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This paper studies the application of Beam Hopping (BH) as a key enabler to provide high level of flexibility to manage scarce on-board resources, particularly power, based on the irregular and time variant traffic requests/demands distributed within the coverage of a satellite multibeam system. However, while high throughput full frequency reuse pattern is employed among beams, the performance of BH is significantly degraded due to the generated inter-beam interference, and applying precoding is essential. In this context, we propose Joint Precoding and BH (J-PBH) in a multibeam system.

Satellite system is regarded as important part of 5G networks. Software Defined Satellite Networking (SDSN), utilizing the advantages of Software Defined Networking (SDN), as believed in former work, can provide better performance. Different SDN architectures based on either multi-layer satellite constellation or sing-layer constellation have been proposed and the key technology has been validated. However, characteristics of satellites such as high propagation delay and coverage characteristics pose some problems on the network performance.