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A Signal-Space Analysis of Spatial Self-Interference Isolation for Full-Duplex Wireless
The challenge to in-band full-duplex wireless communication is managing
self-interference. Many designs have employed spatial isolation mechanisms,
such as shielding or multi-antenna beamforming, to isolate the
self-interference wave from the receiver. Such spatial isolation methods are
effective, but by confining the transmit and receive signals to a subset of the
available space, the full spatial resources of the channel be under-utilized,
expending a cost that may nullify the net benefit of operating in full-duplex
mode. In this paper we leverage an antenna-theory-based channel model to
analyze the spatial degrees of freedom available to a full-duplex capable base
station, and observe that whether or not spatial isolation out-performs
time-division (i.e. half-duplex) depends heavily on the geometric distribution
of scatterers. Unless the angular spread of the objects that scatter to the
intended users is overlapped by the spread of objects that backscatter to the
base station, then spatial isolation outperforms time division, otherwise time
division may be optimal.Comment: To Appear at 2014 International Symposium on Information Theor
Joint Design of Multi-Tap Analog Cancellation and Digital Beamforming for Reduced Complexity Full Duplex MIMO Systems
Incorporating full duplex operation in Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO)
systems provides the potential of boosting throughput performance. However, the
hardware complexity of the analog self-interference canceller scales with the
number of transmit and receive antennas, thus exploiting the benefits of analog
cancellation becomes impractical for full duplex MIMO transceivers. In this
paper, we present a novel architecture for the analog canceller comprising of
reduced number of taps (tap refers to a line of fixed delay and variable phase
shifter and attenuator) and simple multiplexers for efficient signal routing
among the transmit and receive radio frequency chains. In contrast to the
available analog cancellation architectures, the values for each tap and the
configuration of the multiplexers are jointly designed with the digital
beamforming filters according to certain performance objectives. Focusing on a
narrowband flat fading channel model as an example, we present a general
optimization framework for the joint design of analog cancellation and digital
beamforming. We also detail a particular optimization objective together with
its derived solution for the latter architectural components. Representative
computer simulation results demonstrate the superiority of the proposed low
complexity full duplex MIMO system over lately available ones.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures, IEEE ICC 201
Full-Duplex Wireless for 6G: Progress Brings New Opportunities and Challenges
The use of in-band full-duplex (FD) enables nodes to simultaneously transmit
and receive on the same frequency band, which challenges the traditional
assumption in wireless network design. The full-duplex capability enhances
spectral efficiency and decreases latency, which are two key drivers pushing
the performance expectations of next-generation mobile networks. In less than
ten years, in-band FD has advanced from being demonstrated in research labs to
being implemented in standards and products, presenting new opportunities to
utilize its foundational concepts. Some of the most significant opportunities
include using FD to enable wireless networks to sense the physical environment,
integrate sensing and communication applications, develop integrated access and
backhaul solutions, and work with smart signal propagation environments powered
by reconfigurable intelligent surfaces. However, these new opportunities also
come with new challenges for large-scale commercial deployment of FD
technology, such as managing self-interference, combating cross-link
interference in multi-cell networks, and coexistence of dynamic time division
duplex, subband FD and FD networks.Comment: 21 pages, 15 figures, accepted to an IEEE Journa
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