General
performance analysis for the IridiumT Low-Earth Orbit
satellite system. In response to a discovery that the
switching fabric in production was not "non-blocking"
as originally believed, Dr. Lucantoni designed a real-time
resource allocation algorithm to operate on-board the
satellite vehicle that could recover the potential capacity
loss. This algorithm avoided a costly hardware redesign
saving more than $50M and is currently implemented
on board the IridiumT satellites.
