Robust Transceiver Design for AF Asymmetric Two-Way MIMO Relaying

We consider a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) asymmetric two-way relay (A-TWR) system, wherein the base station (BS) serves a transmit-only user (TU) and receive-only user (RU). The TU transmits data to the BS and the RU receives data from the BS. Because of the asymmetric nature of A-TWR, the RU experiences interference and necessitates a joint transceiver design at the TU, RU, and relay. The existing literature has designed such transceivers by assuming perfect channel state information (CSI) at all the nodes. Obtaining perfect CSI at all the nodes is, however, not viable in practice due to the distributed nature of the system. This work constructs a transceiver design with perfect CSI at the relay and perturbed CSI at the TU, RU and BS. The perturbed signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) is analyzed by exploiting the properties of the singular value decomposition and the results from theory of matrix normal distributions. The resulting closed-form SINR expressions are then used to perform robust power allocation at all the nodes. Two different settings, namely maximization of the minimum SINR across all streams and minimization of the total network transmit power are considered. The performance gains from the proposed robust designs are validated numerically.