@inproceedings{discovery10055234,
         address = {Red Hook (NY), USA},
            note = {This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.},
       booktitle = {The Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE 87th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring)},
           month = {July},
         journal = {IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference},
       publisher = {IEEE},
            year = {2018},
           title = {Full-Duplex Enabled Cloud Radio Access Network},
        keywords = {Interference cancellation, Cooperative communication, Signal to noise ratio, Radio access networks, Fading channels, Frequency modulation},
             url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/VTCSpring.2018.8417605},
          author = {Shojaeifard, A and Wong, KK and Yu, W and Zheng, G and Tang, J},
        abstract = {Full-duplex (FD) has emerged as a disruptive solution for improving the achievable spectral efficiency (SE), thanks to the recent major breakthroughs in self-interference (SI) mitigation. The FD versus half-duplex (HD) SE gain, in the context of cellular networks, is however largely limited by the mutual interference (MI) between the downlink (DL) and uplink (UL). A potential remedy for tackling the MI bottleneck is through cooperative communications. This paper provides a stochastic analysis of FD enabled cloud radio access network (CRAN) with finite user- centric cooperative clusters. Contrary to the most existing theoretical studies of C-RAN, we explicitly take into consideration non-isotropic fading channel conditions, and finite-capacity fronthaul links. Accordingly, we develop analytical expressions for the FD C-RAN DL and UL SEs. The results indicate that significant FD versus HD C-RAN SE gains can be achieved, particularly in the presence of sufficient- capacity fronthaul links and advanced interference cancellation capabilities.}
}