doi.org/10.1109/INFOCOM41043.2020.9155428

Digital Library

[4]

Alan Boyle. 2019. Amazon to offer broadband access from orbit with 3,236-satellite `Project Kuiper' constellation. https://www.geekwire.com/2019/amazon-project-kuiper-broadband-satellite/. Accessed: 2023-05--26.

[5]

Shkelzen Cakaj. 2021. The parameters comparison of the ?Starlink" LEO satellites constellation for different orbital shells. Frontiers in Communications and Networks, Vol. 2 (2021), 643095.

[6]

Case No. 2021-00002. 2021. Application of Starlink Services. https://psc.ky.gov/pscecf/2021-00002/kerry.ingle%40dinslaw.com/01042021010318/Application_-_Designation_as_ETC.PDF Accessed on 2023-05--24.

[7]

Hyunseok Chang, Matteo Varvello, Fang Hao, and Sarit Mukherjee. 2021. Can You See Me Now? A Measurement Study of Zoom, Webex, and Meet. In Proceedings of the 21st ACM Internet Measurement Conference (Virtual Event) (IMC '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 216--228. https://doi.org/10.1145/3487552.3487847

Digital Library

[8]

Yi-Ching Chiu, Brandon Schlinker, Abhishek Balaji Radhakrishnan, Ethan Katz-Bassett, and Ramesh Govindan. 2015. Are We One Hop Away from a Better Internet?. In Proceedings of the 2015 Internet Measurement Conference (Tokyo, Japan) (IMC '15). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, bibinfonumpages7 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/2815675.2815719

Digital Library

[9]

Lorenzo Corneo, Maximilian Eder, Nitinder Mohan, Aleksandr Zavodovski, Suzan Bayhan, Walter Wong, Per Gunningberg, Jussi Kangasharju, and Jörg Ott. 2021. Surrounded by the Clouds: A Comprehensive Cloud Reachability Study. In Proceedings of the Web Conference 2021 (Ljubljana, Slovenia) (WWW '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 295--304. https://doi.org/10.1145/3442381.3449854

Digital Library

[10]

The Khang Dang, Nitinder Mohan, Lorenzo Corneo, Aleksandr Zavodovski, Jörg Ott, and Jussi Kangasharju. 2021. Cloudy with a Chance of Short RTTs: Analyzing Cloud Connectivity in the Internet. In Proceedings of the 21st ACM Internet Measurement Conference (Virtual Event) (IMC '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 62--79. https://doi.org/10.1145/3487552.3487854

Digital Library

[11]

Johan Garcia, Simon Sundberg, Giuseppe Caso, and Anna Brunstrom. 2023. Multi-Timescale Evaluation of Starlink Throughput. In Proceedings of the 1st ACM Workshop on LEO Networking and Communication (Madrid, Spain) (LEO-NET '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 31--36. https://doi.org/10.1145/3614204.3616108

Digital Library

[12]

Phillipa Gill, Christophe Diot, Lai Yi Ohlsen, Matt Mathis, and Stephen Soltesz. 2022. M-Lab: User Initiated Internet Data for the Research Community. SIGCOMM Comput. Commun. Rev., Vol. 52, 1 (mar 2022), 34--37. https://doi.org/10.1145/3523230.3523236

Digital Library

[13]

Carlo Augusto Grazia, Natale Patriciello, Martin Klapez, and Maurizio Casoni. 2017. Mitigating congestion and bufferbloat on satellite networks through a rate-based AQM. In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC). 1--6. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2017.7996776

[14]

Bin Hu, Xumiao Zhang, Qixin Zhang, Nitin Varyani, Z. Morley Mao, Feng Qian, and Zhi-Li Zhang. 2023. LEO Satellite vs. Cellular Networks: Exploring the Potential for Synergistic Integration. In Companion of the 19th International Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (, Paris, France,) (CoNEXT 2023). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 45--51. https://doi.org/10.1145/3624354.3630588

Digital Library

[15]

Business Insider. 2023. Everything we know about Elon Musk's Starlink satellites and future internet plans. https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-starlink-satellites-internet Accessed: 2023--10--12.

[16]

iperf. 2023. iperf / iperf3. https://iperf.fr/.

