Effect of interference of full-duplex transmissions in underlay device-to-device communication

Abstract

In this paper we investigate the effect of interference caused by in-band full-duplex radios in device-to-device communication (D2D). While using full-duplex radios in D2D, both users transmit, compared to half-duplex D2D in which one user transmits. This is going to cause more interference in underlay D2D communication since D2D link operates on the same radio resource blocks as cellular users. We consider uplink radio resource reuse of cellular users by D2D communication, and try to maximize the number of possible D2D links constrained to the interference on the cellular user. The number of D2D pairs that can be active in the full-duplex mode is smaller than in the half-duplex mode due to more interference from transmissions of both D2D nodes. We compare the total rate of half-duplex and full-duplex modes and evaluate the benefits of full-duplex radios.