articleIEEE Journal on Selected Areas in CommunicationsJun 8, 2020GREEN OA

Massive MIMO Transmission for LEO Satellite Communications

LYLi YouKLKe-Xin LiJWJiaheng WangXGXiqi GaoXXXiang-Gen Xia

Purple Mountain Laboratories · Southeast University · +2 more institutions

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Abstract

Low earth orbit (LEO) satellite communications are expected to be incorporated in future wireless networks, in particular 5G and beyond networks, to provide global wireless access with enhanced data rates. Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) techniques, though widely used in terrestrial communication systems, have not been applied to LEO satellite communication systems. In this paper, we propose a massive MIMO transmission scheme with full frequency reuse (FFR) for LEO satellite communication systems and exploit statistical channel state information (sCSI) to address the difficulty of obtaining instantaneous CSI (iCSI) at the transmitter. We first establish the massive MIMO channel model for LEO…

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  • LY
    Li YouCorresponding

    Purple Mountain Laboratories, Southeast University

  • KL
    Ke-Xin Li

    Purple Mountain Laboratories, Southeast University

  • JW
    Jiaheng Wang

    Purple Mountain Laboratories, Southeast University

  • XG
    Xiqi Gao

    Purple Mountain Laboratories, Southeast University

  • XX
    Xiang-Gen Xia

    University of Delaware

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Keywords
  • Telecommunications link
  • MIMO
  • Communications satellite
  • Transmission (telecommunications)
  • Channel state information
  • Satellite
  • Channel (broadcasting)
  • Data transmission
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