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An Analog Baseband Approach for Designing Full-Duplex Radios
Recent wireless testbed implementations have proven that full-duplex
communication is in fact possible and can outperform half-duplex systems. Many
of these implementations modify existing half-duplex systems to operate in
full-duplex. To realize the full potential of full-duplex, radios need to be
designed with self-interference in mind. In our work, we use an experimental
setup with a patch antenna prototype to characterize the self-interference
channel between two radios. In doing so, we form an analytical model to design
analog baseband cancellation techniques. We show that our cancellation scheme
can provide up to 10 dB improved signal strength, 2.5 bps/Hz increase in rate,
and a 10,000 improvement in BER as compared to the RF only cancellation
provided by the patch antenna.Comment: 5 pages, 8 figures, to appear in 2013 Asilomar Conference proceeding
Wideband Self-Adaptive RF Cancellation Circuit for Full-Duplex Radio: Operating Principle and Measurements
This paper presents a novel RF circuit architecture for self-interference
cancellation in inband full-duplex radio transceivers. The developed canceller
is able to provide wideband cancellation with waveform bandwidths in the order
of 100 MHz or beyond and contains also self-adaptive or self-healing features
enabling automatic tracking of time-varying self-interference channel
characteristics. In addition to architecture and operating principle
descriptions, we also provide actual RF measurements at 2.4 GHz ISM band
demonstrating the achievable cancellation levels with different bandwidths and
when operating in different antenna configurations and under low-cost highly
nonlinear power amplifier. In a very challenging example with a 100 MHz
waveform bandwidth, around 41 dB total cancellation is obtained while the
corresponding cancellation figure is close to 60 dB with the more conventional
20 MHz carrier bandwidth. Also, efficient tracking in time-varying reflection
scenarios is demonstrated.Comment: 7 pages, to be presented in 2015 IEEE 81st Vehicular Technology
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A VHDL-AMS Simulation Environment for an UWB Impulse Radio Transceiver
Ultra-Wide-Band (UWB) communication based on the impulse radio paradigm is becoming increasingly popular. According to the IEEE 802.15 WPAN Low Rate Alternative PHY Task Group 4a, UWB will play a major role in localization applications, due to the high time resolution of UWB signals which allow accurate indirect measurements of distance between transceivers. Key for the successful implementation of UWB transceivers is the level of integration that will be reached, for which a simulation environment that helps take appropriate design decisions is crucial. Owing to this motivation, in this paper we propose a multiresolution UWB simulation environment based on the VHDL-AMS hardware description language, along with a proper methodology which helps tackle the complexity of designing a mixed-signal UWB System-on-Chip. We applied the methodology and used the simulation environment for the specification and design of an UWB transceiver based on the energy detection principle. As a by-product, simulation results show the effectiveness of UWB in the so-called ranging application, that is the accurate evaluation of the distance between a couple of transceivers using the two-way-ranging metho
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