In this paper, a contiguous carrier aggregation scheme for the downlink transmissions in an inband full-duplex cellular network is analyzed. In particular, we consider a scenario where the base station transmits over a wider bandwidth than the mobiles, while both parties are still using the same center frequency. As a result, the mobiles must cancel their own self-interference over a wider bandwidth, when compared to a situation where the uplink and downlink frequency bands are symmetric. Furthermore, due to the inherent RF impairments in the mobile devices, nonlinear modeling of the self-interference is required in the digital domain to fully cancel it over the whole reception bandwidth. The feasibility of the proposed scheme is demonstrated with real-life RF measurements, using two different bandwidths. In both of these cases, it is shown that the SI can be attenuated below the receiver noise floor over the whole reception bandwidth.
['Dani Korpi', 'Lauri Anttila', 'Mikko Valkama']
Asymmetric full-duplex with contiguous downlink carrier aggregation