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Glue Technologies for Space Systems: An Introduction to a New AESS Technical Panel
Table 1.

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Founder member

Tommaso Rossi, University
of Rome "Tor Vergata",
Italy, IEEE Member

Vlad Popescu, University of
Transilvania, Brasov
Romania, IEEE Member

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Please, explain the reason why did
you decide to join the panel

Please, express your personal
feeling about which outcomes do
you expect in the near future from
the panel activities

wireless networks. This panel
explores exactly this issue and
clearly looks into the future, by
defining a clear step forward into a
more interdisciplinary approach to
the design of future satellite
communications and at the same
time paving the way for integrating
the best emerging technologies in
networking.

experts, I hope this will represent a
firm example of how the
interdisciplinary nature and
pervasiveness of communications
should be successful addressed,
and exploited to bring a revolution
in the field.

The panel is focused on stimulating
thematic areas; as a matter of fact,
"glue technologies" concept is one
of the key topics in the current and
future space-based systems for
communication, sensing and
navigation applications. 5G
scenarios are leading us in the
middle of a key turning point and
space systems have to play an
important role in such a complex and
heterogeneous eco-system. The
panel will provide the opportunity to
gather experience from academy
and industry to identify a roadmap
for the full exploitation of new
technologies as "softwarization"
paradigms (both for the network and
radio interface) and terabit/s
connectivity supported by EHF.

The main outcomes could be the
dissemination of panel activities
through the organization of events,
publications and courses.
Moreover, it will be very important
to create a strong liaison between
academic and industrial actors to
push the development of glue
technologies, clearly identify the
challenges and train experts.

Within the last years, the
communication technologies have
generated significant interest to the
concepts of Internet of Things (IoT)
and machine-2-machine (M2M)
communications. Even though
initially exclusively of terrestrial
nature, these two concepts have
shifted also in the satellite R&D
domain, but are still conditioned by
elevated hardware and access costs.
The software-defined-radio (SDR)
concept can contribute to the rapid
development of IoT and M2M
systems by providing a higher
degree of flexibility in designing the
wireless communication interfaces
both for the last-mile terrestrial link
as for the satellite links. Devices
equipped with SDR modules could

This panel should promote the
seamless integration among the
vast range of technologies used for
satellite communication and
navigation, focusing on the
hardware re-usability based in the
software-defined-radio paradigm.
This would lead on the long term to
the considerable reduction of costs
and time efforts and would also
allow the rapid test and adoption of
new communication standards,
especially for the previously
mentioned IoT and M2M
applications.

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