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Abstract. Classically, thermal noise has been the workhorse of satellite communications due to the long distances to
be covered between the satellite and the user terminal (UT). Lately, LDPC (Low-Density Parity-Check) codes allow
the noise threshold to be set very close to the Shannon limit for the memory-less satellite channel; thus, solving the
noise problem that turbo codes were not able to solve. However, recently, the high target rates in next generation 5G
wireless terrestrial system are pushing the required spectral efficiency in Satellite Communications; therefore, shifting
the SatCom paradigm towards an interference limited one. This paper revisits the 5G scene and the role of next
generation satellite communications, with a special focus on high throughput satellites (HTS) together with the future
accompanying MIMO interference mitigation techniques.
The Authors, published by EDP Sciences. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution
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MATEC Web of Conferences 76, 03008 (2016) DOI: 10.1051/ matecconf/2016 760 3008
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Figu
ure 9. Capacity
y for user in beaam 1 when beam
m 2 reuses the
Figure 7. HTS applied to a Euuropean coverage with 500 MH Hz
user bandwidthh divided in 2 coolours. Each co
olor is up to freq
quency and acts as an interferennce with ( )=0
0 dB.
500MHz on onne polarization.
In this situuation multipple beams serv ve simultaneoously
overlapped arreas. Dependiing on the po osition of the user
within each bbeam coveragee area, the lev vel of interfereence
will vary. Figgure 8 plots thee distribution of possible .
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and the interfference rejection capabilities of the receivvers. pressent, not only
y a different cchannel, when
n compared too
This is a mattter of future reesearch. the wireless terrestrial one, but also, ass it has beenn
com
mmented alon ng the text, thhere are som
me specificities
suchh as:
x long rou und trip delayy (that can bee overcome byy
addressiing the prooper servicee and cachee
management);
x satellite high power amplifiers (H HPAs) effects
on the signal;
x Limited on-board power, mass andd
accomm modation yieldds to limitatio on in terms of
o
HPAs, when
w dealing with high-freequency re-usee
and preccoding;
x frame structure
s that encompasses many userrs
under thhe same channnel code in ord der to properlyy
combat noise (that forrces many tim mes a multicasst
configurration rather th
than a unicast one);
Figure 11. Agggregate capacityy and rate for FR=2
F with joint x GW sch heduler strateegies modificaation to be inn
multiuser decodding and scheduuling. In the FR
R=4 scenario thhe line withh precoding teechniques;
detection is sinngle user. x geograp phical and timme traffic variaations that aree
different from the terreestrial onlyy
4 Signal P
Processing
g Challeng
ges commun nications (e.gg. a satellitte can servee
Next Generaation wireless terrestrial networks
n will not geograp phical areas thhat are in different time-slots
provide ubiquuitous commuunications. In contrast, sateellite and with h complementtary traffic needs);
networks provide coveragee, disaster rellief and resilieence x trade-offfs between capacity, av vailability andd
and thereforee, both netwoorks are com mplementary. The fairness requirementss that become more relevannt
novelty and challenges are [25] : 1) 1 New netw work than in the
t terrestrial arena;
architectures and consttellations, LEO, L MEO; 2) x channel variations thhat depend no ot only on thee
Aeronautical and Professioonal Link Dessigns for Sateellite user termminal, but alsso on the sateellite orbit andd
Systems at Extremely High Frequeency Bands;; 3) can ran nge from veery slow on nes for GEO O
Seamless seervices overr hybrid terrestrial-sate
t ellite satellites and FSS too high Doppler with LEO O
networks; 4) Optical free-space commu unications, 5) On- satellites;
board signall processing and 6) Multiple M Gateeway x synchronization andd time reccovery issues
architectures. different from the w wireless terresstrial segmennt
In each oof the challennges that hav ve been identiified for ch hannel estim mation and interferencee
novel tailoredd solutions foor the satellitee segment havve to cancellaation;
be studied. Iff we focus now w on the physsical layer asppects
x on-ground and on-board complexityy
and the associated signal prrocessing prob blems,
considerrations.
x conccerning the integration
i of
o terrestrial and Finally, and in addition to the mentio oned aspect, ifi
satelllite systems inn future 5G neetworks, theree are TerraHertz comm munications arre targeted, VeryV HTS aree
diffeerent aspects to be con nsidered from m a arouund the corner and will bbring new sittuations to bee
waveeform persppective beccause frequeency solv
ved in order to properly work in Q/V V band (40/500
assiggnments rangge from 300 MHz up to 100 GHHz), W band (70/80 GHz) z) and optical bands, withh
GHzz and both,, Single- and a multi-caarrier pho
otonics optimized payload m mass [26].
soluttions have to beb studied, tog gether with Ac
cknowledg
gements
x Licensed/shared/uunlicensed speectrum access..
Thiis work has been developped within th he network of o
x As inn the wirelesss arena, not on nly orthogonall but
Expperts SATNE EX IV (http:////www.satnex4 4.org/) that is
also non-orthogoonal multiplee access cann be
sup
pported by the European Sppace Agency. This work has
usefuul to increasee the spectrall efficiency; tthus,
also
o received funding
f by the Spanish Ministry of o
creatting the needd for interfereence managem ment
Ecoonomy and Co ompetitivenesss (Ministerio
o de Economiaa
technniques.
y Competitividad
C d) under projeect TEC2014-5 59255-C3-1-R R
x Therre are also sevveral impairm ments in a sateellite (ELLISA); and from thee Catalan Governmennt
channnel to be dealt
d with: ph hase noise, nnon- (2014SGR1567)..
lineaarities, on-boaard filtering.
We talk aabout tailored solutions beccause it has too be Re
eferences
studied: i) hoow do the propposed air inteerface(s) perfoorms
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ppp.eu, (2015)
and ii) how ddo the proposeed countermeaasures devisedd for
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MATEC Web of Conferences 76, 03008 (2016) DOI: 10.1051/ matecconf/2016 760 3008
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