APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FULL-DUPLEX COMMUNICATION OVER A SHARED TRANSMISSION MEDIUM

The present invention relates to a method for assigning communication resources to a plurality of communication devices (CM1 to CM4) for communication over a shared transmission medium. in accordance with a first aspect of the invention, the method comprises assigning first frequency carriers in a first communication frequency range (FLOW) for downstream communication and second frequency carriers in a second communication frequency range (FHIGH) disjoint from the first frequency range for upstream communication to a first part (CM1; CM2) of the plurality of communication devices, and assigning the second frequency carriers for downstream communication and the first frequency carriers for upstream communication to a second part (CM3; CM4) of the plurality of communication devices. The method further comprises, if a first communication device (CM1) and a second communication device (CM2) out of the plurality of communication devices have been characterized as highly-interfering communication devices, assigning the first and second communication devices to the same part of communication devices. The present invention further relates to a communication controller (12) for assigning communication resources to a plurality of communication devices as per such a method, and to an access node (11) comprising such a communication controller.