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Papers are grouped by publication venue and ordered by year. Topic tags connect this index to the topic view in the main README.

Venues: SIGCOMM · NSDI · MobiCom · INFOCOM · HotNets · S&P (IEEE Security & Privacy) · CCS · NDSS · USENIX Security · WiSec · IWQoS · CoNEXT · ICNP · IMC · WWW · MM · SIGMETRICS · SenSys · MobiSys · USENIX ATC · Other

SIGCOMM · 12 papers

CommSAR: Enabling Bidirectional Communication in SAR Imaging Satellites via Shared Waveform — SIGCOMM 2026 · Physical Layer · Ground Segment
Planet-Scale IoT Connectivity via LEO Satellites — SIGCOMM 2026 · Satellite IoT · Measurement
Dissecting the StarLink: Characterizing Queuing and Flow Dynamics in the Starlink Network — SIGCOMM 2026 · Measurement · Transport
Achieving Efficient Storage and Communication via Collaboration — SIGCOMM 2026 · Space Computing · Sensing · Resource Management
Small-scale LEO Satellite Networking for Global-scale Demands — SIGCOMM 2025 · Topology
Direct-to-Cell Satellite Network without Satellite Navigation — SIGCOMM 2025 · Direct-to-Cell
DeepSpace: Super Resolution Powered Efficient and Reliable Satellite Image Data Acquisition — SIGCOMM 2025 · Space Computing · Sensing
SaTE: Low-Latency Traffic Engineering for Satellite Networks — SIGCOMM 2025 · Routing
LeoCC: Making Internet Congestion Control Robust to LEO Satellite Dynamics — SIGCOMM 2025 · Transport
StarCDN: Moving Content Delivery Networks to Space — SIGCOMM 2025 · Content Delivery
A Case for Stateless Mobile Core Network Functions in Space — SIGCOMM 2022 · Architecture · Direct-to-Cell
L2D2: Low Latency Distributed Downlink for Low Earth Orbit Satellites — SIGCOMM 2021 · Ground Segment

NSDI · 4 papers

Democratizing Direct-to-Cell Low Earth Orbit Satellite Networks — NSDI 2024 · 🏆 Outstanding Paper Award · Direct-to-Cell
Known Knowns and Unknowns: Near-realtime Earth Observation Via Query Bifurcation in Serval — NSDI 2024 · Space Computing · Sensing
Spectrumize: Spectrum-efficient Satellite Networks for the Internet of Things — NSDI 2024 · Physical Layer · Satellite IoT
StarryNet: Empowering Researchers to Evaluate Futuristic Integrated Space and Terrestrial Networks — NSDI 2023 · Experimental Platforms

MobiCom · 12 papers

SpaceSched: A Constellation-Wide Scheduling System for Resolving Ground Track Congestion in Remote Sensing — MobiCom 2025 · Resource Management · Sensing
B2LoRa: Boosting LoRa Transmission for Satellite-IoT Systems with Blind Coherent Combining — MobiCom 2025 · Physical Layer · Satellite IoT
Stable Hierarchical Routing for Operational LEO Networks — MobiCom 2024 · Routing
SateRIoT: High-performance Ground-Space Networking for Rural IoT — MobiCom 2024 · Satellite IoT
CosMAC: Constellation-Aware Medium Access and Scheduling for IoT Satellites — MobiCom 2024 · Resource Management · Physical Layer · Satellite IoT
Deciphering the Enigma of Satellite Computing with COTS Devices: Measurement and Analysis — MobiCom 2024 · Measurement · Space Computing
A Networking Perspective on Starlink’s Self-Driving LEO Mega-Constellation — MobiCom 2023 · Architecture
Transmitting, Fast and Slow: Scheduling Satellite Traffic through Space and Time — MobiCom 2023 · Resource Management
UbiPose: Towards Ubiquitous Outdoor AR Pose Tracking using Aerial Meshes — MobiCom 2023 · Sensing
PMSat: Optimizing Passive Metasurface for Low Earth Orbit Satellite Communication — MobiCom 2023 · Physical Layer
A community-driven approach to democratize access to satellite ground stations — MobiCom 2021 · Ground Segment · Experimental Platforms
Hummingbird: Energy Efficient GPS Receiver for Small Satellites — MobiCom 2020 · Physical Layer

