The dramatically increasing demand for high data rates necessitates the proper dimensioning of the feeder links of very or ultra high throughput satellite (V/UHTS) systems. However, because most of the current solutions rely on transparent payloads, the deployment of a very large number of spatially separated ground stations is necessary to support the total system bandwidth by enabling a full reuse of the scarce available uplink bandwidth. This approach has a significant impact on the complexity and the costs of the ground segment infrastructure. Regenerative payloads could be considered to avoid this design bottleneck. By allowing demodulation and decoding on-board the satellite, the favourable link budget conditions of feeder links compared to the user links can be exploited. Using a spectral efficient transmission technique, the number of ground stations required to support a target sum throughput can be notably reduced. Meanwhile, regenerative solutions have until now barely been used in V/UHTS payloads due to their high on-board power consumption. As a consequence, candidate solutions are proposed in this work to overcome this limitation. A non-coherent modulation technique, known as Differential Amplitude Phase Shift Keying (DAPSK), is introduced to avoid on-board carrier synchronization. Moreover, polar codes are considered to minimize the power consumption of the channel decoder. A preliminary analysis of the expected on-board power consumption compared to that of a standard DVB-S2 approach is conducted using available results in the open literature. Link performance is also evaluated via numerical simulations.

Regenerative approaches for V/UHTS feeder links: system analysis and on-board complexity reduction / Delamotte, T.; Taricco, G.; Alagha, N.; Mollaymeri, E.; Masera, G.; Garello, R.; Knopp, A.. - ELETTRONICO. - 2022:(2022), pp. 192-199. (Intervento presentato al convegno 39th International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC 2022) tenutosi a Stresa, Italy nel 18-21 October 2022) [10.1049/icp.2023.1385].

Regenerative approaches for V/UHTS feeder links: system analysis and on-board complexity reduction

Taricco G.;Masera G.;Garello R.;
2022

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The dramatically increasing demand for high data rates necessitates the proper dimensioning of the feeder links of very or ultra high throughput satellite (V/UHTS) systems. However, because most of the current solutions rely on transparent payloads, the deployment of a very large number of spatially separated ground stations is necessary to support the total system bandwidth by enabling a full reuse of the scarce available uplink bandwidth. This approach has a significant impact on the complexity and the costs of the ground segment infrastructure. Regenerative payloads could be considered to avoid this design bottleneck. By allowing demodulation and decoding on-board the satellite, the favourable link budget conditions of feeder links compared to the user links can be exploited. Using a spectral efficient transmission technique, the number of ground stations required to support a target sum throughput can be notably reduced. Meanwhile, regenerative solutions have until now barely been used in V/UHTS payloads due to their high on-board power consumption. As a consequence, candidate solutions are proposed in this work to overcome this limitation. A non-coherent modulation technique, known as Differential Amplitude Phase Shift Keying (DAPSK), is introduced to avoid on-board carrier synchronization. Moreover, polar codes are considered to minimize the power consumption of the channel decoder. A preliminary analysis of the expected on-board power consumption compared to that of a standard DVB-S2 approach is conducted using available results in the open literature. Link performance is also evaluated via numerical simulations.
2022
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