Paper Info
Title
Multi-satellite MIMO communications at Ku-band and above: investigations on spatial multiplexing for capacity improvement and selection diversity for interference mitigation
Abstract
This paper investigates the applicability of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology to satellite communications at the Ku-band and above. After introducing the possible diversity sources to form a MIMO matrix channel in a satellite environment, particular emphasis is put on satellite diversity. Two specific different topics from the field of MIMO technology applications to satellite communications at these frequencies are further analyzed: (i) capacity improvement achieved by MIMO spatial multiplexing systems and (ii) interference mitigation achieved by MIMO diversity systems employing receive antenna selection. In the first case, a single-user capacity analysis of a satellite 2 × 2 MIMO spatial multiplexing system is presented and a useful analytical closed form expression is derived for the outage capacity achieved. In the second case, a satellite 2 × 2 MIMO diversity system with receive antenna selection is considered, adjacent satellite cochannel interference on its forward link is studied and an analytical model predicting the interference mitigation achieved is presented. In both cases, an appropriate physical MIMO channel model is assumed which takes into account the propagation phenomena related to the frequencies of interest, such as clear line-of-sight operation, high antenna directivity, the effect of rain fading, and the slant path lengths difference. Useful numerical results obtained through the analytical expressions derived are presented to compare the performance of multi-satellite MIMO systems to relevant single-input single-output (SISO) ones.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1155/2007/59608
EURASIP J. Wireless Comm. and Networking
Keywords
Field
DocType
interference mitigation,multi-satellite mimo system,mimo diversity system,capacity improvement,selection diversity,spatial multiplexing,multi-satellite mimo communication,mimo spatial,antenna selection,satellite communication,mimo technology application,appropriate physical mimo channel,adjacent satellite cochannel interference,mimo matrix channel
MIMO-OFDM,Multi-user MIMO,3G MIMO,Telecommunications,Ku band,Computer science,Fading,MIMO,Electronic engineering,Real-time computing,Communications satellite,Spatial multiplexing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2007
2
1687-1499
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
18
1.03
11
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Konstantinos P. Liolis113610.10
Athanasios D. Panagopoulos244053.26
Panayotis G. Cottis318321.77