Joint power and bandwidth allocation for beam-hopping user downlinks in smart gateway multibeam satellite systems

To improve the efficiency of on-board resources utilization, two joint power and bandwidth allocation schemes are proposed to optimize power and timeslot allocation for beam-hopping user downlinks of the smart gateway system. By decomposing the two-variable optimization problem into two single variable optimization problems, the joint optimization problem is solved effectively. Moreover, two novel algorithms are proposed to solve the two subproblems. Extensive simulation results demonstrate that the efficiency of resource utilization can be effectively improved with the joint power and bandwidth allocation schemes in contrast with conventional allocation scheme.