Satellite communications in the new space era: A survey and future challenges

O Kodheli, E Lagunas, N Maturo… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Satellite communications (SatComs) have recently entered a period of renewed interest
motivated by technological advances and nurtured through private investment and ventures …

Direct-to-satellite IoT-a survey of the state of the art and future research perspectives: Backhauling the IoT through LEO satellites

JA Fraire, S Céspedes, N Accettura - … Conference on Ad-Hoc Networks and …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract The Internet of Things (IoT) has drawn an enormous attention into the scientific
community thanks to unimaginable before applications newly available in everyday life. The …

UAV-assisted physical layer security in multi-beam satellite-enabled vehicle communications

Z Yin, M Jia, N Cheng, W Wang, F Lyu… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we investigate unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assisted physical layer security
in multi-beam satellite enabled vehicle communications. Particularly, the UAV is exploited as …

Rate-splitting for multi-antenna non-orthogonal unicast and multicast transmission: Spectral and energy efficiency analysis

Y Mao, B Clerckx, VOK Li - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In a Non-Orthogonal Unicast and Multicast (NOUM) transmission system, a multicast stream
intended to all the receivers is superimposed in the power domain on the unicast streams …

Dynamic beam hopping method based on multi-objective deep reinforcement learning for next generation satellite broadband systems

X Hu, Y Zhang, X Liao, Z Liu, W Wang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
When regarding the inherent uncertainty of differentiated services requirements as well as
the non-uniform spatial distribution of capacity requests, it is essential to flexibility adjust …

Rate-splitting multiple access for multigroup multicast and multibeam satellite systems

L Yin, B Clerckx - IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work focuses on the promising Rate-Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) and its
beamforming design problem to achieve max-min fairness (MMF) among multiple co …

Rate-splitting for max-min fair multigroup multicast beamforming in overloaded systems

H Joudeh, B Clerckx - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we consider the problem of achieving max-min fairness amongst multiple co-
channel multicast groups through transmit beamforming. We explicitly focus on overloaded …

Signal processing for high-throughput satellites: Challenges in new interference-limited scenarios

AI Perez-Neira, MA Vazquez… - IEEE Signal …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The field of satellite communications (SatCom) is enjoying renewed attention in the global
telecommunications market, and high-throughput satellites, with their multiple spot beams …

Symbol-level and multicast precoding for multiuser multiantenna downlink: A state-of-the-art, classification, and challenges

M Alodeh, D Spano, A Kalantari… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Precoding has been conventionally considered as an effective means of mitigating or
exploiting the interference in the multiantenna downlink channel, where multiple users are …

MIMO applications for multibeam satellites

RT Schwarz, T Delamotte, KU Storek… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High throughput satellites employing multibeam antennas and full frequency reuse for
broadband satellite services are considered in this paper. Such architectures offer, for …