Satellite Communications

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EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
Satellite Communications
Guest Editors: Ray E. Sheriff, Anton Donner,
and Alessandro Vanelli-Coralli
Satellite Communications
EURASIP Journal on
Wireless Communications and Networking
Satellite Communications
Guest Editors: Ray E. Sheriff, Anton Donner,
and Alessandro Vanelli-Coralli
Copyright©2007HindawiPublishingCorporation.Allrightsreserved.
Thisisaspecialissuepublishedinvolume2007of“EURASIPJournalonWirelessCommunicationsandNetworking.”Allarticlesare
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Editor-in-Chief
LucVandendorpe,Universite´ CatholiquedeLouvain,Belgium
Associate Editors
ThusharaAbhayapala,Australia DavidGesbert,France MarcMoonen,Belgium
MohamedH.Ahmed,Canada FaryZ.Ghassemlooy,UK EricMoulines,France
FaridAhmed,USA ChristianHartmann,Germany SayandevMukherjee,USA
AlaganAnpalagan,Canada StefanKaiser,Germany KameswaraRaoNamuduri,USA
AnthonyBoucouvalas,Greece G.K.Karagiannidis,Greece AmiyaNayak,Canada
LinCai,Canada ChiChungKo,Singapore A.Pandharipande,TheNetherlands
BiaoChen,USA VisaKoivunen,Finland AthinaPetropulu,USA
Yuh-ShyanChen,Taiwan RichardKozick,USA A.LeeSwindlehurst,USA
PascalChevalier,France BhaskarKrishnamachari,USA SergiosTheodoridis,Greece
Chia-ChinChong,SouthKorea S.Lambotharan,UK GeorgeS.Tombras,Greece
HuaiyuDai,USA VincentLau,HongKong LangTong,USA
SouraDasgupta,USA DavidI.Laurenson,UK AthanasiosV.Vasilakos,Greece
IbrahimDeveli,Turkey ThoLe-Ngoc,Canada WeidongXiang,USA
PetarM.Djuric´,USA WeiLi,USA YangXiao,USA
MischaDohler,France YonghuiLi,Australia XueshiYang,USA
AbrahamO.Fapojuwo,Canada TongtongLi,USA LawrenceYeung,HongKong
MichaelGastpar,USA ZhiqiangLiu,USA DongmeiZhao,Canada
AlexGershman,Germany StephenMcLaughlin,Scotland WeihuaZhuang,Canada
WolfgangGerstacker,Germany SudipMisra,Canada
Contents
SatelliteCommunications,RayE.Sheriff,AntonDonner,andAlessandroVanelli-Coralli
Volume2007,ArticleID58964,2pages
Multi-SatelliteMIMOCommunicationsatKu-BandandAbove:InvestigationsonSpatialMultiplexing
forCapacityImprovementandSelectionDiversityforInterferenceMitigation,KonstantinosP.Liolis,
AthanasiosD.Panagopoulos,andPanayotisG.Cottis
Volume2007,ArticleID59608,11pages
InvestigationsinSatelliteMIMOChannelModeling:AccentonPolarization,Pe´terHorva´th,
GeorgeK.Karagiannidis,PeterR.King,StavrosStavrou,andIstva´nFrigyes
Volume2007,ArticleID98942,10pages
PerformanceAnalysisofSSCDiversityReceiversoverCorrelatedRiceanFadingSatelliteChannels,
PetrosS.BithasandP.TakisMathiopoulos
Volume2007,ArticleID25361,9pages
AdvancedFadeCountermeasuresforDVB-S2SystemsinRailwayScenarios,StefanoCioni,
CristinaPa´rragaNiebla,GonzaloSecoGranados,SandroScalise,AlessandroVanelli-Coralli,
andMar´ıaAngelesVa´zquezCastro
Volume2007,ArticleID49718,17pages
CapacityVersusBitErrorRateTrade-OffintheDVB-S2ForwardLink,MatteoBerioli,
