Abstract

In this paper, a vertical physical-layer network coding (VPNC) scheme based pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) for two-way relay channel (TWRC) is proposed. Different from the conventional physical layer network coding (PNC) scheme in which the relay superimposes two users' signals of the same constellation, in the proposed VPNC scheme two users transmit PAM signals with vertical constellation and the relay superimposes two signals of vertical constellation in the multiple access (MA) phase. In addition, when the VPNC is exploited in conjunction with channel coding, joint channel VPNC is proposed to further improve the BER performance. Simulation results show that the proposed VPNC scheme outperforms the conventional PNC scheme on BER performance.

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