Distributed Filter-And-Forward Beamforming for Two-Way Relaying Networks under Channel Uncertainties

In this paper, we consider robust distributed filter-and-forward beamforming design for two-way relaying networks over the frequency selective fading channels, in which two users exchange information with the aid of multiple single-antenna relay nodes. In contrast to the prior works in which the channel state information (CSI) is available, in our work CSI for all relevant links between the users and relay nodes is not perfectly known with stochastic channel errors. Under stochastic channel errors, a robust beamforming design aiming at maximizing the total system signal-to-interference-plus-noise-ratio (SINR) under individual relay power constraints is proposed. Simulation results show that the proposed robust beamformer reduces the sensitivity of the two-way relaying systems to channel estimation errors, and performs better than the algorithm using estimated channels only.