Full-duplex radio for uplink/downlink wireless access with spatially random nodes

Mohammadali Mohammadi, Himal A. Suraweera, Yun Cao, Ioannis Krikidis, Chintha Tellambura

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Abstract

A full-duplex (FD) multiple antenna access point (AP) communicating with single antenna half-duplex (HD) spatially random users to support simultaneous uplink (UL)/downlink (DL) transmissions is investigated. Since FD nodes are inherently constrained by the loopback interference (LI), we study precoding schemes for the AP based on maximum ratio combining (MRC)/maximal ratio transmission (MRT), zero-forcing, and the optimal scheme for UL and DL sum rate maximization using tools from stochastic geometry. In order to shed insights into the systems performance, simple expressions for single antenna/perfect LI cancellation/negligible internode interference cases are also presented. We show that FD precoding at AP improves the UL/DL sum rate and hence a doubling of the performance of the HD mode is achievable. In particular, our results show that these impressive performance gains remain substantially intact even if the LI cancellation is imperfect. Furthermore, relative performance gap between FD and HD modes increases as the number of transmit/receive antennas becomes large, while with the MRC/MRT scheme, increasing the receive antenna number at FD AP, is more beneficial in terms of sum rate than increasing the transmit antenna number.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)5250-5266
JournalIEEE Transactions on Communications
Volume63
Issue number12
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Dec 2015
Externally publishedYes

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