Message-Splitting for Interference Cancellation in Multibeam Satellite Systems

This paper investigates a novel technique to deal with the interference in the forward link of multibeam satellite systems when aggressive frequency reuse schemes are employed. Taking into account only magnitude information about the forward channel, the gateway judiciously splits the messages to be transmitted into private and public parts. At the receive terminals, partial cancellation of the public messages is applied prior to private message detection. The practical significance of the absence of channel phase information is stressed and complemented by some additional insights on the implementation. Our numerical results show that, in terms of average total throughput, this technique combined with a 2-colour frequency reuse scheme can outperform a classic orthogonal system with a conservative 4-colour frequency reuse scheme, despite the additional co-channel interference.