Superposition Coding Based Wireless Network Coding Scheme for Two-Way Cooperative Relaying

Megumi KANEKO
Kazunori HAYASHI
Hideaki SAKAI

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E93-B    No.12    pp.3354-3361
Publication Date: 2010/12/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
DOI: 10.1587/transcom.E93.B.3354
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Wireless Distributed Networks)
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Keyword: 
relay system,  wireless network coding,  superposition coding,  cooperative diversity,  

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Summary: 
Recent advances in cooperative communication and wireless Network Coding (NC) may lead to huge performance gains in relay systems. In this context, we focus on the two-way relay scenario, where two nodes exchange information via a common relay. We design a practical Superposition Coding (SC) based NC scheme for Decode-and-Forward (DF) half-duplex relaying, where the goal is to increase the achievable rate. By taking advantage of the direct link and by providing a suboptimal yet efficient power division among the superposed layers, our proposed SC two-way relaying scheme outperforms the reference schemes, including the well-known 3-step DF-NC scheme and the capacity of 2-step schemes for a large set of SNRs, while approaching closely the performance bound.