Application of Analog Network Coding to MIMO Two-Way Relay Channel in Cellular Systems

An efficient analog network coding transmission protocol is proposed in this letter for a MIMO two way cellular network. Block signal alignment is first proposed to null the inter-user interference for multi-antenna users, which makes the dimensions of aligned space larger compared with the existing signal alignment. Two algorithms are developed to jointly design the precoding matrices at the relay and BS for outage optimization. The performance of this transmission protocol is also verified by simulations.

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