Advanced Self-interference Cancellation and Multiantenna Techniques for Full-Duplex Radios

Abstract

In an in-band full-duplex system, radios transmit and receive simultaneously in the same frequency band at the same time, providing a radical improvement in spectral efficiency over a half-duplex system. However, in order to design such a system, it is necessary to mitigate the self-interference due to simultaneous transmission and reception, which seriously limits the maximum transmit power of the full-duplex device. Especially, large differences in power levels in the receiver front-end sets stringent requirements for the linearity of the transceiver electronics. We present an advanced architecture for a compact full-duplex multiantenna transceiver combining antenna design with analog and digital cancellation, including both linear and nonlinear signal processing.