Faster-than-Nyquist (FTN) signaling appears as an attractive method to improve spectral efficiency at the price of an increased complexity at the receiver. The receiver generally implements a turbo-equalization/detection scheme to benefit from all the promises of the FTN signaling. However, this is not the only limitation we have to deal with. Indeed, compressing in the time domain impact the emitted signal and it usually results in an increase of the envelope fluctuations. This leads to an inherent multi-objectives trade-off between performance, targeted spectral efficiency and limited Peak to Average Power Ratio (PAPR). The last aspect is crucial when considering a satellite communication link due to non-linear amplification effects that can occur on-board the satellite. Usually, FTN studies focus on spectral efficiency increase for a fixed modulation order, trying to trade-off between performance and PAPR properties. In this paper, we show that, for a given asymptotic spectral efficiency, we can compress low order modulations to increase the spectral efficiency of these schemes while controlling the PAPR increase to achieve a better PAPR than the non compressed scheme with a higher modulation order. Thus, for the same asymptotic spectral efficiency, we can achieve 1 dB gain in terms of PAPR and 2 dB gain in Bit Error Rate (BER) performances for a coded 8-PSK FTN system compared to a coded 16-APSK. For the same BER performances, the asymptotic spectral efficiency gain obtained in linear context is over 20 %, higher when nonlinearities are taken into account.

The latest standardization DVB-S2X increases the achievable spectral efficiency of the satellite communications by around 15% in AWGN channel. In order to benefit from those improvements, the strong non-linear distortions introduced by the payload have to be overcome, mostly taking high back-off on the amplifier operation point. Nowadays, on-board amplifiers are linearized before being deployed, allowing low-complexity transmitters and receivers at the detriment of the payload's cost and reduced energy efficiency. In this paper, various techniques are investigated for the purpose of spectral efficiency improvement while releasing the amplifier linearization constraint. Iterative pre-distortion at the transmitter, turbo-equalization at the receiver and appropriate waveforms for transmission through non-linearized payload appear as strong candidates considering the results of this study.

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