Capacity Limits of Full-Duplex Cellular Network [article]

Kaiming Shen and Reza K. Farsani and Wei Yu
2020 arXiv   pre-print
This paper aims to characterize the capacity limits of a wireless cellular network with a full-duplex (FD) base-station (BS) and half-duplex user terminals, in which three independent messages are communicated: the uplink message m_1 from the uplink user to the BS, the downlink message m_2 from the BS to the downlink user, and the device-to-device (D2D) message m_3 from the uplink user to the downlink user. From an information theoretical perspective, the overall network can be viewed as a
more » ... alization of the FD relay broadcast channel with a side message transmitted from the relay to the destination. We begin with a simpler case that involves the uplink and downlink transmissions of (m_1,m_2) only, and propose an achievable rate region based on a novel strategy that uses the BS as a FD relay to facilitate the interference cancellation at the downlink user. We also prove a new converse, which is strictly tighter than the cut-set bound, and characterize the capacity region of the scalar Gaussian FD network without a D2D message to within a constant gap. This paper further studies a general setup wherein (m_1,m_2,m_3) are communicated simultaneously. To account for the D2D message, we incorporate Marton's broadcast coding into the previous scheme to obtain a larger achievable rate region than the existing ones in the literature. We also improve the cut-set bound by means of genie and show that by using one of the two simple rate-splitting schemes, the capacity region of the scalar Gaussian FD network with a D2D message can already be reached to within a constant gap. Finally, a generalization to the vector Gaussian channel case is discussed. Simulation results demonstrate the advantage of using the BS as relay in enhancing the throughput of the FD cellular network.
arXiv:1905.00944v2 fatcat:hvxck4bahbhw3jw2nda6xoakc4