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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 14, 2021
Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta, GA (US);
Ian F. Akyildiz, Atlanta, GA (US);
Ahan Kak, Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
In a method for routing communications through a constellation () of a plurality of CubeSats orbiting a planet and responsive to a ground controller, the ground controller determines optimal tunnels () that include inter-satellite links () between CubeSats by: generating virtual nodes (); generating the sub-satellite points () to correspond to points on a path through each virtual node that CubeSats follow; calculating an inter-satellite link from a sub-satellite point another sub-satellite point during a period from a time of initialization when the first sub-satellite point is at an entry point of the first virtual node until the first sub-satellite point is at an exit point; and generating an information packet describing the optimal tunnel () including inter-satellite links () that interconnect the sub-satellite points (). The information packet transmitted from the ground controller to one of the CubeSats and is forwarded from one of the CubeSats to remaining CubeSats.