Performance analysis of two‐way decode‐and‐forward relaying in the presence of co‐channel interferences

Abstract

This study investigates the performance of two-way decode-and-forward (DF) relaying networks, considering transmissions over independent but not necessarily identically distributed (i.n.i.d.) Rayleigh fading channels, in the presence of multiple co-channel interferers at both the relay and end-source nodes. Both asymmetrical and symmetrical cases, of whether the channels from source terminals to the relay are identically distributed or not, are considered. Specifically, closed-form expressions for the cumulative distribution function of the equivalent signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) in different cases are derived, based on which the exact symbol error probability (SEP) and the systems’ achievable rate are derived and analysed. Based on the analytic results, the authors study the impacts of system parameters, such as interference power and number of interferers on the performance of the system. Furthermore, the system behavior at high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) values is studied via deriving the asymptotic SEP. The results of this study are attested through Monte Carlo simulations.