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http://dx.doi.org/10.6109/jicce.2010.8.6.655

A Practical Physical-Layer Network Coding for Fading Channels  

Jung, Bang-Chul (Dept. of Information and Communication Engineering and the Institute of Marine Industry, Collage of Marine Science, Gyeongsang National University)
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Journal of information and communication convergence engineering / v.8, no.6, 2010 , pp. 655-659 More about this Journal
Abstract
In the conventional PNC scheme, the relay node requires simultaneous transmission of two source nodes with strict power control and carrier-phase matching between two received symbols. However, this pre-equalization process at source nodes is not practical in fading channels. In this letter, we propose a novel physical-layer network coding (PNC) scheme with log-likelihood ratio (LLR) conversion for fading channels, which utilizes not pre-equalizer at transmitters (source nodes) but joint detector at receiver (relay node). The proposed PNC requires only channel side information at the receiver (CSIR), which is far more practical assumption in fading channels. In addition, the proposed PNC scheme can use the conventional modulation scheme like M-QAM regardless of modulation order, while the conventional PNC scheme requires reconfiguration of modulation scheme at the source nodes for detection of the received signal at relay node. We consider the combination of the proposed PNC and channel coding, and find that the proposed PNC scheme is easily combined the linear channel codes such as turbo codes, LDPC, and convolutional codes.
Keywords
Two-way relaying technique; physicallayer network coding; channel coding; fading channels;
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