Abstract
This letter considers a multi-user wireless communication system employing physical network coding (PNC), where a pair of users communicates with each other via a relay. To attain reliable communication over time varying channels, we apply an opportunistic scheduling scheme for the PNC to both the broadcast channel phase and the multiple access channel phase. We propose two criteria for selecting users based on the channel norm and the minimum distance. Also, an efficient method to compute the minimum distance for superposed QPSK signals is introduced. Simulation results show that the proposed scheduling for PNC provides a significant improvement over conventional schemes.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 6153329 |
Pages (from-to) | 1290-1294 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications |
Volume | 11 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2012 Apr |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Manuscript received June 23, 2011; revised November 1, 2011 and January 7, 2012; accepted January 12, 2012. The associate editor coordinating the review of this paper and approving it for publication was J. Luo. Y. Jeon, Y.-T. Kim, and I. Lee are with the School of Electrical Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Korea (e-mail: {dreamdx, reftm, inkyu}@korea.ac.kr). M. Park was with the School of Electrical Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Korea. He is now with the Department of Electronics Engineering, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea (e-mail: [email protected]). This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea Government (MEST) (No. 2010-0017909). A part of this work was presented at the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Budapest, Hungary, May 2011 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TWC.2012.021412.111189
Keywords
- Physical network coding
- opportunistic scheduling
- two-way relay systems
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computer Science Applications
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Applied Mathematics