Iterative Self-Interference Mitigation in Full-Duplex Wireless Communications

This paper considers a full-duplex wireless communication system in which detection of the desired signal is hindered not only by the self-interference (SI), but also phase noise, in-phase and quadrature-phase imbalance and power amplifier's nonlinearity distortion. An iterative algorithm is proposed in which the processes of SI cancellation and detection of the desired signal aid each other in each iteration. In each iteration, the SI cancellation process performs widely linear estimation of the SI channel and compensates for physical impairments to improve the detection performance of the desired signal. The detected desired signal is in turn removed from the received signal to improve SI channel estimation and SI cancellation in the next iteration. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm significantly outperforms existing algorithms in SI cancellation and detection of the desired signal.