ChristianKissling,andRe´miLapeyre
Volume2007,ArticleID14798,10pages
FrequencyEstimationinIterativeInterferenceCancellationAppliedtoMultibeamSatelliteSystems,
J.P.Millerioux,M.L.Boucheret,C.Bazile,andA.Ducasse
Volume2007,ArticleID62310,12pages
AQoSArchitectureforDVB-RCSNextGenerationSatelliteNetworks,ThierryGayraudand
PascalBerthou
Volume2007,ArticleID58484,9pages
MaximumLikelihoodTimingandCarrierSynchronizationinBurst-ModeSatelliteTransmissions,
MicheleMorelliandAntonioA.D’Amico
Volume2007,ArticleID65058,8pages
BurstFormatDesignforOptimumJointEstimationofDoppler-ShiftandDoppler-RateinPacket
SatelliteCommunications,LucaGiugno,FrancescaZanier,andMarcoLuise
Volume2007,ArticleID29086,12pages
TCP-CallAdmissionControlInteractioninMultiplatformSpaceArchitectures,GeorgiosTheodoridis,
CesareRoseti,NioviPavlidou,andMicheleLuglio
Volume2007,ArticleID23923,8pages
EfficientDelayTrackingMethodswithSidelobesCancellationforBOC-ModulatedSignals,
AdinaBurian,ElenaSimonaLohan,andMarkkuKaleviRenfors
Volume2007,ArticleID72626,20pages
AnalysisofFilter-Bank-BasedMethodsforFastSerialAcquisitionofBOC-ModulatedSignals,
ElenaSimonaLohan
Volume2007,ArticleID25178,12pages
HindawiPublishingCorporation
EURASIPJournalonWirelessCommunicationsandNetworking
Volume2007,ArticleID58964,2pages
doi:10.1155/2007/58964
Editorial
Satellite Communications
RayE.Sheriff,1AntonDonner,2andAlessandroVanelli-Coralli3
1MobileandSatelliteCommunicationsResearchCentre,SchoolofEngineering,DesignandTechnology,UniversityofBradford,
RichmondRoadBradfordBD71DP,UK
2GermanAerospaceCenter,InstituteofCommunicationsandNavigation,Oberpfaffenhofen,82234Wessling,Germany
3ARCES,UniversityofBologna,ViaToffano2,40125Bologna,Italy
Received28November2007;Accepted9December2007
Copyright©2007RayE.Sheriffetal.ThisisanopenaccessarticledistributedundertheCreativeCommonsAttributionLicense,
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We are delighted to bring to you this special issue on satel- ing:accentonpolarization”looksatMIMOsystemsfromthe
litecommunications,whichwehavepreparedaspartofthe polarizationdiversitypointofviewanddwellsonthesatellite
spreading of excellence remit of the satellite communica- cooperativecommunicationconcepts.
tions network of excellence (SatNEx). The SatNEx project, Switch and stay combining (SSC) is a form of diversity
whichbeganin2004,isfundedforfiveyearsundertheEuro- technique used in digital receivers to compensate for fade
peanUnion’sSixthFrameworkProgramme(FP6)Informa- events introduced by the mobile channel. The third paper
tion Society Technologies (IST) Thematic Area. Led by the “PerformanceanalysisofSSCdiversityreceiversovercorre-
GermanAerospaceCenter,SatNExbringstogetheranetwork lated Ricean fading satellite channels” investigates the per-
of 24 partners, distributed throughout Europe, with mem- formance of dual-branch SSC receivers for different fading
bershipdrawnfromtencountries. channelcharacteristics.
