Two-Way Amplify-and-Forward MIMO Relay Networks with Antenna Selection

A novel transmit/receive (Tx/Rx) antenna selection strategy is proposed and analyzed for two-way multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) amplify-and-forward (AF) relay networks. This strategy involves choosing the best transmit and receive antennas at the two sources and the relay based on the minimization of the overall outage probability. The performance of the proposed selection strategy is quantified by deriving the overall outage probability and its high SNR approximation. Specifically, the diversity order is derived to obtain valuable insights into practical system designing. In particular, our results are extended to cater the multiple relay scenario, and thereby, a joint relay and Tx/Rx antenna selection strategy is proposed and analyzed. To this end, the overall outage probability, its high SNR approximation and diversity order are derived. Our numerical results show that the proposed selection strategies achieve the full diversity order. All the analyses are validated through Monte-Carlo simulations.