[17]

Hassan Iqbal, Ayesha Khalid, and Muhammad Shahzad. 2021. Dissecting Cloud Gaming Performance with DECAF. Proc. ACM Meas. Anal. Comput. Syst., Vol. 5, 3, Article 31 (dec 2021), bibinfonumpages27 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491043

Digital Library

[18]

Jayasuryan V Iyer, Khasim Shaheed Shaik Mahammad, Yashodhan Dandekar, Ramakrishna Akella, Chen Chen, Phillip E Barber, and Peter J Worters. 2022. System and method of providing a medium access control scheduler. US Patent 11,540,301.

[19]

Liz Izhikevich, Manda Tran, Katherine Izhikevich, Gautam Akiwate, and Zakir Durumeric. 2024. Democratizing LEO Satellite Network Measurement. https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.07469

[20]

Akshath Jain, Deepayan Patra, Peijing Xu, Justine Sherry, and Phillipa Gill. 2022. The Ukrainian Internet under Attack: An NDT Perspective. In Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Internet Measurement Conference (Nice, France) (IMC '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 166--178. https://doi.org/10.1145/3517745.3561449

Digital Library

[21]

Amritha Jayanti. 2023. Starlink and the Russia-Ukraine War: A Case of Commercial Technology and Public Purpose? https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/starlink-and-russia-ukraine-war-case-commercial-technology-and-public-purpose.

[22]

Yubing Jian, Mohit Agarwal, Shyam Krishnan Venkateswaran, Yuchen Liu, Douglas M. Blough, and Raghupathy Sivakumar. 2020. WiMove: Toward Infrastructure Mobility in MmWave WiFi. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access (Alicante, Spain) (MobiWac '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 11--20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3416012.3424625

Digital Library

[23]

Haiqing Jiang, Zeyu Liu, Yaogong Wang, Kyunghan Lee, and Injong Rhee. 2012. Understanding Bufferbloat in Cellular Networks. In Proceedings of the 2012 ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Cellular Networks: Operations, Challenges, and Future Design (Helsinki, Finland) (CellNet '12). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1--6. https://doi.org/10.1145/2342468.2342470

Digital Library

[24]

Yuchen Jin, Sundararajan Renganathan, Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Junchen Jiang, Venkata N. Padmanabhan, Manuel Schroder, Matt Calder, and Arvind Krishnamurthy. 2019. Zooming in on Wide-Area Latencies to a Global Cloud Provider. In Proceedings of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (Beijing, China) (SIGCOMM '19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, bibinfonumpages13 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3341302.3342073

Digital Library

[25]

Mohamed M. Kassem, Aravindh Raman, Diego Perino, and Nishanth Sastry. 2022. A Browser-Side View of Starlink Connectivity. In Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Internet Measurement Conference (Nice, France) (IMC '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 151--158. https://doi.org/10.1145/3517745.3561457

Digital Library

[26]

Simon Kassing, Debopam Bhattacherjee, André Baptista Águas, Jens Eirik Saethre, and Ankit Singla. 2020. Exploring the "Internet from Space" with Hypatia. In Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (Virtual Event, USA) (IMC '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 214--229. https://doi.org/10.1145/3419394.3423635

Digital Library

[27]

Dr. T.S. Kelso. 2023. CelesTrak. https://celestrak.org/ Accessed: 2023--10--12.

[28]

Gunther Krebs. 2021. Starlink Block v1.0. https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/starlink-v1-0.htm.

[29]

Measurement Lab. 2023 a. M-Lab to the Cloud. https://www.measurementlab.net/blog/virtual-sites-gcp.

[30]

Measurement Lab. 2023 b. Measurement Lab Infrastructure. https://www.measurementlab.net/status/.

[31]

Zeqi Lai, Hewu Li, Yangtao Deng, Qian Wu, Jun Liu, Yuanjie Li, Jihao Li, Lixin Liu, Weisen Liu, and Jianping Wu. 2023. StarryNet: Empowering Researchers to Evaluate Futuristic Integrated Space and Terrestrial Networks. In 20th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 23). USENIX Association, Boston, MA, 1309--1324. https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi23/presentation/lai-zeqi

[32]

Ang Li, Xiaowei Yang, Srikanth Kandula, and Ming Zhang. 2010. CloudCmp: Comparing Public Cloud Providers. In Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGCOMM Conference on Internet Measurement (Melbourne, Australia) (IMC '10). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, bibinfonumpages14 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/1879141.1879143

Digital Library

[33]

Yuanjie Li, Hewu Li, Wei Liu, Lixin Liu, Wei Zhao, Yimei Chen, Jianping Wu, Qian Wu, Jun Liu, Zeqi Lai, and Han Qiu. 2023. A Networking Perspective on Starlink's Self-Driving LEO Mega-Constellation. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3570361.3592519

