Symbol error rate of two-way decode-and-forward relaying with co-channel interference

In this paper, we analyze the performance of two-way relaying (TWR) protocol in Rayleigh fading channels, where the terminals and relay are interfered by a finite number of co-channel interferers. The relay is assumed to operate in the decode-and-forward mode. The average symbol error rate (SER) performance for binary phase shift keying (BPSK) is analyzed. To make the analysis mathematically tractable, two approximations are adopted to deal with the problem of correlations between the received SINRs of the relay and terminal and a tight approximate expression of the average SER is derived in closed-form. Moreover, it can be shown that the result can be simply applied in straightforward network coding protocol with co-channel interference. Based on the analytic results, we study the impacts of system parameters, such as interference power, number of interferers and relay placement, on the average SER performance. Finally, the correctness of our analytic results is validated through Monte Carlo simulations.