BER performance of multibeam satellite systems with Tomlinson-Harashima precoding

  • Authors:
  • Mario Poggioni;Matteo Berioli;Paolo Banelli

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ICC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Communications
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

A multibeam satellite system can be modelled as a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system with an inter-beam interference matrix that is derived from the positions of the users in the different beams. This way it is possible to apply precoding techniques, such as Tomlinson-Harashima precoding (THP), to mitigate the interference. This paper presents an analytical framework to model the interference by a simple and effective parameter, which enables to assess the uncoded bit error rate (BER) of THP in such a scenario, and to derive useful hints on the optimization of the overall system capacity.