Digital Library

[34]

Matthew Luckie, Bradley Huffaker, Alexander Marder, Zachary Bischof, Marianne Fletcher, and K Claffy. 2021. Learning to Extract Geographic Information from Internet Router Hostnames. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (Virtual Event, Germany) (CoNEXT '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 440--453. https://doi.org/10.1145/3485983.3494869

Digital Library

[35]

Melisa López, Sebastian Bro Damsgaard, Ignacio Rodríguez, and Preben Mogensen. 2022--12. An Empirical Analysis of Multi-Connectivity between 5G Terrestrial and LEO Satellite Networks. In 2022 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps). IEEE, 1115--1120. https://doi.org/10.1109/GCWkshps56602.2022.10008752

[36]

Sami Ma, Yi Ching Chou, Haoyuan Zhao, Long Chen, Xiaoqiang Ma, and Jiangchuan Liu. 2022--12--28. Network Characteristics of LEO Satellite Constellations: A Starlink-Based Measurement from End Users. (2022--12--28). showeprint[arXiv]2212.13697 [cs.NI]

[37]

Tarun Mangla, Udit Paul, Arpit Gupta, Nicole P. Marwell, and Nick Feamster. 2022. Internet Inequity in Chicago: Adoption, Affordability, and Availability. In Elsevier SSRN. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4182994

[38]

Jonathan C. McDowell. 2023. Jonathan's Space Pages: StarlinkStatistics. https://planet4589.org/space/con/star/stats.html. Accessed: 2023--10.

[39]

Measurement Lab. (2009-02--11 -- 2015--12--21). The M-Lab NDT Data Set. https://measurementlab.net/tests/ndt.

[40]

Franccois Michel, Martino Trevisan, Danilo Giordano, and Olivier Bonaventure. 2022b. A First Look at Starlink Performance. In Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Internet Measurement Conference (Nice, France) (IMC '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 130--136. https://doi.org/10.1145/3517745.3561416

Digital Library

[41]

Oliver Michel, Satadal Sengupta, Hyojoon Kim, Ravi Netravali, and Jennifer Rexford. 2022a. Enabling passive measurement of zoom performance in production networks. In Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Internet Measurement Conference (Nice, France) (IMC '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 244--260. https://doi.org/10.1145/3517745.3561414

Digital Library

[42]

Nitinder Mohan, Lorenzo Corneo, Aleksandr Zavodovski, Suzan Bayhan, Walter Wong, and Jussi Kangasharju. 2020. Pruning Edge Research with Latency Shears. In Proceedings of the 19th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (Virtual Event, USA) (HotNets '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 182--189. https://doi.org/10.1145/3422604.3425943

Digital Library

[43]

Nitinder Mohan, Andrew Ferguson, Hendrik Cech, Prakita Rayyan Renatin, Rohan Bose, Mahesh Marina, and Jörg Ott. 2023. Top-3 Mobile Network Operators. https://github.com/nitindermohan/multifaceted-starlink-performance/blob/main/mno_related/mno_list_withasn.csv.

[44]

Nitinder Mohan, Andrew Ferguson, Hendrik Cech, Prakita Rayyan Renatin, Rohan Bose, Mahesh Marina, and Jörg Ott. 2024 a. A Multifaceted Look at Starlink Performance: Code. https://github.com/nitindermohan/multifaceted-starlink-performance

[45]

Nitinder Mohan, Andrew Ferguson, Hendrik Cech, Prakita Rayyan Renatin, Rohan Bose, Mahesh Marina, and Jörg Ott. 2024 b. A Multifaceted Look at Starlink Performance: Dataset. https://doi.org/10.14459/2024mp1734703

[46]

Arvind Narayanan, Eman Ramadan, Jason Carpenter, Qingxu Liu, Yu Liu, Feng Qian, and Zhi-Li Zhang. 2020. A First Look at Commercial 5G Performance on Smartphones. In Proceedings of The Web Conference 2020 (Taipei, Taiwan) (WWW '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 894--905. https://doi.org/10.1145/3366423.3380169

Digital Library

[47]

Arvind Narayanan, Xumiao Zhang, Ruiyang Zhu, Ahmad Hassan, Shuowei Jin, Xiao Zhu, Xiaoxuan Zhang, Denis Rybkin, Zhengxuan Yang, Zhuoqing Morley Mao, Feng Qian, and Zhi-Li Zhang. 2021. A Variegated Look at 5G in the Wild: Performance, Power, and QoE Implications. In Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGCOMM 2021 Conference (Virtual Event, USA) (SIGCOMM '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 610--625. https://doi.org/10.1145/3452296.3472923

