Abstract
This work investigates the effects of full duplexity on delay and throughput in interference-limited multi-hop networks. It is assumed that channel state information is not available at transmitters and beamforming is employed as the transmission scheme. A closed-form expression is developed for hop success probability in networks of this type. The delay and throughput of multi-hop networks employing full duplex and half duplex beamforming are than compared. The delay and throughput are studied in two cases: when full duplexity is used for full duplex relay (FDR), and bi-directional beamforming (BBF). For FDR, employing full duplex beamforming is more beneficial if a low rate constraint is required or if interferers are rare. However, this benefit diminishes as the required data rate or the interferer density increases. For BBF, the use of full duplex beamforming is always more beneficial because it leads to a reduction in the required rate constraint. Specifically, this benefit becomes more significant as the required rate rises and interferers become rarer.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 6280259 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1554-1565 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue number | 8 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2012 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Manuscript received 4 August 2011; revised 16 February 2012. This research was supported in part by a National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MEST) (No. 2010-0018938). This work was also supported in part by the KCC (Korea Communications Commission), Korea, under the R & D program supervised by the KCA (Korea Communications Agency) (KCA-2011-(11913-04004)).
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Computer Networks and Communications
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering