Reference : Gateway Switching in Q/V Band Satellite Feeder Links

	Document type :	Scientific journals : Article
	Discipline(s) :	Engineering, computing & technology : Electrical & electronics engineering
	To cite this reference:	http://hdl.handle.net/10993/2853

Title :	Gateway Switching in Q/V Band Satellite Feeder Links
Language :	English
Author, co-author :	Gharanjik, Ahmad [University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > >]
	Shankar, Bhavani [University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > >]
	Arapoglou, Pantelis-Daniel [ESA > ESTEC]
	Ottersten, Björn [University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > >]
Publication date :	4-Jul-2013
Journal title :	IEEE Communications Letters
Publisher :	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Volume :	17
Issue/season :	7
Pages :	1384-1387
Peer reviewed :	Yes (verified by ORBilu)
Audience :	International
ISSN :	1089-7798
City :	New York
Country :	NY
Keywords :	[en] Gateway Switching ; Switch and Stay Combining ; Q/V Band ; Satellite Communication ; Feeder Link
Abstract :	[en] A main challenge towards realizing the next generation Terabit/s broadband satellite communications (SatCom) is the limited spectrum available in the Ka band. An attractive solution is to move the feeder link to the higher Q/V band, where more spectrum is available. When utilizing the Q/V band, due to heavy rain attenuation, gateway diversity is considered a necessity to ensure the required feeder link availability. Although receive site diversity has been studied in the past for SatCom, there is much less maturity in terms of transmit diversity techniques. In this paper, a modified switch and stay combining scheme is proposed for a Q/V band feeder link, but its performance is also evaluated over an end-to-end satellite link. The proposed scheme is pragmatic and has close to optimal performance with notably lower complexity.
Research centres :	SnT
Target :	Researchers ; Professionals ; Students ; General public
Permalink :	http://hdl.handle.net/10993/2853
DOI :	10.1109/LCOMM.2013.052413.130632
Other URL :	http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6522942

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