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Multi-tap Digital Canceller for Full-Duplex Applications
We identify phase noise as a bottleneck for the performance of digital
self-interference cancellers that utilize a single auxiliary
receiver---single-tap digital cancellers---and operate in multipath propagation
environments. Our analysis demonstrates that the degradation due to phase noise
is caused by a mismatch between the analog delay of the auxiliary receiver and
the different delays of the multipath components of the self-interference
signal. We propose a novel multi-tap digital self-interference canceller
architecture that is based on multiple auxiliary receivers and a customized
Normalized-Least-Mean-Squared (NLMS) filtering for self-interference
regeneration. Our simulation results demonstrate that our proposed architecture
is more robust to phase noise impairments and can in some cases achieve 10~dB
larger self-interference cancellation than the single-tap architecture.Comment: SPAWC 201
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
Beamforming in MISO Systems: Empirical Results and EVM-based Analysis
We present an analytical, simulation, and experimental-based study of
beamforming Multiple Input Single Output (MISO) systems. We analyze the
performance of beamforming MISO systems taking into account implementation
complexity and effects of imperfect channel estimate, delayed feedback, real
Radio Frequency (RF) hardware, and imperfect timing synchronization. Our
results show that efficient implementation of codebook-based beamforming MISO
systems with good performance is feasible in the presence of channel and
implementation-induced imperfections. As part of our study we develop a
framework for Average Error Vector Magnitude Squared (AEVMS)-based analysis of
beamforming MISO systems which facilitates comparison of analytical,
simulation, and experimental results on the same scale. In addition, AEVMS
allows fair comparison of experimental results obtained from different wireless
testbeds. We derive novel expressions for the AEVMS of beamforming MISO systems
and show how the AEVMS relates to important system characteristics like the
diversity gain, coding gain, and error floor.Comment: Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, November
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A MORTE E O CUIDADO: CONTRIBUTO DE ENFERMAGEM NO LIMITE DA VIDA
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Experiment-driven Characterization of Full-Duplex Wireless Systems
We present an experiment-based characterization of passive suppression and
active self-interference cancellation mechanisms in full-duplex wireless
communication systems. In particular, we consider passive suppression due to
antenna separation at the same node, and active cancellation in analog and/or
digital domain. First, we show that the average amount of cancellation
increases for active cancellation techniques as the received self-interference
power increases. Our characterization of the average cancellation as a function
of the self-interference power allows us to show that for a constant
signal-to-interference ratio at the receiver antenna (before any active
cancellation is applied), the rate of a full-duplex link increases as the
self-interference power increases. Second, we show that applying digital
cancellation after analog cancellation can sometimes increase the
self-interference, and thus digital cancellation is more effective when applied
selectively based on measured suppression values. Third, we complete our study
of the impact of self-interference cancellation mechanisms by characterizing
the probability distribution of the self-interference channel before and after
cancellation.Comment: Revised the submission to IEEE Transactions on Wireless
Communications, May 2012. Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless
Communications, July 201
Full-duplex Wireless: Design, Implementation and Characterization
One of the fundamental assumptions made in the design of wireless networks is that the wireless devices have to be half-duplex, i.e., they cannot simultaneously transmit and receive in the same frequency band. The key deterrent in implementing a full-duplex wireless device, which can simultaneously transmit and receive in the same frequency band, is the large power differential between the self-interference from a device's own transmissions and the signal of interest coming from a distant source. In this thesis, we revisit this basic assumption and propose a full-duplex radio design. The design suppresses the self-interference signal by employing a combination of passive suppression, and active analog and digital cancellation mechanisms. The active cancellations are designed for wideband, multiple subcarrier (OFDM), and multiple antenna (MIMO) wireless communications systems. We then implement our design as a 20 MHz MIMO OFDM system with a 2.4 GHz center frequency, suitable for Wi-Fi systems. We perform extensive over-the-air tests to characterize our implementation. Our main contributions are the following: (a) the average amount of active cancellation increases as the received self-interference power increases and as a result, the rate of a full-duplex link increases as the transmit power of communicating devices increases, (b) applying digital cancellation after analog cancellation can sometimes increase the self-interference and the effectiveness of digital cancellation in a full-duplex system will depend on the performance of the cancellation stages that precede it, (c) our full-duplex device design achieves an average of 85 dB of self-interference cancellation over a 20 MHz bandwidth at 2.4 GHz, which is the best cancellation performance reported to date, (d) our full-duplex device design achieves 30-84% higher ergodic rates than its half-duplex counterpart for received powers in the range of [-75, -60] dBm. As a result, our design is the first one to achieve Wi-Fi ranges; in comparison, no implementation to date has achieved Wi-Fi ranges. Consequently, we have conclusively demonstrated that Wi-Fi full-duplex is practically feasible and hence shown that one of the commonly made assumptions in wireless networks is not fundamental
Physical Layer Algorithm and Hardware Verification of MIMO Relays Using Cooperative Partial Detection
Cooperative communication with multi-antenna relays can significantly increase the reliability and speed. However, cooperative MIMO detection would impose considerable complexity overhead onto the relay if a full detect-and-forward (FDF) strategy is employed. In order to address this challenge, we propose a novel cooperative partial detection (CPD) strategy to partition the detection task between the relay and the destination. CPD utilizes the inherent structure of the tree-based sphere detectors, and modifies the tree traversal so that instead of visiting all the levels of the tree, only a subset of the levels, thus a subset of the transmitted streams, are visited. Based on this methodology, the destination combines the source signal and the partial relay signal to perform the detection step. We show, in both simulation and hardware
verification on the WARP platform, that using the CPD approach, the relay can avoid the considerable overhead of MIMO detection while helping the source-destination link to improve its performance.XilinxAzimuth SystemsNational Science Foundatio
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