The philosophy underlying the SatNEx approach re- The next four papers deal with the emerging scenario
volves around the selection of focused actions under Joint ofmobiledigitalvideobroadcasting(DVB-S2andRCSmo-
ProgrammesofActivities,whicharecarriedoutcollectively bile). Alternative approaches to counteracting fading chan-
by the partners and include research, integration, and dis- nels introduced when operating in a train environment re-
seminationactivities.Trainingrepresentsanimportantpart ceiving satellite DVB-S2 are presented in the paper “Ad-
oftheSatNExremitandissupportedthroughanumberof vancedfadecountermeasuresforDVB-S2systemsinrailway
initiativesincludingthehostingofinternshipprojectsandan scenarios.” Here, as a result of simulation analysis, antenna
annualsummerschool. diversity and packet-level forward error correction mecha-
Thecallforpapersresultedinahighnumberofsubmis- nismsareproposedandtheirimpactisevaluatedwithrespect
sions, from which we have been able to select 12 excellent tothereceiverdesignandsystemcomplexity.Thethemeof
papersdealingwiththedifferentaspectsofsatellitecommu- DVB-S2iscontinuedwiththepaper“Capacityversusbiter-
nicationsandnavigation. rorratetrade-offintheDVB-S2forwardlink,”whichinves-
Multiple-inputmultiple-output(MIMO)techniquesare tigates how satellite capacity can be optimised for DVB-S2
attracting a considerable amount of attention from within transmissions. The DVB return channel via satellite (DVB-
theterrestrialwirelesscommunity.Thefirstpaperofthisspe- RCS)isthenaddressedin“Frequencyestimationiniterative
cialissue,“MultisatelliteMIMOcommunicationsatKuband interference cancellation applied to multibeam satellite sys-
andabove:investigationsonspatialmultiplexingforcapac- tems,”whichconsiderstheapplicationofinterferencecancel-
ityimprovementandselectiondiversityforinterferencemit- lationonthereverselinkofamultibeamsatellitesystem,us-
igation,”considerstheapplicationofsuchtechnologyovera ingDVB-RCSwithconvolutionalcodingasanexample.The
satellite platform operating in the Ku band and above. The paper “A QoS architecture for DVB-RCS next-generation
paperconsidershowMIMOcanbeusedtoincreasecapac- satellitenetworks”proceedstodesignandemulateaquality-
ity by using a satellite spatial multiplexing system and how of-service (QoS) architecture that demonstrates using real
antenna selection can be used to mitigate interference. The multimedia applications how QoS can be supported over a
nextpaper“InvestigationsinsatelliteMIMOchannelmodel- DVB-RCSnetwork.
2 EURASIPJournalonWirelessCommunicationsandNetworking
Synchronization aspects are dealt with in “Maximum
likelihoodtimingandcarriersynchronizationinburst-mode
satellitetransmissions.”Thepaperaddressestheproblemof
achieving synchronisation for a burst-mode satellite trans-
missionoveranAWGNchannel.Thesubjectofbursttrans-
mission continues with the paper “Burst format design for
optimum joint estimation of Doppler-shift and Doppler-
rate in packet satellite communications,” which considers
optimising the burst-format of packet-oriented transmis-
sionsbyproposingvery-low-complexityalgorithmsforcar-
rierDoppler-shiftandDoppler-rateestimation.
A network comprising satellite and high-altitude plat-
forms is considered in the paper “TCP-call admission con-
trolinteractioninmultiplatformspacearchitectures.”Cross-
layertechniquesareimplementedbymeansofTCPfeeding
back into call admission control (CAC) procedures for the
purpose of prevention of congestion and improvement in
QoS.
Finally, since navigation is an extremely important part
of the satellite system family, we have included two papers.
Thefirstpaper“Efficientdelaytrackingmethodswithside-
lobescancellationforBOC-modulatedsignals”dealswithbi-
nary offset carrier (BOC) modulation, which is adopted in
typicalnavigationsystems.Thepaperconsidershowtoim-
provethetrackingofthemainlobeoftheBOC-modulated
signalbyusingsidelobesuppressiontechniques.Analterna-
tiveapproachbasedonfilterbankprocessingispresentedin
“Analysis of filter-bank-based methods for fast serial acqui-
sitionofBOC-modulatedsignals”toconcludethespecialis-
sue.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
It has been a pleasure for us to have put together this spe-
cialissue,whichwehopeyouwillfindinteresting.Wewould
like to thank the editorial staff at Hindawi for their sup-
portandassistanceduringthepreparationofthisspecialis-
sue.Wewouldliketothankthecontributingauthorsforthe
excellent quality of their submissions and our SatNEx col-
leagues for their valuable assistance in the reviewing of pa-
pers. SatNEx is partially funded by the European Commis-
sion under the Sixth Framework Programme. Further in-
formationonSatNExcanbefoundontheprojectwebsite:
http://www.satnex.org/.
