Abstract

This work develops LONESTAR, a novel enabler of full-duplex millimeter wave (mmWave) communication systems through the design of analog beamforming codebooks. LONESTAR codebooks deliver high beamforming gain and broad coverage while simultaneously reducing the self-interference coupled by transmit and receive beams at a full-duplex mmWave transceiver. Our design framework accomplishes this by tolerating some variability in transmit and receive beamforming gain to strategically shape beams that reject self-interference spatially while accounting for digitally-controlled analog beamforming networks and self-interference channel estimation error. By leveraging the coherence time of the self-interference channel, a mmWave system can use the same LONESTAR design over many time slots to serve several downlink-uplink user pairs in a full-duplex fashion without the need for additional self-interference cancellation. Compared to those using conventional codebooks, full-duplex mmWave systems employing LONESTAR codebooks can mitigate higher levels of self-interference, tolerate more cross-link interference, and demand lower SNRs in order to outperform half-duplex operation—all while supporting beam alignment. This makes LONESTAR a potential standalone solution for enabling simultaneous transmission and reception in mmWave systems, from which it derives its name.

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