Multi-pair two-way relay channel with multiple antenna relay station

Yilmaz, Erhan; Zakhour, Randa; Gesbert, David; Knopp, Raymond

ICC 2010, IEEE International Conference on Communications, 23-27 May, 2010, Cape Town, South Africa

We consider a multi-pair two-way relay channel (TWRC) where the single-antenna mobile terminals (MT) on each pair seek to communicate, and can do so, via a common multiple antenna relay station (RS). In the multi-pair TWRC, the main bottleneck on system performance is the interference seen by each MT due to the other communicating MT pairs. In this paper, we try to tackle this problem in the spatial domain by using multiple antennas at the RS. Considering Amplify-and-Forward (AF) and Quantize-and-Forward (QF) relaying strategies, different transmit/receive beamforming schemes at the RS are proposed. We compare our proposed schemes to each other and to the Decode-and-Forward (DF) relaying strategy with achievable sum rate taken as a performance metric and show that in a wide range of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) our schemes outperform the DF relaying strategy.

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Conférence

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Cape Town

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2010-05-23

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Systèmes de Communication

Eurecom Ref:

2996

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