  This paper deals with multi-user detection techniques in asynchronous
multibeam satellite communications. The proposed solutions are based on
successive interference cancellation architecture (SIC) and channel decoding
algorithms. The aim of these detection methods is to reduce the effect of
cochannel interference due to co-frequency access, and consequently, improves
the capacity of the mulitbeam communications systems, by improving frequency
reuse. Channel estimation allows the determination of interference
coefficients, which helps their effects compensation. The developed multiuser
detections techniques are iterative. Therefore, detection quality is improved
from a stage to another. Moreover, a signals combining method, which is
integrated into these detection solutions, enhances their capability. The
proposed solutions are evaluated through computer simulations, where an
asynchronous multibeam satellite link is considered over an AWGN channel. The
obtained simulation results showed the robustness of these multi-user detection
techniques.
