Joint Transmit/Receive MMSE-FDE for MIMO Analog Network Coding in Single-Carrier Bi-Directional Relay Communications

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a joint transmit/receive frequency-domain equalization (FDE) based on minimum mean square error (MMSE) criterion for multi-input multi-output (MIMO) analog network coding (ANC) in single-carrier (SC) bi-directional relay communications. In the proposed scheme, the relay station (RS) equipped with multiple antennas carries out antenna diversity and one-tap transmit FDE, and the base station (BS) and mobile terminal (MT) receivers, both equipped with single antenna, carry out one-tap receive FDE only. The FDE weights at RS, BS and MT are jointly optimized so as to minimize the end-to-end mean square error (MSE). We evaluate, by computer simulations, the bit error rate (BER) performance when using the proposed scheme, and discuss how the transmit FDE at RS operates and affects the BER performance.