In this paper, we study a communication system consisting of three end-nodes, e.g. a single transceiver base station (BS), one transmitting and one receiving user equipments (UEs), and a common two-way relay node (RN) wherein the full-duplex BS transmits to the receiving UE in downlink direction and receives from the transmitting UE in uplink direction with the help of the intermediate full-dup...

We investigate a scheduling scheme incorporating network coding and channel varying information for the twoway relay networks. Our scheduler aims at minimizing the time span needed to send all the data of each source of the network. We consider three channel models, time invariant channels, time varying channels with finite states and time varying Rayleigh fading channels. We formulate the prob...

In modern transmission networks, relay plays an important role for cooperative strategies. Several relaying strategies, such as decode-forward, compress-forward and amplify-forward, have been proposed for relay channels and networks. However, the capacity for the general relay channel and network is still unknown. In this thesis, we propose several relay schemes for different relay models. In t...

In this paper, we consider a Gaussian two-way relay channel (GTRC), where two sources exchange messages with each other through a relay. We assume that there is no direct link between sources, and all nodes operate in full-duplex mode. By utilizing nested lattice codes for the uplink (i.e., MAC phase), and structured binning for the downlink (i.e., broadcast phase), we propose two achievable sc...

We propose composite decode-forward (DF) schemes for the two-way relay channel in both the fulland half-duplex modes by combining coherent relaying, independent relaying and partial relaying strategies. For the full-duplex mode, the relay partially decodes each user’s information in each block and forwards this partial information coherently with the source user to the destination user in the n...

Robust Beamforming for OFDM Modulated Two-Way MIMO Relay Network. (May 2012) Jianwei Zhou, B.S., University of Hawaii at Manoa Chair of Advisory Committee: Shuguang Cui This thesis studies a two-way relay network (TWRN), which consists of two single antenna source nodes and a multi-antenna relay node. The source nodes exchange information via the assistance of the relay node in the middle. The ...

This paper considers a wireless energy harvesting two-way relay (TWR) network where the relay has energy-harvesting abilities and the effects of practical hardware impairments are taken into consideration. In particular, power splitting (PS) receiver is adopted at relay to harvests the power it needs for relaying the information between the source nodes from the signals transmitted by the sourc...

We consider the channel estimation for two-way relay OFDM networks. We proposed an LS-based channel estimation algorithm under block-based training schemes. Based on the mean square error (MSE) criterion, the condition and the design method for optimal training sequences are discussed. To reduce peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR), a special sequence called Zadoff-Chu sequence is employed to des...

Protocols applicable to bidirectional data transfer via satellite between two earth terminals are analyzed with respect to their achievable rate regions, an information-theoretic comparison. Protocols include amplify-forward, requiring no special satellite processing, and several variations of decode-forward, which necessitate satellite demodulation, decoding, and re-encoding. All such protocol...

Two-way relay network (TWRN) was introduced to realize high-data rate transmission and to improve spatial diversity over the frequency-selective fading channel. However, channel state information (CSI) is needed due to the requirement from coherent data detection and the self-data removal at terminals. Traditional training-based linear probing techniques are able to achieve the accurate CSI by ...