“…Because of the increasing demand in various data exchanges, there has been a significant amount of research devoted to performance improvement of such systems, as reviewed in [22], such as the use of optical link techniques [19], the coordination of two co-localized satellites [7] or the design of multibeam array antennas [21]. The literature on solution approaches for power and frequency allocation problems is rather rich [18,11,12,23,24,1,14,10]. However, papers dealing with beam layout algorithms are not frequently published.…”