Abstract-In cellular networks, the three-node full-duplex transmission mode has the potential to increase spectral efficiency without requiring full-duplex capability of users. Consequently, three-node full-duplex in cellular networks must deal with selfinterference and user-to-user interference, which can be managed by power control and user-frequency assignment techniques. This paper investigates the problem of maximizing the sum spectral efficiency by jointly determining the transmit powers in a distributed fashion, and assigning users to frequency channels. The problem is formulated as a mixed-integer nonlinear problem, which is shown to be non-deterministic polynomial-time hard. We investigate a close-to-optimal solution approach by dividing the joint problem into a power control problem and an assignment problem. The power control problem is solved by FastLipschitz optimization, while a greedy solution with guaranteed performance is developed for the assignment problem. Numerical results indicate that compared to the half-duplex mode, both spectral and energy efficiencies of the system are increased by the proposed algorithm. Moreover, results show that the power control and assignment solutions have important, but opposite roles in scenarios with low or high self-interference cancellation. When the self-interference cancellation is high, user-frequency assignment is more important than power control, while power control is essential at low self-interference cancellation.
I. INTRODUCTIONIn order to meet the need for explosive data volumes and data rates, wireless network operators seek to enhance the spectral efficiency in lower-frequency bands [1], and to exploit higher-frequency bands such as the millimiter waves. The research and standardization communities are currently studying physical layer technologies, including massive MIMO systems, spectrum sharing in mmWave networks, new waveforms, non-orthogonal multiple access technologies, and full-duplex communications [2], [3].In-band full-duplex (FD) transceivers are expected to improve the attainable spectral efficiency of traditional wireless networks operating with half-duplex (HD) transceivers by a factor of two [3]. Due to recent advancements in mitigating the inherent self-interference (SI) by means of passive suppression, analog and/or digital cancellation, in-band FD technology is quickly approaching the phase of commercial deployments in low-power wireless networks [4].