The invention provides a method of providing a beam illumination schedule for controlling the transmission of signals of a multibeam broadband satellite. The assumptions underlying the method provide a realistic setting and consider frequency reuse among beams, co-channel interference and precoding for mitigating the latter. The method allows for flexible resource allocation in terms of allocated capacity and satellite power among multiple beams, while at the same tame taking into account heterogeneous traffic demands among the beams.
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