Impacts of Phase Noise on Digital Self-Interference Cancellation in Full-Duplex Communications

TLDR

In full‑duplex radios, phase noise causes random phase mismatch between the self‑interference and its cancellation signal, potentially degrading cancellation performance. The study explicitly analyzes the impact of transmitter and receiver phase noise on digital self‑interference cancellation in an OFDM‑based full‑duplex radio. Closed‑form expressions for the digital cancellation capability and its high‑INR limit are derived as functions of common phase error power, INR, SNR, channel estimation error, and delay, and these results are used to characterize the achievable rate region of a two‑way OFDM full‑duplex system with phase noise. The analysis shows that a maximum outer bound of the rate region exists for sufficiently large transmission power, and a minimum power is required to achieve a specified fraction of the cancellation limit while keeping the outer bound close to its maximum.

Abstract

In full-duplex (FD) radios, phase noise leads to random phase mismatch between the self-interference (SI) and the reconstructed cancellation signal, resulting in possible performance degradation during SI cancellation. To explicitly analyze its impacts on the digital SI cancellation, an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)-modulated FD radio is considered with phase noises at both the transmitter and receiver. The closed-form expressions for both the digital cancellation capability and its limit for the large interference-to-noise ratio (INR) case are derived in terms of the power of the common phase error, INR, desired signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), channel estimation error and transmission delay. Based on the obtained digital cancellation capability, the achievable rate region of a two-way FD OFDM system with phase noise is characterized. Then, with a limited SI cancellation capability, the maximum outer bound of the rate region is proved to exist for sufficiently large transmission power. Furthermore, a minimum transmission power is obtained to achieve β-portion of the cancellation capability limit and to ensure that the outer bound of the rate region is close to its maximum.