INFOCOM · 42 papers

Seamless Inter-Constellation Sharing via Handover-Aware Space-Ground Association — INFOCOM 2026 · Architecture · Mobility · Resource Management
PMPS: Predictive Multi-Path Scheduling for Handover-Free LEO Communications — INFOCOM 2026 · Routing · Mobility · Resource Management
A Large-Scale IPv6-Based Measurement of the Starlink Network — INFOCOM 2026 · Measurement
Faster Exploration and Exploitation for Communication Environment Awareness in Starlink — INFOCOM 2026 · Measurement
The Invisible Hand: Regaining Control of Service Quality from Outsourced Satellite Networks — INFOCOM 2026 · Architecture
Joint Optimization of Handoff and Video Rate in LEO Satellite Networks — INFOCOM 2026 · Mobility · Content Delivery
Optimal Oblivious Load-Balancing for Sparse Traffic in Large-Scale Satellite Networks — INFOCOM 2026 · Routing
SigHitching: Efficient Non-Broadcast Paging in Direct-to-Cell LEO Satellite Networks — INFOCOM 2026 · Direct-to-Cell
KubeSpace: A Low-Latency and Stable Control Plane for LEO Satellite Container Orchestration — INFOCOM 2026 · Mobility · Resource Management · Space Computing
DS-Route: GNN-based Flow-Level Latency Prediction in Software-Defined LEO Satellite Networks — INFOCOM 2026 · Routing
Satellites are closer than you think: A near field MIMO approach for satellite ground stations — INFOCOM 2026 · Ground Segment · Physical Layer
Enabling Efficient Transmission of Satellite-to-Ground Downlinks via Throughput Prediction — INFOCOM 2026 · Ground Segment
LEO Satellite Network Orchestration with Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks — INFOCOM 2026 · Resource Management
Oracle: QoS-Aware Online Service Provisioning in Non-Terrestrial Networks with Safe Transfer Learning — INFOCOM 2025 · Resource Management · Space Computing
NovaPlan: An Efficient Plan of Renting Ground Stations for Emerging LEO Satellite Networks — INFOCOM 2025 · Ground Segment
Commercial Dishes Can Be My Ladder: Sustainable and Collaborative Data Offloading in LEO Satellite Networks — INFOCOM 2025 · Ground Segment
Learning to Accelerate Traffic Allocation over Large-Scale Networks — INFOCOM 2025 · Resource Management
QuESat: Satellite-Assisted Quantum Internet for Global-Scale Entanglement Distribution — INFOCOM 2025 · Architecture
Distributed On-Orbit Sparse Coding for Efficient Space Situational Awareness Image Transmission — INFOCOM 2025 · Space Computing · Sensing
StableRoute: When Dijkstra’s Algorithm Meets Topology-Varying Satellite Networks — INFOCOM 2025 · Routing
SkyOctopus: Enabling Low-Latency Mobile Satellite Network through Multiple Anchors — INFOCOM 2025 · Mobility · Direct-to-Cell
Constructing 4D Radio Map in LEO Satellite Networks with Limited Samples — INFOCOM 2025 · Sensing
Minimum-hop Constellation Design for Low Earth Orbit Satellite Networks — INFOCOM 2025 · Topology
Time-Dependent Network Topology Optimization for LEO Satellite Constellations — INFOCOM 2025 · Topology
SatPipe: Deterministic TCP Adaptation for Highly Dynamic LEO Satellite Networks — INFOCOM 2025 · Transport
QCode: Achieving High Capacity in Uncoordinated Access Channels (UCACH) of Broadband Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Satellite Networks — INFOCOM 2025 · Physical Layer
Resource-efficient In-orbit Detection of Earth Objects — INFOCOM 2024 · Resource Management · Space Computing · Sensing
SKYCASTLE: Taming LEO Mobility to Facilitate Seamless and Low-latency Satellite Internet Services — INFOCOM 2024 · Mobility
Your Mega-Constellations Can Be Slim: A Cost-Effective Approach for Constructing Survivable and Performant LEO Satellite Networks — INFOCOM 2024 · Topology · Reliability
Accelerating Handover in Mobile Satellite Network — INFOCOM 2024 · Mobility
SECO: Multi-Satellite Edge Computing Enabled Wide-Area and Real-Time Earth Observation Missions — INFOCOM 2024 · Space Computing · Sensing
In-Orbit Processing or Not? Sunlight-Aware Task Scheduling for Energy-Efficient Space Edge Computing Networks — INFOCOM 2024 · Resource Management · Space Computing
Achieving Resilient and Performance-Guaranteed Routing in Space-Terrestrial Integrated Networks — INFOCOM 2023 · Routing
Network Characteristics of LEO Satellite Constellations: A Starlink-Based Measurement from End Users — INFOCOM 2023 · Measurement
FALCON: Towards Fast and Scalable Data Delivery for Emerging Earth Observation Constellations — INFOCOM 2023 · Routing · Resource Management · Sensing
SaTCP: Link-Layer Informed TCP Adaptation for Highly Dynamic LEO Satellite Networks — INFOCOM 2023 · Transport
Enabling Low-latency-capable Satellite-Ground Topology for Emerging LEO Satellite Networks — INFOCOM 2022 · Topology
SPACERTC: Unleashing the Low-latency Potential of Mega-constellations for Real-Time Communications — INFOCOM 2022 · Transport
Mobility- and Load-Adaptive Controller Placement and Assignment in LEO Satellite Networks — INFOCOM 2021 · Resource Management
Time-Varying Resource Graph Based Resource Model for Space-Terrestrial Integrated Networks — INFOCOM 2021 · Resource Management
Dynamically Adaptive Cooperation Transmission among Satellite-Ground Integrated Networks — INFOCOM 2020 · Resource Management
Lightweight Retransmission for Random Access in Satellite Networks — INFOCOM 2018 · Transport

