Medium Access Control Protocols for Full-Duplex Communications in WLAN Systems: Approaches and Challenges 


Vol. 40,  No. 7, pp. 1276-1285, Jul.  2015


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  Abstract

Full-duplex communications have emerged as a key technology for next-generation wireless local area networks (WLANs). Although the key enabling technology for full-duplex communications is the self-interference cancellation (SIC) technique in the physical layer, the employment of full-duplex communications has huge potentials to substantially increase the throughput at the medium access control (MAC) layer. At the same time, full-duplex communications pose non-trivial challenges to the MAC protocol design. In this article, we first identify salient problems in supporting full-duplex communications in WLAN MAC protocols. After that, we survey the state-of-the art to address those problems and analyze their pros and cons. Finally, we present open research challenges to improve the effectiveness of full-duplex communications in WLANs.

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[IEEE Style]

W. Kim, T. Song, T. Kim, S. Pack, "Medium Access Control Protocols for Full-Duplex Communications in WLAN Systems: Approaches and Challenges," The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences, vol. 40, no. 7, pp. 1276-1285, 2015. DOI: .

[ACM Style]

Wonjung Kim, Taewon Song, Taeyoon Kim, and Sangheon Pack. 2015. Medium Access Control Protocols for Full-Duplex Communications in WLAN Systems: Approaches and Challenges. The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences, 40, 7, (2015), 1276-1285. DOI: .

[KICS Style]

Wonjung Kim, Taewon Song, Taeyoon Kim, Sangheon Pack, "Medium Access Control Protocols for Full-Duplex Communications in WLAN Systems: Approaches and Challenges," The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences, vol. 40, no. 7, pp. 1276-1285, 7. 2015.