[atlas] placing a probe into wireless networks (not terrestrial)

Hi Kurt,

Thanks for a post, it was good having a chat.

What I would like to know, on a more high-level note, is how the community sees measuring the Internet via wireless channels. This brings some challenges, because measurements can be affected by such as interference (weather, radio, solar, etc) and also the probe itself moving.

That of course does not detract from the initial question of deploying probes on LEO networks, but rather should be seen as adding on to it.

Regards,

Michel

> On 28 Oct 2022, at 10:04, Kurt Kayser <Kurt.Kayser at online.de> wrote:
> 
> Dear Atlas-ml-followers,
> 
> this a summary of a brief discussion I had with Michel Stam during RIPE85.
> 
> We believe there might be a great value putting up a public Internet monitoring probe (vantage point) into low earth orbit satellite systems, such as Starlink.
> 
> Monitoring from terrestrial end-points delivers high variances, due to frequent sat-changes.
> 
> If we could put up an ATLAS-probe (be it SW - which is probably easier than HW) into a specific plane, we could add interesting tests and try to interpret the values depending on position over specific areas, atmospheric influences, solar influences as well as other effects that would change signal patterns.
> 
> I would be offering support to try to establish such a probe and help to setup a project defition.
> 
> Any thoughts or feedback to this idea?
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Kurt Kayser
> 
> 
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