Data Detection in Multisatellite Communication Systems

This paper deals with the practical aspects of development of multisatellite communication system. Specifically, the problem of data detection in multisatellite communication system is discussed in this paper. All satellites want to communicate to a particular earth station (ES). A novel interference cancellation method is used to obtain the data of different satellites at the ES. Based on the standard moment generating function approach, the proposed system is evaluated by analyzing the symbol error rate, diversity order, and average capacity. It is shown through simulation and analysis that the number of antennas at the ES should be sufficiently large as compared to the number of satellites in order to achieve good performance and improved diversity gain and average capacity. It is also shown that the diversity order of the considered system does not depend upon the shadowing environment. By placing more antennas at the ES, the effect of channel (shadowing) can be compensated.