Distributed precoding for two-way relaying with OFDM

This paper is concerned with the design of distributed precoding in the multiple access (MA) phase for two-way relaying communication (TWRC) systems using OFDM. The error probability analysis is conducted to establish the diversity and coding gains for three error types in the MA phase. Then the design criteria of distributed precoding to achieve the maximum diversity and coding gains are given. The frequency-grouped linear constellation precoding (F-GLCP) is first investigated and shown not to be able to achieve the maximum diversity gain under type-3 errors. Then a novel frequency-time GLCP (FT-GLCP) which performs precoding in both frequency and time domains is proposed. It is proved that the proposed FT-GLCP is able to achieve the maximum diversity gain under type-3 errors, while maintaining the maximum diversity and coding gains under type-1 and type-2 errors. To corroborate the theoretical analysis, simulation results are provided to show the advantage of the proposed FT-GLCP over other schemes in both Rayleigh and Rician fading channels.