HotNets · 19 papers

Sustainability or Survivability? Eliminating the Need to Choose in LEO Satellite Constellations — HotNets 2025 · Reliability
Anyone, Anywhere, not Everyone, Everywhere: Starlink Doesn’t End the Digital Divide — HotNets 2025 · Measurement
A Road map for the Democratization of Space-Based Communications — HotNets 2024 · Architecture
A Call for Decentralized Satellite Networks — HotNets 2024 · Architecture
Unraveling Physical Space Limits for LEO Network Scalability — HotNets 2024 · Topology
Mind the Misleading Effects of LEO Mobility on End-to-End Congestion Control — HotNets 2024 · Mobility · Transport
It’s a bird? It’s a plane? It’s CDN!: Investigating Content Delivery Networks in the LEO Satellite Networks Era — HotNets 2024 · Content Delivery
From Foe to Friend: The Surprising Turn of Mega Constellations in Radio Astronomy — HotNets 2024 · Physical Layer
Don’t Forget the User: It’s Time to Rethink Network Measurements — HotNets 2023 · Measurement
Mars Attacks! Software Protection Against Space Radiation — HotNets 2023 · Reliability
Towards Dual-band Reconfigurable Metamaterial Surfaces for Satellite Networking — HotNets 2022 · Physical Layer
“Internet in Space” for Terrestrial Users via Cyber-Physical Convergence — HotNets 2021 · Architecture
A Distributed and Hybrid Ground Station Network for Low Earth Orbit Satellites — HotNets 2020 · Ground Segment
In-orbit Computing: An Outlandish thought Experiment? — HotNets 2020 · Space Computing
“Internet from Space” without Inter-satellite Links — HotNets 2020 · Architecture
Using ground relays for low-latency wide-area routing in megaconstellations — HotNets 2019 · Routing
Delay is Not an Option: Low Latency Routing in Space — HotNets 2018 · Routing
Networking in Heaven as on Earth — HotNets 2018 · Architecture
Gearing up for the 21st century space race — HotNets 2018 · Architecture

