Performance analysis of two-way full-duplex relay with antenna selection under Nakagami channels

Abstract

Abstract This paper focuses on a full-duplex (FD) two-way relay network with one base station (BS), one FD amplify-and-forward (AF) relay, and one user, and the BS is equipped with massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antennas. To reduce the complexity and cost of BS, the paper proposes a practical antenna selection way in BS to complete transmission in two-way FD relay networks to optimize the system performance of outage probability or bit error ratio (BER). In the proposed scheme, BS can implement transmit antenna selection (AS) based on the instantaneous channel state information (CSI), thereby improving the system performance compared to the traditional FD relay networks. Furthermore, closed-form expressions for the outage probability and average BER are derived under Nakagami-m channels. The analytical results show that the superiority of proposed scheme compared with the conventional AF relay scheme and the correctness of the theoretical analysis verified by the Monte Carlo simulations.

Keywords

• Full-duplex relay
• Amplify-and-forward relay
• Antenna selection
• Outage probability
• Bit error rate