Full-Duplex Communications for Future Wireless Networks

In a full-duplex radio, transmitting and receiving happen at the same time on the same frequency band. That promise comes with a central engineering problem: the transmitter’s own signal can overwhelm its receiver. This edited volume follows the work of suppressing that self-interference, then examines what becomes possible when it is brought under control.

Across 11 chapters, researchers and engineers consider the subject from the transceiver level through to network applications. The result is a technically focused look at both the mechanisms behind full-duplex systems and the challenges that remain in putting them to work.

From antennas to digital cancellation

The first part concentrates on self-interference cancellation. It covers antenna and radio-frequency approaches, analog cancellation, digital methods for lower-cost radio devices, and filter design. Read together, these chapters trace cancellation across the signal chain rather than treating it as a single component or isolated technique.

That progression offers a useful framework for understanding why multiple forms of mitigation matter: residual interference can persist even after earlier stages have reduced it, so design choices at different points in the transceiver must work in concert.

Network questions and new applications

The second part moves from radio design to system-level concerns. Chapters address interference management in cellular and heterogeneous networks, as well as the combination of full-duplex operation with non-orthogonal multiple access and wireless-powered communications. Later contributions explore defense and security applications, secure wireless communication, and integrated radio systems, including implementation and experimentation.

This breadth helps connect the physical challenge of self-interference to its wider consequences for network design, resource management, and application-specific performance.

A technical collection for wireless specialists

Edited by Hirley Alves, Taneli Riihonen, and Himal A. Suraweera, the book brings together contributions on theoretical and practical aspects of full-duplex communications. It will be most relevant to researchers, practicing engineers, and advanced students with an interest in wireless communications, radio-frequency systems, signal processing, and network design.

For readers who want to understand how full-duplex technology is engineered—and where it may be applied—this collection offers a focused route from cancellation fundamentals to emerging systems and use cases.