Beamforming in Two-Way Fixed Gain Amplify-and-Forward Relay Systems with CCI

TL;DR

This paper evaluates the outage performance of a two-way AF relay system with beamforming, considering antenna correlation and CCI, providing exact and asymptotic outage probability expressions to understand system robustness.

Contribution

It derives exact and asymptotic outage probability formulas for a two-way AF relay system with beamforming, antenna correlation, and CCI, highlighting the relay's position impact.

Findings

Relay position significantly affects outage probability.

Antenna correlation and CCI influence diversity and array gains.

Asymptotic expressions closely match exact outage probabilities.

Abstract

We analyze the outage performance of a two-way fixed gain amplify-and-forward (AF) relay system with beamforming, arbitrary antenna correlation, and co-channel interference (CCI). Assuming CCI at the relay, we derive the exact individual user outage probability in closed-form. Additionally, while neglecting CCI, we also investigate the system outage probability of the considered network, which is declared if any of the two users is in transmission outage. Our results indicate that in this system, the position of the relay plays an important role in determining the user as well as the system outage probability via such parameters as signal-to-noise imbalance, antenna configuration, spatial correlation, and CCI power. To render further insights into the effect of antenna correlation and CCI on the diversity and array gains, an asymptotic expression which tightly converges to exact results is also derived.