Optimal and Suboptimal Joint Relay and Antenna Selection for Two-Way Amplify-and-Forward Relaying

Abstract

This paper investigates joint relay and antenna selection schemes for two-way amplify-and-forward (AF) relaying system, where a multiantenna source exchanges information with a single-antenna source by exploiting a group of single-antenna relays. In view of performance and complexity tradeoffs, two optimal and one suboptimal joint selection schemes are proposed and compared. In contrast to the optimal selection schemes, the suboptimal counterpart is characterized by its low overhead and implementation complexity. The performance of these selection strategies has been investigated by deriving the outage probability approximations in closed form. Moreover, the achievable diversity orders and the corresponding coding gains are derived through high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) approximations of the outage probability. Our theoretical and simulation results show that the performance gap between the optimal and suboptimal schemes disappears for specific scenarios, which provides useful design guidelines for practical two-way relaying system.