| Title | Dissection of multibeam satellite communications with a large-scale antenna system toolbox |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2014 |
| Authors | Arnau, J, Mosquera, C |
| Conference Name | European Wireless 2014 (EW2014) |
| Pages | 548-553 |
| Conference Location | Barcelona, Spain |
| Keywords | dynacs, large-scale analysis, Massive MIMO, multibeam satellites, Multiuser detection, satcom |
| Abstract | Current multibeam satellite systems consist of a very large number of spot beams. In this paper, we analyze them from the large scale MIMO perspective, and establish a comparison with massive MIMO systems. It will be shown that the large number of beams has important operational implications, and that it simplifies the analysis because it allows using asymptotic results. However, it will also be shown that multibeam satellite systems cannot be considered massive MIMO systems. |
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