September 12 Seminar: Claudio Sacchi

September 12, 2025

A New, Integrated Vision of Non Terrestrial Networks Targeting the Global 6G Connectivity

Prof. Claudio Sacchi, University of Trento, Dept. of Information Engineering and Computer Science, Trento, Italy

3:00 pm, UNM Centennial Engineering Center, Room 1026
Online Guests: Contact Prof. Santhanam <bsanthan@unm.edu> for a Zoom link

Abstract: After the COVID 19 pandemic, the European Union decided to launch a financing program called “Next Generation EU”, aimed at promoting the restart after the shock One of the key points was to design the future evolutions of the global network in such a way as to connect people, institutions, companies, schools, etc and replace the virtual presence with the physical one, thus being ready for any kind of new emergency Particularly, in the framework of this financing program the Restart Extended Partnership has been proposed, funded and launched which is related to ICT technologies the RESTART name that has been chosen stands for: “Research and innovation on future Telecommunications systems and networks, to make Italy more smart” RESTART is articulated into structural projects One of these structural projects is ITA NTN, acronym which stands for “Integrated Terrestrial and Non Terrestrial Networks” The main accent of the project is on the tight cooperation of terrestrial and non terrestrial networks to be deployed in 6 G communication scenarios characterized by global and ubiquitous coverage The seminar will try to highlight at a glance the main innovative achievements of ITA NTN in the first two project years and to show some possible contributions to the standardization of future 6 G NTNs Particular attention will be given on the results that have been achieved in the framework of the project such as the definition of use cases and requirements for the upcoming 6 G standard together and the link budget analysis for the considered transmission techniques

Bio: Claudio Sacchi received the “ degree in Electronic Engineering and the Ph D in Space Science and Engineering from the University of Genoa, Italy, in 1992 and 2003 respectively In August 2002 he joined the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science ( University of Trento, Italy, as an Assistant Professor He was promoted to Associate Professor in December 2020 He has authored and coauthored more than 1 5 0 papers published in international journals and conferences He is Senior Member IEEE and a member of the IEEE ComSoc IEEE BTS, IEEE VT, and IEEE AESS Since 2019 he has been coordinating and chairing the IEEE AESS technical panel ::“Glue Technologies for Space Systems” that was awarded by AESS as “Outstanding Panel of the Year” in 2020 and 2021 Since January 1 st, 2023 Claudio Sacchi has got double affiliation with UNM as Research Professor His main research interests are related to emerging satellite and aerospace communications and broadband mobile communications in 5 G and 6 G systems, software defined radios, emergency communications, mm wave transmission in terrestrial and satellite applications