S&P (IEEE Security & Privacy) · 10 papers

SaTor: Exploring Satellite Routing in Tor to Reduce Latency — S&P 2026 · Routing · Security
SatBleed: Security of Commoditized Communication Modules in Satellites — S&P 2026 · Security
Space RadSim: Binary-Agnostic Fault Injection to Evaluate Cosmic Radiation Impact on Exploit Mitigation Techniques in Space — S&P 2025 · Security · Reliability
Mind the Location Leakage in LEO Direct-to-Cell Satellite Networks — S&P 2025 · Direct-to-Cell · Security
SoK: Space Infrastructures Vulnerabilities, Attacks and Defenses — S&P 2025 · Security
Don’t Shoot the Messenger: Localization Prevention of Satellite Internet Users — S&P 2024 · Security
The Dark Side of Scale: Insecurity of Direct-to-Cell Satellite Mega-Constellations — S&P 2024 · Direct-to-Cell · Security
Space Odyssey: An Experimental Software Security Analysis of Satellites — S&P 2023 · 🏆 Distinguished Paper Award · Security
A Tale of Sea and Sky On the Security of Maritime VSAT Communications — S&P 2020 · Security
Don’t Trust Satellite Phones: A Security Analysis of Two Satphone Standards — S&P 2012 · Security

CCS · 3 papers

Don’t Look Up: There Are Sensitive Internal Links in the Clear on GEO Satellites — CCS 2025 · Measurement · Security
A Comprehensive Analysis of Security Vulnerabilities and Attacks in Satellite Modems — CCS 2024 · Security
Watch This Space: Securing Satellite Communication through Resilient Transmitter Fingerprinting — CCS 2023 · Physical Layer · Security

NDSS · 4 papers

HoneySat: A Network-based Satellite Honeypot Framework — NDSS 2026 · Security
Time-varying Bottleneck Links in LEO Satellite Networks: Identification, Exploits, and Countermeasures — NDSS 2025 · Routing · Security
Starshields for iOS: Navigating the Security Cosmos in Satellite Communication — NDSS 2025 · Security
QPEP: An Actionable Approach to Secure and Performant Broadband From Geostationary Orbit — NDSS 2021 · Security

USENIX Security · 7 papers

LPG: Raise Your Location Privacy Game in Direct-to-Cell LEO Satellite Networks — USENIX Security 2026 · Direct-to-Cell · Security · 🏆 Distinguished Paper Award
LEO-Range: Physical Layer Design for Secure Ranging with Low Earth Orbiting Satellites — USENIX Security 2025 · Physical Layer · Security
GNSS-WASP: GNSS Wide Area SPoofing — USENIX Security 2025 · Security
Orbital Trust and Privacy: SoK on PKI and Location Privacy Challenges in Space Networks — USENIX Security 2024 · Security
RECORD: A RECeption-Only Region Determination Attack on LEO Satellite Users — USENIX Security 2024 · Security
Wireless Signal Injection Attacks on VSAT Satellite Modems — USENIX Security 2024 · Ground Segment · Physical Layer · Security
V’CER: Efficient Certificate Validation in Constrained Networks — USENIX Security 2022 · Security

WiSec · 5 papers

VSAsTer: Uncovering Inherent Security Issues in Current VSAT System Practices — WiSec 2024 · Security
Satellite Spoofing from A to Z: On the Requirements of Satellite Downlink Overshadowing Attacks — WiSec 2023 · Physical Layer · Security
Orbit-based Authentication Using TDOA Signatures in Satellite Networks — WiSec 2021 · Security
GNSS spoofing detection via opportunistic IRIDIUM signals — WiSec 2020 · Physical Layer · Security
Secrets in the Sky: On Privacy and Infrastructure Security in DVB-S Satellite Broadband — WiSec 2019 · Security

IWQoS · 7 papers

Beneath the Heavens: A Thorough Measurement Study of the Starlink Terrestrial Network — IWQoS 2025 · Ground Segment · Measurement
How Resilient are They? Robustness Analysis of LEO Satellite Routing — IWQoS 2025 · Routing · Reliability
Orchestrating Sustainable and Service-Differentiable Satellite Networking: A Federated Cross-Orbit Approach — IWQoS 2024 · Resource Management
StarMaze: Ring-based Attack in Satellite Internet Constellations — IWQoS 2024 · Routing · Security
Energy Drain Attack in Satellite Internet Constellations — IWQoS 2023 · Security · Reliability
Geographic Low-Earth-Orbit Networking without QoS Bottlenecks from Infrastructure Mobility — IWQoS 2022 · Routing · Mobility
Towards Sustainable Multi-Tier Space Networking for LEO Satellite Constellations — IWQoS 2022 · 🏆 Best Paper Award Runner-up · Architecture

