Applicability of MIMO to satellite communications

Multi-Satellite MIMO Communications at Ku-Band and Above: Investigations on Spatial Multiplexing for Capacity Improvement and Selection Diversity for Interference Mitigation

This paper investigates the applicability of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology to satellite communications at the Ku-band and above. After introducing the possible diversity sources to form a MIMO matrix channel in a satellite environment, particular emphasis is put on satellite diversity. Two specific different topics from the field of MIMO technology applications to satellite c...

Design of MIMO Satellite System: Inter-antenna Spacing Determination and Possible Enhancement of Capacity

MIMO(Multiple Input Multiple Output) technology was found to exploit the channel richness and spatial diversity, its possible to increase data throughput and reduce the error probability[1]. MIMO channel capacity was derived by Teletar in [2], MIMO find its application in many technology such as HSPA and WLAN. Recent research were devoted to applicability of MIMO to satellite communication and ...

MIMO Channel Reconstruction from Lower Dimensional Multiple Antenna Measurements

A method for reconstructing multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channel correlation matrices from lower dimensional channel measurements is presented. Exploiting the symmetry of correlation matrix structure enables reproducing higher dimensional MIMO channel matrices from available lower order measurements. This leads to practically important applications allowing prediction of higher dimensi...

Physical-statistical model for the land mobile-satellite channel applied to satellite/HAP-MIMO

This paper derives a physicalstatistical land mobile-satellite/HAP propagation channel model that can predict joint statistical time series and power-spatial-delay profile data in a multi-antenna mobile, multi-satellite scenario, and is compared with published measurement data. The model is then used to estimate the required satellite and HAP antenna separation to achieve an uncorrelated Satell...

Modelling and Measurement Analysis of the Satellite MIMO Radio Channel