Digital Library

[48]

TWiT Tech Podcast Network. 2021. Dave Taht To Elon Musk: 'We are gonna fix bufferbloat' . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9gLo6Xrwgw

[49]

Rehan Noordally, Xavier Nicolay, Pascal Anelli, Richard Lorion, and Pierre Ugo Tournoux. 2016. Analysis of Internet Latency: The Reunion Island Case. In Proceedings of the 12th Asian Internet Engineering Conference (Bangkok, Thailand) (AINTEC '16). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 49--56. https://doi.org/10.1145/3012695.3012702

Digital Library

[50]

OneWeb. 2023. OneWeb: Connect with Ease. https://oneweb.net/connect_with_ease. Accessed: 2023-05--26.

[51]

Nathan Owens. 2023. Unofficial Crowdsourced Starlink Global Gateways & PoPs. https://bit.ly/3tykCGW. Accessed: 2023-05-03.

[52]

Jianping Pan, Jinwei Zhao, and Lin Cai. 2023. Measuring a Low-Earth-Orbit Satellite Network. In 2023 IEEE 34th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC). 1--6. https://doi.org/10.1109/PIMRC56721.2023.10294034

[53]

Udit Paul, Jiamo Liu, David Farias-llerenas, Vivek Adarsh, Arpit Gupta, and Elizabeth Belding. 2022a. Characterizing Internet Access and Quality Inequities in California M-Lab Measurements. In ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS) (Seattle, WA, USA) (COMPASS '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 257--265. https://doi.org/10.1145/3530190.3534813

Digital Library

[54]

Udit Paul, Jiamo Liu, Mengyang Gu, Arpit Gupta, and Elizabeth Belding. 2022b. The Importance of Contextualization of Crowdsourced Active Speed Test Measurements. In Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Internet Measurement Conference (Nice, France) (IMC '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 274--289. https://doi.org/10.1145/3517745.3561441

Digital Library

[55]

Pete Heist. 2023. irtt (Isochronous Round-Trip Tester). https://github.com/heistp/irtt.

[56]

Stephen R. Pratt, Richard A. Raines, Carl E. Fossa, and Michael A. Temple. 1999. An operational and performance overview of the IRIDIUM low earth orbit satellite system. IEEE Communications Surveys, Vol. 2, 2 (1999), 2--10. https://doi.org/10.1109/COMST.1999.5340513 Conference Name: IEEE Communications Surveys.

Digital Library

[57]

Mike Puchol. 2023. Starlink Coverage Tracker. https://starlink.sx/ Accessed: 2023--10--12.

[58]

Aravindh Raman, Matteo Varvello, Hyunseok Chang, Nishanth Sastry, and Yasir Zaki. 2023. Dissecting the Performance of Satellite Network Operators. Proc. ACM Netw., Vol. 1, CoNEXT3, Article 15 (nov 2023), bibinfonumpages25 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3629137

Digital Library

[59]

RIPE. 2023. RIPE Atlas. https://atlas.ripe.net/.

[60]

Via Satellite. 2023. Starlink Surpasses 2 Million Subscribers. https://bit.ly/3rDop5y.

[61]

Ankit Singla. 2021. SatNetLab: A Call to Arms for the next Global Internet Testbed. SIGCOMM Comput. Commun. Rev., Vol. 51, 2 (may 2021), 28--30. https://doi.org/10.1145/3464994.3465000

Digital Library

[62]

SpaceX. 2016. SPACEX NON-GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE SYSTEM. https://fcc.report/IBFS/SAT-LOA-20161115-00118/1158350.pdf.

[63]

SpaceX. 2019. SPACEX NON-GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE SYSTEM. https://fcc.report/IBFS/SAT-MOD-20190830-00087/1877671.

[64]

SpaceX. 2021. PETITION OF STARLINK SERVICES, LLC FOR DESIGNATION AS AN ELIGIBLE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CARRIER. https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/search-filings/filing/1020316268311.

[65]

sparky8512. 2023. starlink-grpc-tools. https://github.com/sparky8512/starlink-grpc-tools.

[66]

Starlink. 2023 a. Starlink. https://www.starlink.com. Accessed: 2023-05--26.

[67]

Starlink. 2023 b. Starlink Direct to Cell. https://direct.starlink.com/ Accessed: 2023--10--12.

