Interference Cancellation at the Relay in Two User Wireless Relay Networks

This paper is on interference cancellation (IC) schemes for a two-user relay network where users are allowed to communicate simultaneously. The considered networks have one double-antenna half-duplex relay, single-antenna receiver but three scenarios on both users: single-antenna, double-antenna, and four-antenna. We apply the IC scheme, which was originally proposed for multi-antenna multi-user direct communication systems, to multi-user relay networks and propose a protocol called IC-Relay-TDMA, in which the relay cancels user interference and then amplifies and forwards the interference-free (int-free) user information to the receiver in TDMA. The maximum likelihood (ML) decoding at the receiver can be conducted symbol by symbol for both networks with single-antenna users and double-antenna users. Compared to the full TDMA scheme in which each user is allocated different time slots from end to end to avoid interference, IC-Relay-TDMA achieves the same diversity with a higher symbol rate when both users have two or four antennas.

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