Capacity and Error Rate Analysis of MIMO Satellite Communication Systems in Fading Scenarios

TL;DR

This paper analyzes the capacity and error rate of MIMO satellite systems with various configurations and environmental factors, providing insights into their performance in fading scenarios using analytical and spatial models.

Contribution

It offers a comprehensive evaluation of MIMO satellite systems' capacity and BER considering multiple system and environmental parameters, which is novel in the context of fading scenarios.

Findings

Capacity increases with more satellites and antennas.

BER performance degrades with atmospheric attenuation and phase disturbances.

Analytical models effectively predict system performance.

Abstract

In this paper, we investigated the capacity and bit error rate (BER) performance of Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) satellite systems with single and multiple dual polarized satellites in geostationary orbit and a mobile ground receiving station with multiple antennas. We evaluated the effects of both system parameters such as number of satellites, number of receive antennas, and SNR and environmental factors including atmospheric signal attenuations and signal phase disturbances on the overall system performance using both analytical and spatial models for MIMO satellite systems.