Analysis and experimental verification of RF self-interference cancelation for co-time co-frequency full-duplex LTE

Co-time Co-frequency Full-Duplex (CCFD) radio transmission will cause a strong self-interference in its receiver. To ensure the undistorted transmission in the Radio Frequency (RF) channel and effective sampling of the desired signal, the Self-Interference Cancellation (SIC) need to be applied to RF frontend. In this paper, the CCFD verification experiment is presented based on the Long Term Evolution (LTE) that adopts RF SIC with the coupled RF transmitted signal. Considering the direct path self-interference between transmit and receive antennas, the relationship among interference power, interference bandwidth, RF adjustment errors and SIC ability is analyzed. Consequently, the expression of SIC ability is derived. Analysis and experimental results show that the SIC abilities are 54 dB in theory and 51.2 dB in practice for a 20 MHz LTE signal with received power of -10 dBm.