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Growing interest in multimedia fixed applications calls for the development of point-to-point satellite systems capable of providing high-speed links at a competitive price. In order to meet this goal, next generation broadband satellite systems need to significantly increase their overall throughput. From a system point of view, this leads to the utilization of high frequency bands (eg the Ka-band) and to the deployment of a large number of beams per satellite to increase to overall system bandwidth.

Systems performances are, as a consequence more, and more affected by intra-system interference, as the same frequency band is reused by multiple beams. From a physical layer perspective, highly efficient coding schemes are already used in the Reverse Link (RL) of current DVB-RCS [1] satellite systems and will be soon deployed in the Forward Link (FL) thanks to the new DVB-S2 [2] transmission standard. Furthermore …