Bound Analysis of Physical Layer Network Coding in Interference-Limited Two-Way Relaying System

In this paper, performance of three-time slot (3TS) physical layer network coding (PNC) is investigated in interference-limited two-way relaying system. Effective lower and upper bounds are derived for important performance metrics like outage probability and average bit error rate (BER) with different modulation modes. Asymptotic behavior is also proposed to intuitively exhibit the trend of performance in high signal-to-interference and noise ratio (SINR) regime. We differentiate practical applications with different relay power for the bounds. A particular scenario with positional grid structure of sources, relay and co-channel interferers is established for numerical analysis, and the effects of some critical parameters, such as relay´s location, forwarding capability and power allocation factor, are compared and discussed. The theoretic solutions are finally verified by simulation results.