[68]

Starlink. 2023 c. Starlink Fair Use Policy. https://www.starlink.com/legal/documents/DOC-1134--82708--70.

[69]

Starlink. 2023 d. Starlink Location IP Mapping. https://geoip.starlinkisp.net/feed.csv.

[70]

Starlink. 2023 e. Starlink maritime. https://www.starlink.com/maritime.

[71]

Starlink-Admins. 2023. Starlink Mailing List. https://lists.bufferbloat.net/pipermail/starlink/. Accessed: 2024-02-01.

[72]

LLC Starlink Services. 2021. Petition of Starlink Services, LLC for Designation as an Eligible Telecommunications Carrier. Submitted to the Department of Telecommunications and Cable, Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

[73]

Aryan Taneja, Debopam Bhattacherjee, Saikat Guha, and Venkata N. Padmanabhan. 2023. On viewing SpaceX Starlink through the Social Media Lens. arxiv: 2307.13441 [cs.NI]

[74]

Hammas Bin Tanveer, Mike Puchol, Rachee Singh, Antonio Bianchi, and Rishab Nithyanand. 2023. Making Sense of Constellations: Methodologies for Understanding Starlink's Scheduling Algorithms. In Companion of the 19th International Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (, Paris, France,) (CoNEXT 2023). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 37--43. https://doi.org/10.1145/3624354.3630586

Digital Library

[75]

Elon Musk Twitter. 2023 a. Starlink Inter-Satellite Links. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1535394359373443073?lang=en.

[76]

Starlink Twitter. 2023 b. Starlink Twitter inter-satellite link announcement. https://twitter.com/Starlink/status/1706718537711337650.

[77]

Wikipedia. 2023. Starlink. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink.

[78]

Bahador Yeganeh, Ramakrishnan Durairajan, Reza Rejaie, and Walter Willinger. 2020. A First Comparative Characterization of Multi-cloud Connectivity in Today's Internet. In International Conference on Passive and Active Network Measurement. Springer, 193--210.

[79]

Haoyuan Zhao, Hao Fang, Feng Wang, and Jiangchuan Liu. 2023. Realtime Multimedia Services over Starlink: A Reality Check. In Proceedings of the 33rd Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video (Vancouver, BC, Canada) (NOSSDAV '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 43--49. https://doi.org/10.1145/3592473.3592562

Digital Library

Cited By

Zhang LGuo ZSu HZhao W(2025)CAAST: Optimizing data communications in satellite networks through Cache and AnycastComputer Networks10.1016/j.comnet.2025.111066259(111066)Online publication date: Mar-2025
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2025.111066
Garcia JBeckerle MSundberg SBrunstrom A(2025)Modeling and predicting starlink throughput with fine-grained burst characterizationComputer Communications10.1016/j.comcom.2025.108090234(108090)Online publication date: Mar-2025
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comcom.2025.108090
Liu DXu CLi YSong ALi JJin KLuo XWei K(2024)Laser Phase Noise Compensation Method Based on Dual Reference Channels in Inverse Synthetic Aperture LidarRemote Sensing10.3390/rs1701003017:1(30)Online publication date: 26-Dec-2024
https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17010030
Show More Cited By

Index Terms

A Multifaceted Look at Starlink Performance
1. Networks
  1. Network performance evaluation
    1. Network measurement

Recommendations

Making Sense of Constellations: Methodologies for Understanding Starlink's Scheduling Algorithms
CoNEXT 2023: Companion of the 19th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies

Starlink constellations are currently the largest LEO WAN and have seen considerable interest from the research community. In this paper, we use high-frequency and high-fidelity measurements to uncover evidence of hierarchical traffic controllers in ...
A Networking Perspective on Starlink's Self-Driving LEO Mega-Constellation
ACM MobiCom '23: Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking

Low-earth-orbit (LEO) satellite mega-constellations, such as SpaceX Starlink, are under rocket-fast deployments and promise broadband Internet to remote areas that terrestrial networks cannot reach. For mission safety and sustainable uses of space, ...
A first look at starlink performance
IMC '22: Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Internet Measurement Conference

With new Low Earth Orbit satellite constellations such as Starlink, satellite-based Internet access is becoming an alternative to traditional fixed and wireless technologies with comparable throughputs and latencies. In this paper, we investigate the ...