CoNEXT · 7 papers

SkyRipple: Decentralized Routing for Multi-Shell Low-Earth-Orbit Satellite Constellation Networks — CoNEXT 2026 · Routing
A Holistic Approach to Non-Terrestrial 5G Networking with LEO Satellites: Algorithms, Experiments, and Insights — CoNEXT 2025 · Architecture · Direct-to-Cell
Vivisecting Starlink Throughput: Measurement and Prediction — CoNEXT 2025 · Measurement
LEO Satellite vs. Cellular Networks: Exploring the Potential for Synergistic Integration — CoNEXT 2023 · Measurement
Making Sense of Constellations: Methodologies for Understanding Starlink’s Scheduling Algorithms — CoNEXT 2023 · Measurement
Dissecting the Performance of Satellite Network Operators — CoNEXT 2023 · Measurement
Network topology design at 27,000 km/hour — CoNEXT 2019 · Topology

ICNP · 9 papers

ERA-LEO: An Efficient Rate Adaptation with Probabilistic Constellation Shaping for LEO Satellite Networks — ICNP 2025 · Resource Management · Physical Layer
NDN’s Stateful Forwarding Plane in the Presence of Ground-Satellite Handovers — ICNP 2024 · Routing · Mobility
The Space Above the Sky: Uniting Global-Scale Ground Station as a Service for Efficient Orbital Data Processing — ICNP 2024 · Ground Segment · Space Computing
Infiltrating the Sky: Data Delay and Overflow Attacks in Earth Observation Constellations — ICNP 2024 · Sensing · Security
SatFlow: Scalable Network Planning for LEO Mega-Constellations — ICNP 2024 · Topology
STARVERI: Efficient and Accurate Verification for Risk-Avoidance Routing in Leo Satellite Networks — ICNP 2024 · Routing
Cooperatively Constructing Cost-Effective Content Distribution Networks upon Emerging Low Earth Orbit Satellites and Clouds — ICNP 2021 · Content Delivery
OrbitCast: Exploiting Mega-Constellations for Low-Latency Earth Observation — ICNP 2021 · Routing · Ground Segment · Sensing
StarPerf: Characterizing Network Performance for Emerging Mega-Constellations — ICNP 2020 · Topology · Measurement · Experimental Platforms

IMC · 8 papers

Assessing LEO Satellite Networks for National Emergency Failover — IMC 2025 · Measurement
From GEO to LEO: First Look Into Starlink In-Flight Connectivity — IMC 2025 · Measurement
Satellite IoT in Practice: A First Measurement Study on Network Availability, Performance, and Costs — IMC 2025 · Measurement · Satellite IoT
CosmicDance: Measuring Low Earth Orbital Shifts due to Solar Radiations — IMC 2024 · Measurement
A First Look at Starlink Performance — IMC 2022 · Measurement
A Browser-side View of Starlink Connectivity — IMC 2022 · Measurement
When satellite is all you have: watching the internet from 550 ms — IMC 2022 · Measurement
Hypatia: A Simulation Framework for Low Earth Orbit Satellites — IMC 2020 · Experimental Platforms

WWW · 6 papers

Starlink in the Wild: Multi-Perspective Measurements via DNS — WWW 2026 · Measurement
Investigating Web Content Delivery Performance over Starlink — WWW 2026 · Measurement · Content Delivery
Spache: Accelerating Ubiquitous Web Browsing via Schedule-Driven Space Caching — WWW 2025 · Content Delivery
A Multifaceted Look at Starlink Performance — WWW 2024 · Measurement
SatGuard: Concealing Endless and Bursty Packet Losses in LEO Satellite Networks for Delay-Sensitive Web Applications — WWW 2024 · Transport
Beyond the First Law of Geography: Learning Representations of Satellite Imagery by Leveraging Point-of-Interests — WWW 2022 · Sensing

