Full-Duplex Cloud-RAN with Uplink/Downlink Remote Radio Head Association
Mohammadali Mohammadi, Himal A. Suraweera, Chintha Tellambura

TL;DR
This paper analyzes a full-duplex cloud radio access network with distributed multi-antenna RRHs, comparing association schemes and beamforming methods, demonstrating significant performance gains over half-duplex systems.
Contribution
It provides analytical expressions for average sum rate in a realistic full-duplex C-RAN with various association and beamforming schemes, highlighting the impact on system performance.
Findings
Full-duplex mode outperforms half-duplex in sum rate.
Beamforming and association schemes critically influence full-duplex gains.
Analytical expressions enable performance comparison based on system parameters.
Abstract
This paper considers a cloud radio access network (C-RAN) where spatially distributed remote radio heads (RRHs) communicate with a full-duplex user. In order to reflect a realistic scenario, the uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) RRHs are assumed to be equipped with multiple antennas and distributed according to a Poisson point process. We consider all participate and nearest RRH association schemes with distributed beamforming in the form of maximum ratio combining/maximal ratio transmission (MRC/MRT) and zero-forcing/MRT(ZF/MRT) processing. We derive analytical expressions useful to compare the average sum rate among association schemes as a function of the number of RRHs antennas and density of the UL and DL RRHs. Numerical results show that significant performance improvements can be achieved by using the full-duplex mode as compared to the half-duplex mode, while the choice of the…
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