The Influence of Ground Infrastructure Proximity on Starlink’s Performance
A Novel Method to Unravel Starlink’s Network Routing
C. Baraya (TU Delft - Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science)
Nitinder Mohan – Mentor (TU Delft - Networked Systems)
T. Shreedhar – Mentor (TU Delft - Networked Systems)
Q. Wang – Graduation committee member
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Abstract
Previous literature had accentuated the importance of close ground infrastructure (Ground Stations and Points of presence) on the network performance of Starlink. In order to further investigate this relation, a new method was defined, based on IPv4traceroute, to identify the PoP associated with a Starlink user. This method has been evaluated for 95 RIPE Atlas probes connected to the Starlink network and the results have been mapped in an interactive web-tool. Using this data, a strong correlation between latency and proximity to ground infrastructure was verified.