Scheduling and power adaptation for wireless local area networks with full‐duplex capability

Abstract

AbstractIn‐band full‐duplex communication has a great potential to enhance wireless local area networks, where full‐duplex access points can support simultaneous uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) flows over the same frequency channel. This work presents a scheduling and power adaptation technique to manage interference in wireless local area networks with full‐duplex capability. The proposed system focuses primarily on scheduling UL and DL clients that can be efficiently served simultaneously. First, we develop a DL client scheduling algorithm that allows for sum throughput gains with the existence of a UL client. Second, we manage the interference resulting from the UL flow via adjusting the UL transmit power to maximize rate for DL clients that are served in a multiuser multiple‐input–multiple‐output fashion.