MM · 8 papers

Meta-Knowledge Path Augmentation for Multi-Hop Reasoning on Satellite Commonsense Multi-Modal Knowledge Graphs — MM 2025 · Sensing
A Satellite-Ground Synergistic Large Vision-Language Model System for Earth Observation — MM 2025 · Space Computing · Sensing
CitySculpt: 3D City Generation from Satellite Imagery with UV Diffusion — MM 2025 · Sensing
StarStream: Live Video Analytics over Space Networking — MM 2024 · Space Computing · Content Delivery
Robust Live Streaming over LEO Satellite Constellations: Measurement, Analysis, and Handover-Aware Adaptation — MM 2024 · Mobility · Measurement · Content Delivery
UrbanCross: Enhancing Satellite Image-Text Retrieval with Cross-Domain Adaptation — MM 2024 · Sensing
Beyond Geo-localization: Fine-grained Orientation of Street-view Images by Cross-view Matching with Satellite Imagery — MM 2022 · Sensing
Dual Adversarial Network for Unsupervised Ground/Satellite-to-Aerial Scene Adaptation — MM 2020 · Sensing

SIGMETRICS · 5 papers

A Variegated Look at Direct-to-Cell Satellites in the Wild — SIGMETRICS 2026 · Direct-to-Cell · Measurement
A Comprehensive Study of Satellite Network Performance During Severe or Extreme Geomagnetic Storms over 1.5 Years (May 2024 - Oct 2025) — SIGMETRICS 2026 · Measurement · Reliability
Exploring the 5G Digital Divide in the Non-Contiguous US: LEO Satellites to the Rescue? — SIGMETRICS 2026 · Measurement
A Global Perspective on the Past, Present, and Future of Video Streaming over Starlink — SIGMETRICS 2025 · Measurement · Content Delivery
Democratizing LEO Satellite Network Measurement — SIGMETRICS 2024 · Measurement

SenSys · 7 papers

SERENADE: A Digital Twin Emulator for LEO Satellite Networking At-Scale — SenSys 2026 · Experimental Platforms
Exploring LEO Satellite Networks for Continuous Monitoring and Dynamic Tracking — SenSys 2026 · Sensing
Enabling Near-realtime Remote Sensing via Satellite–Ground Collaboration of Large Vision–Language Models — SenSys 2026 · Space Computing · Sensing
Geoduck: Nanosatellite Constellation Scheduling for Low Latency Event Detection — SenSys 2025 · Resource Management · Sensing
SARLink: Satellite Backscatter Connectivity using Synthetic Aperture Radar — SenSys 2025 · Physical Layer · Sensing · Satellite IoT
StarAngle: User Orientation Sensing with Beacon Phase Measurements of Multiple Starlink Satellites — SenSys 2024 · Physical Layer · Sensing
Global Localization of Energy-Constrained Miniature RF Emitters using Low Earth Orbit Satellites — SenSys 2023 · Sensing

MobiSys · 3 papers

Pinpointing Transmitting LEO Satellites from a Single Passive Array — MobiSys 2026 · Physical Layer · Sensing
SigChord: Sniffing Wide Non-sparse Multiband Signals for Terrestrial and Non-terrestrial Networks — MobiSys 2025 · Physical Layer
SOS: Isolated Health Monitoring System to Save Our Satellites — MobiSys 2021 · Reliability

USENIX ATC · 4 papers

Emulating Space Computing Networks with RHONE — USENIX ATC 2025 · Space Computing · Experimental Platforms
LEOCraft: Towards Designing Performant LEO Networks — USENIX ATC 2025 · Topology · Experimental Platforms
ICARUS: Attacking Low Earth Orbit Satellite Networks — USENIX ATC 2021 · Routing · Security
AUTO: Adaptive Congestion Control Based on Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning for the Satellite-Ground Integrated Network — USENIX ATC 2021 · Transport

Other · 6 papers

What Obstructed Skies Teach Us about Satellite Internet — NINeS 2026 · Measurement
Stealthy Low Earth Orbit Satellite-to-Ground Quantum Communication — NINeS 2026 · Security
CrowdLink: Unlocking Idle LEO Network Capacity with User Terminals — NINeS 2026 · Architecture · Routing · Resource Management · Ground Segment
REMU: Memory-aware Radiation Emulation via Dual Addressing for In-orbit Deep Learning System — DAC 2025 · Space Computing · Reliability
EagleEye: Nanosatellite constellation design for high-coverage, high-resolution sensing — ASPLOS 2024 · Topology · Space Computing · Sensing
On Detecting Deception in Space Situational Awareness — Asia CCS 2021 · Sensing · Security

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