The 30th AIAA International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC) and the 18th Ka and Broadband Communications,
Navigation and Earth Observation Conference, the two most influential technical conferences on satellite systems,
will be held jointly in Ottawa, Canada, from 24 to 27 September 2012.
The 2012 Joint Conference theme is "Satellites in the Service of Humanity".
Objective of the ICSSC Conference
Satellites play a vital role in everyone's life, every day. For some, it represents their main access to internet either directly
or indirectly via backhaul services. For others, it is a source of entertainment and leisure from broadcast satellites or help
them find their way using navigation satellites. In addition to individual reach, satellites provide key functions for governments'
civil and military needs and for commercial enterprises. Security and public safety organizations rely on satellites for critical
telecommunications, search and rescue operations, tracking of ships at sea, environmental sensing and daily monitoring, more so during disaster
events such as floods, earthquakes, forest fires or tsunami to name a few. Our search for a better understanding of the universe
and in particular of our galaxy calls for unprecedented communication capacity to be relayed to Earth from various sensors.
Ka-band satellites offer broadband connectivity to meet these requirements, and, as the demand increases,
new frequency bands (Q/V) will be explored to deliver ever-increasing capacity. Improving on the above
capabilities and providing new ways to serve mankind are some of the challenges the satellite community
must face. The conference will explore these challenges, and propose and discuss solutions.
Its objective is to provide an in depth exploration of the economic, marketing, technical and regulatory
issues affecting these new and planned services.
Therefore papers are solicited for the Conference in the following areas:
• New broadband services
• Integration and interoperability of
systems
• Communications protocols and networks
• Advances in satellite architecture
• Advances in satellite components
• Advances in Earth terminals
• Propagation and mitigation techniques
• New broadcast services
• New fixed-satellite services
• New data relay services
• Integrated services for disaster relief
• Interactivity via satellite
architectures
• Military applications and architectures
• Advances in payload subsystems
• User applications
• Navigation satellite systems and
applications
• Search and rescue satellite systems
and applications
• Low/Medium/High Earth orbit systems
• Automatic identification systems
• Satellite bus technologies
• Poster Papers
A Poster Session will be offered as an opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students to present their work and interact with the leading professionals in their fields.
Panels will be available to display their work on the second day of the Conference, September 26.
Students must submit an abstract using the Abstract Submission page by March 31 and select 'Poster Session' on the list of topics.
Space is limited and the Committee reserves the right to select which poster will be accepted.
Students whose abstract is selected will be notified by April 30. They must confirm their participation by May 31 to have their paper included in the Conference Program.
A special students reduced registration fee of US$ 350 will apply to cover the coffee breaks, luncheon, attendance to the conference for that day, the proceedings and other material provided to participants. The registration fee must be paid by July 31, 2012.
Best Paper Contest
The AIAA Communications Systems Technical Committee will maintain its tradition of identifying a Best Professional and a Best Student paper.
Students are therefore requested to identify themselves when submitting their abstract. The Best Professional Paper authors will get a certificate from the AIAA Technical Activities committee while the Best Student Paper student author will get a similar certificate from AIAA as well as a reward of US$500.
Organization
The Joint Conference, organized by FGM Events, LLC, will have a single registration fee that will provide access to both Conferences and all joint Plenary and Social events. The technical programs of the ICSSC and the Ka and Broadband Conference will however be separately organized. All papers will be published on the Joint Conference web site accessible to registrants, and on a CD-ROM that will be provided to all registrants. Papers submitted to the Ka and Broadband Conference will, in addition, be published in the form of hard-copy Proceedings that will be distributed to all registrants.
The working language of the Joint Conference will be English.
printICSSC Technical Program should be directed to the Conference Technical Program Co-chairs at:
icssc2012_tpc@crc.gc.ca
Joint Conference organization should be directed to Clotilde Canepa Fertini at:
clotilde.fertini@kaconf.org