Joint Interference Cancellation and Resource Allocation for Full-Duplex Cloud Radio Access Networks

Abstract

In this paper, we study joint interference cancellation and resource allocation for full-duplex (FD) cloud radio access networks (C-RANs) with antenna correlation. The target is to maximize the capacity of downlink (DL) user equipments (UEs) with guaranteed quality of service (QoS) of uplink (UL) UEs under the constraints of DL and UL transmit power. Intractability of the considered problem involves non-convexity and coupling between postcoding and remote radio head (RRH) selection. To deal with the high coupling between system variables, an estimation-free self-interference (SI) cancellation (EFSC) scheme with merit of significantly reducing signaling overhead for channel estimation is proposed. The reduced signaling overhead is also derived in closed-form expression. Furthermore, we propose a generalized Bender's decomposition-based resource allocation (GRA) algorithm, which separates the continuous and discrete variables to solve the optimization problem. With the design of a flexible utility function, the tradeoff between DL capacity and co-channel interference (CCI) can be achieved. Moreover, we identify the scenario in which antenna correlation will be beneficial for both the UL and DL communications in FD C-RAN with the implementation of EFSC scheme. The effectiveness of the proposed methods and theorems are verified via simulation results.