Signal processing in satellite applications is usually performed either on-ground or on-board, i.e. at the gateway station or in the payload. Within the framework of the European Space Agency (ESA) SatNEx III study, a hybrid approach has been considered by splitting the processing between the satellite and the gateway, aiming to strike a better balance between performance and payload complexity. The design of a highcapacity multi-beam system has been carried out, to assess the potential applicability of a hybrid space-ground processing architecture (DIGISAT) for satellite broadband systems; this is achieved via hybrid space-ground beamforming, MIMO and MIMO-MUD, Precoding, as well as Digital Feeder link techniques.
This papers addresses the design of new energyefficient Continuous Phase Modulation (CPM) waveforms suitable for being adopted in satellite mesh networks that are characterized by the absence of the Hub, and by small antennas and power amplifiers with moderate to low output saturated power at the user terminal. In particular, a CPM modulation format concatenated with a proper convolutional code for low spectral efficiency values has been selected to implement an efficient waveform for power-limited scenarios. Performance results show the gain obtained with respect to the DVB-RCS2 CPM waveforms at higher spectral efficiency also when transmission techniques, such as Burst Repetition, are considered, and confirm the suitability of the new designed CPM waveforms for satellite hub-less scenarios.
Abstract-This paper addresses detailed waveform trade-offs for mesh satellite networks. The waveform analysis is carried out considering spectral efficiency, resilience against non linear distortion, channel impairments and interference for both linear and continuous phase modulation schemes defined in the DVB-RCS2 standard.
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