Resources Management using Adaptive Fade Mitigation Techniques in DVB-S2/RCS Multi-Beam Systems

[Abstract] A powerful and flexible software radio resource management (RRM) simulator suited for modelling a realistic Ka-band multi-beam DVB-S2/RCS system with European coverage is described. The simulator enables design, optimisation and trade-off of RRM techniques that are suitable for the DVB-S2 and an enhanced adaptive DVB-RCS standards which allow efficiently counteracting the link quality variations and thus fully exploiting the adaptive physical layer resulting from the use of adaptive coding and modulation (ACM) while providing Quality of Service (QoS) support.