TY - CONF T1 - Dissection of multibeam satellite communications with a large-scale antenna system toolbox T2 - European Wireless 2014 (EW2014) Y1 - 2014 A1 - Arnau, Jesus A1 - Carlos Mosquera KW - dynacs KW - large-scale analysis KW - Massive MIMO KW - multibeam satellites KW - Multiuser detection KW - satcom AB -

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.

JF - European Wireless 2014 (EW2014) CY - Barcelona, Spain ER -