Comments

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

cover image ACM Conferences

WWW '24: Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2024

May 2024

4826 pages

ISBN:9798400701719

DOI:10.1145/3589334

General Chairs:
Tat-Seng Chua
National University of Singapore
,
Chong-Wah Ngo
Singapore Management University
,
Proceedings Chair:
Roy Ka-Wei Lee
Singapore University of Technology and Design
,
Program Chairs:
Ravi Kumar
Google
,
Hady W. Lauw
Singapore Management University

Copyright © 2024 ACM.

Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than the author(s) must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected].

Sponsors

SIGWEB: ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Web

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

Publication History

Published: 13 May 2024

Permissions

Request permissions for this article.

Request Permissions

Check for updates

Badges

Artifacts Available / v1.1

Author Tags

Qualifiers

Research-article

Funding Sources

Federal Ministry of Education and Research Germany
Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport Germany

Conference

WWW '24

Sponsor:

SIGWEB

WWW '24: The ACM Web Conference 2024

May 13 - 17, 2024

Singapore, Singapore

Acceptance Rates

Overall Acceptance Rate 1,899 of 8,196 submissions, 23%

Contributors

Other Metrics

View Article Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

27
Total Citations
View Citations
5,013
Total Downloads

Downloads (Last 12 months)5,013
Downloads (Last 6 weeks)721

Reflects downloads up to 16 Feb 2025

Other Metrics

View Author Metrics

Citations

Cited By

Zhang LGuo ZSu HZhao W(2025)CAAST: Optimizing data communications in satellite networks through Cache and AnycastComputer Networks10.1016/j.comnet.2025.111066259(111066)Online publication date: Mar-2025
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2025.111066
Garcia JBeckerle MSundberg SBrunstrom A(2025)Modeling and predicting starlink throughput with fine-grained burst characterizationComputer Communications10.1016/j.comcom.2025.108090234(108090)Online publication date: Mar-2025
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comcom.2025.108090
Liu DXu CLi YSong ALi JJin KLuo XWei K(2024)Laser Phase Noise Compensation Method Based on Dual Reference Channels in Inverse Synthetic Aperture LidarRemote Sensing10.3390/rs1701003017:1(30)Online publication date: 26-Dec-2024
https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17010030
Bojor LPetrache TCristescu C(2024)Emerging Technologies in Conflict: The Impact of Starlink in the Russia – Ukraine WarLand Forces Academy Review10.2478/raft-2024-002029:2(185-194)Online publication date: 26-Jun-2024
https://doi.org/10.2478/raft-2024-0020
Laniewski DLanfer EBeginn SDunker JDückers MAschenbruck N(2024)Starlink on the Road: A First Look at Mobile Starlink Performance in Central Europe2024 8th Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA)10.23919/TMA62044.2024.10559110(1-8)Online publication date: 21-May-2024
https://doi.org/10.23919/TMA62044.2024.10559110
Laniewski DLanfer EMeijerink Bvan Rijswijk-Deij RAschenbruck N(2024)WetLinks: A Large-Scale Longitudinal Starlink Dataset with Contiguous Weather Data2024 8th Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA)10.23919/TMA62044.2024.10558998(1-9)Online publication date: 21-May-2024
https://doi.org/10.23919/TMA62044.2024.10558998
Kassem MSastry N(2024)$x$eoverse: A Real-time Simulation Platform for Large LEO Satellite Mega-Constellations2024 IFIP Networking Conference (IFIP Networking)10.23919/IFIPNetworking62109.2024.10619898(1-9)Online publication date: 3-Jun-2024
https://doi.org/10.23919/IFIPNetworking62109.2024.10619898
Bhosale VGavrilovska ABhardwaj K(2024)Krios: Scheduling Abstractions and Mechanisms for Enabling a LEO Compute CloudProceedings of the 2024 ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing10.1145/3698038.3698566(322-340)Online publication date: 20-Nov-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3698038.3698566
Pfandzelter TBermbach D(2024)Komet: A Serverless Platform for Low-Earth Orbit Edge ServicesProceedings of the 2024 ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing10.1145/3698038.3698517(866-882)Online publication date: 20-Nov-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3698038.3698517
Hammer SAddanki VFranke MSchmid S(2024)Starlink Performance through the Edge Router LensProceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on LEO Networking and Communication10.1145/3697253.3697273(67-72)Online publication date: 18-Nov-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3697253.3697273
Show More Cited By

View Options

View options

PDF

View or Download as a PDF file.

eReader

View online with eReader.

Login options

Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

Full Access

Get this Publication

Figures

Tables

Media

View Table of Conten