Multiuser Overhearing for Cooperative Two-Way Multiantenna Relays

In this paper, an overhearing protocol is proposed for two-way cooperative multiantenna relaying systems, where the relays equipped with multiple antennas collaborate to relay signals between the base station (BS) and two user equipment units (UEs). In the proposed overhearing protocol, the UE in the uplink transmission phase transmits only in the first time slot, i.e., it remains silent in the second time slot, whereas the previous overhearing protocol assumes that the UE transmits also in the second time slot. Therefore, the proposed overhearing protocol is more power efficient. The precoding matrix at each cooperative relay is optimized in the sense of minimizing the weighted mean squared error (WMSE). Simulation results show that the proposed scheme shows not only lower mean squared error but also higher achievable sum rate than existing cooperative relaying schemes.