Multiuser Detection and Channel Estimation for Multibeam Satellite Communications

TL;DR

This paper introduces iterative multi-user detection and channel estimation techniques for multibeam satellite communications, improving signal quality and reducing error rates in noisy, multi-access environments.

Contribution

It proposes a novel successive interference cancellation approach with iterative beamforming and channel estimation tailored for multibeam satellite links.

Findings

Significant bit error rate reduction at low SNR.

Effective interference cancellation in multi-user scenarios.

Enhanced signal power through signal combining techniques.

Abstract

In this paper, iterative multi-user detection techniques for multi-beam communications are presented. The solutions are based on a successive interference cancellation architecture and a channel decoding to treat the co-channel interference. Beams forming and channels coefficients are estimated and updated iteratively. A developed technique of signals combining allows power improvement of the useful received signal; and then reduction of the bit error rates with low signal to noise ratios. The approach is applied to a synchronous multi-beam satellite link under an additive white Gaussian channel. Evaluation of the techniques is done with computer simulations, where a noised and multi-access environment is considered. The simulations results show the good performance of the proposed solutions.