RayE.Sheriff
AntonDonner
AlessandroVanelli-Coralli
HindawiPublishingCorporation
EURASIPJournalonWirelessCommunicationsandNetworking
Volume2007,ArticleID59608,11pages
doi:10.1155/2007/59608
Research Article
Multi-Satellite MIMO Communications at Ku-Band and
Above: Investigations on Spatial Multiplexing for Capacity
Improvement and Selection Diversity for
Interference Mitigation
KonstantinosP.Liolis,AthanasiosD.Panagopoulos,andPanayotisG.Cottis
Wireless&SatelliteCommunicationsGroup,SchoolofElectricalandComputerEngineering,NationalTechnicalUniversityofAthens
(NTUA),9IroonPolytechniouStreet,Zografou,Athens15780,Greece
Received28August2006;Revised2March2007;Accepted13May2007
RecommendedbyAlessandroVanelli-Coralli
Thispaperinvestigatestheapplicabilityofmultiple-inputmultiple-output(MIMO)technologytosatellitecommunicationsatthe
Ku-bandandabove.AfterintroducingthepossiblediversitysourcestoformaMIMOmatrixchannelinasatelliteenvironment,
particularemphasisisputonsatellitediversity.TwospecificdifferenttopicsfromthefieldofMIMOtechnologyapplicationsto
satellitecommunicationsatthesefrequenciesarefurtheranalyzed:(i)capacityimprovementachievedbyMIMOspatialmulti-
plexingsystemsand(ii)interferencemitigationachievedbyMIMOdiversitysystemsemployingreceiveantennaselection.Inthe
firstcase,asingle-usercapacityanalysisofasatellite2×2MIMOspatialmultiplexingsystemispresentedandausefulanalytical
closedformexpressionisderivedfortheoutagecapacityachieved.Inthesecondcase,asatellite2×2MIMOdiversitysystemwith
receiveantennaselectionisconsidered,adjacentsatellitecochannelinterferenceonitsforwardlinkisstudiedandananalytical
modelpredictingtheinterferencemitigationachievedispresented.Inbothcases,anappropriatephysicalMIMOchannelmodelis
assumedwhichtakesintoaccountthepropagationphenomenarelatedtothefrequenciesofinterest,suchasclearline-of-sightop-
eration,highantennadirectivity,theeffectofrainfading,andtheslantpathlengthsdifference.Usefulnumericalresultsobtained
throughtheanalyticalexpressionsderivedarepresentedtocomparetheperformanceofmulti-satelliteMIMOsystemstorelevant
single-inputsingle-output(SISO)ones.
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1. INTRODUCTION MIMObothasaresearchtopicandasacommerciallyviable
technologyinterrestrialcommunications[1,2].
Multiple-inputmultiple-output(MIMO)technologyhasre- The appealing gains obtained by MIMO techniques in
cently emerged as one of the most significant technical terrestrialnetworksgenerateafurtherinterestininvestigat-
breakthroughsinmoderndigitalcommunicationsduetoits ing the possibility of applying the same principle in satel-
promiseofveryhighdataratesatnocostofextraspectrum lite networks, as well. However, the underlying differences
and transmit power [1, 2]. Wireless communication can be betweentheterrestrialandthesatellitechannelsmakesuch
benefited from MIMO signaling in two different ways: spa- applicability a non straightforward matter and, therefore, a
tialmultiplexing anddiversity.Intheformercase,indepen- rather challenging subject. In this case, one of the funda-
dentdataistransmittedfromseparateantennas,andaiming mentalproblemsisthedifficultyofgeneratingacompletely
atmaximizingthroughput(i.e.,linearcapacitygrowthwith independentfadingprofileoverthespacesegment.Insatel-
thenumberofantennascanbeachieved).Inthelattercase, litecommunications,duetothehugefreespacelossesalong
thesamesignalistransmittedalongmultiple(ideally)inde- theearth-spacelink,line-of-sight(LOS)operationisusually
pendently fading paths aiming at improving the robustness deemed a practical necessity. However, this is not the typ-
of the link in terms of each user BER performance. These ical case in terrestrial communications where rich scatter-
advantages have been largely responsible for the success of ingandnon-LOSenvironmentswithmultipathpropagation