Dimitrov, S.S.DimitrovErl, S.S.ErlBarth, B.B.BarthJaeckel, S.S.JaeckelKyrgiazos, A.A.KyrgiazosEvans, B.G.B.G.Evans2022-03-132022-03-132015https://publica.fraunhofer.de/handle/publica/39183610.1109/EuCNC.2015.7194063In this paper, interference-aware radio resource management (RRM) algorithms are presented for the forward and return links of geostationary orbit (GEO) high throughput satellite (HTS) communication system. For the feeder link, satellite-switched smart gateway diversity is combined with two scheduling methods to improve the feeder link availability in rain conditions. For the user link, interference-aware scheduling (IAS) for the forward link and scheduling based on multi-partite graph matching for the return link are shown to enable full frequency reuse (FR) multi-beam satellite systems. The performance assessment of scheduling algorithms is carried out in a system-level simulator with realistic channel models and system assumptions. The improvements of the system capacity and user rates are evaluated.enconference paper