A Dynamic Codebook Design for Analog Beamforming in MIMO LEO Satellite Communications

Abstract

Beamforming gain is a key ingredient in the performance of LEO satellite communication systems to be integrated into cellular networks. However, beam codebooks previously designed in the context of MIMO communication for terrestrial networks, do not provide the appropriate performance in terms of inter-beam interference and gain stability as the satellite moves. In this paper, we propose a dynamic codebook that provides a stable gain during the period of time that the satellite covers a given cell, while avoiding link retraining and extra calculation as the satellite moves. In addition, the proposed codebook provides a higher signal-to-interference-plus-noise (SINR) ratio than those DFT codebooks commonly used in cellular systems.