Ph.D. Summer School 

Frontier Technologies for Future "Space 2.0" Communications

Third edition 

29 August - 1 September 2023

Rationale and objectives

The recent change of perspective known also as “Space 2.0” will revolutionize the paradigms of satellite and, more in general, aerospace communications. The old role of “sky repeaters” attributed to Space network nodes no longer copes with the emerging requirements of flexibility, global and ubiquitous connectivity already emerged in the 5G vision. In such a perspective, the role of satellites will be reconsidered in the framework of "softwarized", reconfigurable and sustainable network infrastructures.The Ph.D. Summer School Frontier Technologies for “Space 2.0” Communications (third edition) aims at offering an overview of the most advanced technologies concerning a renewed vision of Space connectivity for the next decades.

Where, when, how?

The Summer school will be held in a remote modality, by using the Zoom platform in order to make the participation of the largest audience easier.
Please, register at the school by sending an email to the contact person Prof. CLAUDIO SACCHI (claudio.sacchi@unitn.it).  The registration deadline is August 21, 2023. A mailing list will be formed with the registered students.
The Zoom link will be sent to every registered participant 3 days before the lecture starts.

Registration and participation are COMPLETELY FREE OF CHARGE. 


At the end of the School, a Certification of attendance will be delivered to all the attending students. A final exam is foreseen for the students that can earn credits from the attendance of the Summer School.

Final program

August 29, 2023 

H. 8.45 a.m. - 9.00 a.m. CEST

Welcome to the participants (Claudio Sacchi, University of Trento, Trento, Italy)

H. 9.00 a.m. – 12.00 p.m. CEST

“Space 2.0”: the new Space Revolution (Claudio Sacchi, University of Trento, Italy, Marina Ruggieri, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy, Cosimo Stallo, Thales, Rome, Italy)

H.4.30 p.m. -7.30 p.m. CEST

End-to-End System Considerations for Space Communications Systems (Kar-Ming Cheung, JPL, Pasadena, CA)


August 30, 2023

H. 9.00 a.m. – 12.00 p.m. CEST

Space Softwarization: from Physical Layer to Services: a new paradigmatic vision of Space Networks (Fabrizio Granelli, Claudio Sacchi, University of Trento, Trento, Italy, Alessandro Guidotti, University of Bologna, Italy)

H. 3.00 p.m. – 6.00 p.m. CEST

Space Quantum Communications (R. Bassoli, R. Ferrara, J. Notzel, Technical University of Dresden, Dresden, Germany)


August 31, 2023

H. 9.00 a.m. - 12.00 p.m. CEST

EHF for Satellite Communications: the latest developments and experimentations (Giorgia Parca, Giuseppe Codispoti, Italian Space Agency – ASI, Rome, Italy, Tommaso Rossi, University of Rome”Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy)

H. 4.30 p.m. - 7.30 p.m. CEST

Software Defined Radio for Satellite Communications: applications for onboard and ground processing and Internet of Remote Things (Eugene Grayver, Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA, Vlad Popescu, University of Transylvania, Brasov, Romania)


September 1, 2023

H. 9.00 a.m. - 12.00 p.m. CEST

Satellite networking in “5G and beyond 5G” scenarios (Mohammed Slim Alouini, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia, Mario Marchese, Fabio Patrone, University of Genoa, DITEN, Italy)

H. 4.00 p.m. - 6.00 p.m. CEST

Final exam 


School organized by:


University of Trento

University of Genoa

University of Roma "Tor Vergata"

Under the patronage of:


IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society (AESS)