Computer Science – Networking and Internet Architecture
Scientific paper
2011-12-21
Computer Science
Networking and Internet Architecture
18 pages, submitted
Scientific paper
We investigate the design of a broadcast system in order to maximise the throughput. This task is usually challenging due to the channel variability. Forty years ago, Cover introduced and compared two schemes: time sharing and superposition coding. Even if the second scheme was proved to be optimal for some channels, modern satellite communications systems such as DVB-SH and DVB-S2 mainly rely on time sharing strategy to optimize the throughput. They consider hierarchical modulation, a practical implementation of superposition coding, but only for unequal error protection or backward compatibility purposes. We propose in this article to combine time sharing and hierarchical modulation together and show how this scheme can improve the performance in terms of available rate. We introduce the hierarchical 16-APSK to boost the performance of the DVB-S2 standard. We also evaluate various strategies to group the receivers in pairs when using hierarchical modulation. Finally, we show in a realistic use case based on DVB-S2 that the combined scheme can provide throughput gains greater than 10% compared to the best time sharing strategy.
Arnal Fabrice
Boucheret Marie-Laure
Lacan Jerome
Lesthievent Guy
Meric Hugo
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