To MIMO or Not To MIMO in Mobile Satellite Broadcasting Systems

Author

Arapoglou, Pantelis-Daniel ; Burzigotti, P. ; Bertinelli, M. ; Bolea Alamanac, Ana ; De Gaudenzi, Riccardo

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Athens, Greece

Volume

10

Issue

9

fYear

2011

fDate

9/1/2011 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2807

Lastpage

2811

Abstract

This letter studies the potential capacity advantages of introducing a dual polarization per beam paradigm instead of the conventional single polarization per beam in mobile satellite broadcasting systems. This enables the application of MIMO techniques, not yet thoroughly investigated for mobile satellite systems. We engage in a fair system performance comparison between single polarization SISO and dual polarization non-MIMO and MIMO configurations based on the DVB-SH state-of-the-art mobile satellite standard. Along the course, the major advantages and pitfalls of a dual polarization per beam system from an interference, antenna, payload, and capacity perspective are highlighted.

Keywords

MIMO communication; digital video broadcasting; direct broadcasting by satellite; electromagnetic wave polarisation; mobile satellite communication; radiofrequency interference; satellite antennas; DVB-SH state-of-the-art mobile satellite standard; MIMO configuration; MIMO technique; antenna; beam paradigm; dual polarization nonMIMO; fair system performance; interference; mobile satellite broadcasting system; single polarization SISO; Digital video broadcasting; Encoding; Least squares approximation; MIMO; Mobile communication; Satellite broadcasting; Satellites; LMS; MIMO; dual polarization; mobile satellite broadcasting; outage capacity;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-1276

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TWC.2011.071411.101599

Filename

5961163