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Special issue

Full-Duplex Radio: Theory, Design, and Applications

Current wireless architectures and algorithms have been developed under the constraint of half-duplex operation, where a node can either transmit or receive on a single channel, but not at the same time. Although experimentation with full-duplex wireless networks has been considered for some time, it is only recently that a number of encouraging full-duplex designs have been proposed, which can overcome the critical self-interference problem. Therefore, full-duplex radio implementations with off-the-shelf electronic/radio-frequency components and novel combinations of antenna, analog-domain, and digital-domain self-interference cancellation methods are now thought to be possible. The feasibility of full-duplex capable transceivers will completely overhaul the design of future wireless networks and introduce many exciting opportunities for innovative physical and upper layer research. This special issue solicits contributions that address the potential of full-duplex radios to improve wireless networks and target a wide range of important physical and MAC layer issues such as advanced theory, self-interference cancellation schemes, performance analysis and optimization, energy efficient design, MAC protocol design, and applications in 5G and beyond.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Advanced full-duplex theory
  • Performance analysis and optimization of full-duplex networks (SISO, MIMO, Relay, Multi-User etc.)
  • Self-interference suppression techniques
  • Design of full-duplex networks (modulation, channel codes etc.)
  • Full-duplex resource management
  • Energy-efficient green full-duplex design
  • Interference management in full-duplex networks
  • Full-duplex and massive MIMO
  • Mobile full-duplex
  • Full-duplex cognitive radio
  • Applications of full-duplex to energy harvesting
  • Full-duplex and physical-layer security
  • Full-duplex MAC protocol design and analysis
  • Novel full-duplex network architectures such as C-RAN, M2M, Internet-of-Things
  • Experimental evaluation of full-duplex hardware
  • Full-duplex and localization.


Submission instructions

Before submitting your manuscript, please ensure you have carefully read the Instructions for Authors for EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking. The complete manuscript should be submitted through the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking submission system. To ensure that you submit to the correct thematic series please select the appropriate section in the drop-down menu upon submission. In addition, indicate within your cover letter that you wish your manuscript to be considered as part of the Thematic Series on Full- Duplex Radio: Theory, Design, and Applications. All submissions will undergo rigorous peer review and accepted articles will be published within the journal as a collection.


Deadline for submissions

15 August, 2016


Lead guest editor

Nghi H. Tran, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Akron, USA
nghi.tran@uakron.edu


Guest editors

Himal A. Suraweera, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
himal@ee.pdn.ac.lk

Melissa Duarte, Huawei, France
melissa.duarte@huawei.com

Zhu Han, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston, USA
zhan2@uh.edu

Robert Schober, Department of Electrical, Electronics, and Communication Engineering, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
robert.schober@fau.de

Tho Le-Ngoc, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, Canada
tho.le-ngoc@mcgill.ca


Submissions will also benefit from the usual advantages of open access publication:

  • Rapid publication: Online submission, electronic peer review and production make the process of publishing your article simple and efficient
  • High visibility and international readership in your field: Open access publication ensures high visibility and maximum exposure for your work - anyone with online access can read your article
  • No space constraints: Publishing online means unlimited space for figures, extensive data and video footage
  • Authors retain copyright, licensing the article under a Creative Commons license: articles can be freely redistributed and reused as long as the article is correctly attributed

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