This paper deals with the performance evaluation of different packet scheduling schemes for Long Term Evolution\ud
mobile satellite systems based on the adoption of a multi-user MIMO technique. The major breakthrough of\ud
MIMO technology in terrestrial networks has motivated the interest here for the adoption of MIMO in mobile\ud
satellite systems as well. In particular, a land mobile dual-polarized GEO satellite system has been considered\ud
in this work. The aim of this paper is to propose new cross-layer packet scheduling schemes that achieve a good\ud
trade-off among throughput, QoS and fairness and to conduct performance comparisons with other scheduling\ud
schemes in the literature. This is the reason why this paper also proposes a new performance index that can be\ud
used to evaluate the overall performance of each scheduler. The work shows that the new cross-layer scheduler,\ud
called channel-based queue sensitive scheduler, attains the best performance in terms of the new comprehensive\ud
performance index, thus representing an interesting solution for future mobile satellite systems