Outage performance of amplify-and-forward two-way relaying with asymmetric traffics

Abstract: This letter conducts the outage analysis for an amplify-and-forward (AF) based two-way relaying by jointly considering outage events at the two senders with asymmetric traffics. Unlike the current research activities, our goal is to explore the impact of traffic asymmetry on the system outage probability. We first derive the exact expressions of outage probability for the AF scenario over Rayleigh fading channels. To gain more insight, approximated expressions are developed at high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) region. After that we interestingly find that the asymmetry of system traffics has significant impact on the system outage probability and the outage probability in the system is determined only by the one-way channel or related simultaneously to the two-way links, depending on the level of asymmetry between the two senders’ information rates. Simulation experiments are done. The simulation results verify our propositions and validate the accuracy of our derived expressions. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]