We consider the design of coding schemes for the wireless two-way relaying
channel when there is no channel state information at the transmitter. In the
spirit of the compute and forward paradigm, we present a multilevel coding
scheme that permits computation (or, decoding) of a class of functions at the
relay. The function to be computed (or, decoded) is then chosen depending on
the channel realization. We define such a class of functions which can be
decoded at the relay using the proposed coding scheme and derive rates that are
universally achievable over a set of channel gains when this class of functions
is used at the relay. We develop our framework with general modulation formats
in mind, but numerical results are presented for the case where each node
transmits using the QPSK constellation. Numerical results with QPSK show that
the flexibility afforded by our proposed scheme results in substantially higher
rates than those achievable by always using a fixed function or by adapting the
function at the relay but coding over GF(4).Comment: This paper was submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
in July 2011. A shorter version also appeared in the proceedings of the
International Symposium on Information Theory in August 2011 without the
proof of the main theore