Assessment of Practical Smart Gateway Diversity Based on Multi-Site Measurements in Q/V band

Next generations of high throughput satellite (HTS) systems operating a $Q$ -/ $V$ -band network of gateways (GWs) for the feeder link need to apply some form of smart gateway diversity (SGD) to ensure they meet the demanding availability targets. However, most of the published research on SGD usually resorts to ideal assumptions that are not realistic for an operational system. To evaluate in mo...