Iterative Mitigation of Nonlinear Co-Channel Interference in High-Efficiency Multibeam Satellite Systems

A communications apparatus to resolve a composite signal including an induced nonlinear distortion, a desired signal and interferer signals, wherein the desired signal includes desired symbols and the interferer signals include interferer symbols using N frameworks, each framework including a detector to partition the desired symbols and the interferer symbols based on an interference severity into a dominant group and a non-dominant group, and to generate A Posteriori Probabilities (APP) of the desired symbols and the interferer symbols, wherein the detector of each of the N frameworks generates the APP based on a feedback of the APP from each of the N frameworks, and the detector reduces the induced nonlinear distortion of the desired signal using a nonlinear mathematical model such as Volterra series.