Waveform design solutions for EHF broadband satellite communications

Author

De Sanctis, Mauro ; Cianca, Ernestina ; Rossi, Tommaso ; Sacchi, Claudio ; Mucchi, Lorenzo ; Prasad, Ramjee

Author_Institution

Univ. of Rome "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy

Volume

53

Issue

3

fYear

2015

fDate

42064

Firstpage

18

Lastpage

23

Abstract

The problematic RF environment experienced by broadband satellite communications at EHF frequency bands, in particular Q/W bands, call for the use of novel waveforms. This paper presents a detailed comparison of several waveforms in presence of nonlinear distortions and typical values of phase noise introduced at Q/W band. Two main types of waveforms have been compared: Constant Envelope multicarrier waveforms (CE-OFDM and CE-SCFDMA) and single carrier impulse-based waveforms (TH-UWB, DS-UWB and PSWF-based PSM). This comparison will allow to draw some practical guidelines for the waveforms design of EHF broadband satellite communications.

Keywords

nonlinear distortion; phase noise; satellite communication; waveform analysis; CE-OFDM; CE-SCFDMA; DS-UWB; EHF frequency band; PSWF-based PSM; Q-band; RF environment; TH-UWB; W-band; constant envelope multicarrier waveform; direct sequence ultrawide band; extremely high frequency broadband satellite communication; nonlinear distortion; orthogonal frequency division multiplexing; phase noise; prolate spheroidal wave function; pulse shape modulation; single carrier impulse-based waveform; time hopping ultrawide band; waveform design solution; Modulation; Nonlinear distortion; OFDM; Phase noise; Satellite broadcasting; Satellite communication; Signal analysis;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0163-6804

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MCOM.2015.7060477

Filename

7060477