Optimal beamforming for two-way multi-antenna relay channel with analogue network coding

  • Authors:

  • Rui Zhang;Ying-Chang Liang;Chin Choy Chai;Shuguang Cui

  • Affiliations:

  • Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore;Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore;Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, Texas

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications - Special issue on network coding for wireless communication networks
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This paper studies the wireless two-way relay channel (TWRC), where two source nodes, S1 and S2, exchange information through an assisting relay node, R. It is assumed that R receives the sum signal from S1 and S2 in one time-slot, and then amplifies and forwards the received signal to both S1 and S2 in the next time-slot. By applying the principle of analogue network coding (ANC), each of S1 and S2 cancels the so-called "self-interference" in the received signal from R and then decodes the desired message. Assuming that S1 and S2 are each equipped with a single antenna and R with multi-antennas, this paper analyzes the capacity region of the ANC-based TWRC with linear processing (beamforming) at R. The capacity region contains all the achievable bidirectional rate-pairs of S1 and S2 under the given transmit power constraints at S1, S2, and R. We present the optimal relay beamforming structure as well as an efficient algorithm to compute the optimal beamforming matrix based on convex optimization techniques. Low-complexity suboptimal relay beamforming schemes are also presented, and their achievable rates are compared against the capacity with the optimal scheme.