Calls for Papers on Special Issues
| Paper Topic | Manuscript Submission Deadline | Publication Date |
|---|---|---|
| IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation – Special Issue on Antennas and Propagation Aspects of In-Band Full Duplex Applications | October 31, 2020 | August 2021 |
| IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (OJ-COMS) – Special Issue on Full-Duplex Transceivers for Future Networks: Theory and Techniques | February 28, 2021 | Second Quarter 2021 |
| Sensors – Special Issue on Full-Duplex Wireless Communications | November 30, 2021 | Second Quarter 2022 |
IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation – Special Issue on Antennas and Propagation Aspects of In-Band Full Duplex Applications
The frequency spectrum is congested due to usage on the part of many communication systems and a few radar and military systems. Most communication systems are half-duplex and they use separate bands or time slots to transmit and receive signals. This leads to underutilization of available resources and inefficient flow of information between wireless systems. Physical separation between the transmitter and receiver, with electromagnetic shielding or attenuation material placed in-between, can lead to their simultaneous operation in time and frequency; however, additional required space is often not available.
On the other hand, in-band full-duplex systems that transmit and receive simultaneously in the same frequency band overcome some of these issues. These systems, also known as simultaneous transmit and receive (STAR) systems, have potential to increase spectral efficiency by either doubling the number of users or by doubling the communication channel capacity for each user in the same frequency interval allocated for half-duplex communications. However, the implementation of in-band full-duplex systems is challenged by self-interference between the strong transmitted and the weak received signal at each transceiver device. The higher transmitted power and narrower communication channel the greater are the isolation requirements, in some cases more than 150 dB. Moreover, wideband self-interference cancellation is more challenging than narrowband designs, leaving significant rooms for research before modern wideband radio communications can take full advantage of in-band full-duplex radios.
The prevailing thought is that the solution to the self-interference challenge is the combination among several approaches including: (i) antenna design; (ii) analog cancellation, for example through RF frontend design as its wider dynamic range and sensitivity is of crucial importance ; (iii) digital cancellation; In the context of STAR systems with maximum utilization of resources, applying one of these approaches is not sufficient to achieve the level of self-interference cancellation that leads to a workable system. Moreover, the antenna subsystem design with co-channel self-interference reduction is required to ensure the low noise amplifiers and other actives in the chain do not overload. In this special issue, we consider novel contributions to self-interference cancellation that are based on antenna subsystem design and allow for the first level of cancellation in in-band full-duplex systems. We also gather new experimental evidences and models that explain them, based on extensive field tests of antenna systems along with physical and mathematical modeling of self-interference channels.
The purpose of this special issue is to draw attention to the latest progress in the understanding, development, and in-field deployment of antenna systems for in-band full-duplex applications. Contributions are sought for, but not limited to the following:
- Both single antenna configurations and multi-antenna systems across frequency spectrum of interest for current and future narrow-and wide-bandwidth RF systems.
- Advancements in novel techniques to integrate antennas and non-reciprocal devices or beamformers, use of novel materials and symmetries for improved self-interference cancellation.
- New configurations and techniques for in-band full-duplex phased arrays and switched beam antennas.
- Novel techniques for improved self-interference cancellation relying on polarization, space or beam multiplexing with major advancement in theory, experimental tests or demonstration in practical application scenarios.
- Measurements of in-band full-duplex antenna subsystems, tolerance analysis, multi-physics analysis and co-design, platform effects inclusive of design for immunity to the host structure, use of STAR for other purposes than communications, MIMO in-band full-duplex antennas.
Guest Co-Editors:
Danilo Erricolo
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA , Prof.Danilo.Erricolo@ieee.org;
Dejan Filipovic
University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA, dejan.filipovic@colorado.edu;
Haneda Katsuyuki
Aalto University, Finland, katsuyuki.haneda@aalto.fi;
Zhijun Zhang
Tsinghua University, China, zjzh@tsinghua.edu.cn.
Deadlines
Paper Submission: October 31, 2020;
Publication Date: August 2021.
IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (OJ-COMS) – Special Issue on Full-Duplex Transceivers for Future Networks: Theory and Techniques
IEEE OJ-COMS invites manuscript submissions in the area of Full-Duplex Communication Systems (both wired and wireless).
Conventional wireless communication systems operate in half-duplex mode, i.e., current radios cannot transmit and receive at the same time and on the same frequency. Full-duplex (FD) wireless operation was generally assumed to be impossible due to the great difference in transmit and receive signal power levels. However, recent advances in antenna, hardware, and signal processing techniques have shown that FD operation is practically feasible. Thanks to novel combinations of antenna, analog, and digital cancellation techniques, self-interference (SI) suppression of 80-110 dB can be made possible. The feasibility in building a practical full-duplex radio using off-the-self hardware and software radios therefore alleviates many problems in wireless network design. While the vivid FD research continues soaring at its flat peak of popularity, the opportunity for innovation and research in FD radio remains tremendous.
The FD capability is as important also in wired communications when aiming at realizing cables’ two-way capacity to the maximum. In fact, historically, FD capability has already been adopted in digital subscriber line (DSL) systems/standards in the form of echo cancellation decades before the research on wireless FD systems started. Thus, there is no question about the overall feasibility of FD wired networking, but interesting new research problems and innovation opportunities emerge from developing FD transceiver hardware, signal processing and networking concepts to outperform their half-duplex counterparts optimally in terms of different objectives and under varying design constraints. Recently, echo cancellation and FD operation were introduced into data over cable service interface specification (DOCSIS). This enables new architectures in cable network systems such as distributed access architecture (DAA) along with new access schemes like full duplex, dynamic spectrum split between upstream and downstream, and guard band elimination. FD communication in DOCSIS and DSL wired systems provides symmetric data rate and low latency to enable heterogeneous communication architecture that combines wired backhaul network with wireless access.
This Special Issue solicits papers that provide novel contributions to the theory and practice of echo/self-interference cancellation and FD operation, targeting a broad range of physical and MAC layer issues as well as important applications of FD operation in future wireless and wired network designs. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Advanced full-duplex antenna and antenna array designs
- Advanced full-duplex transceiver designs (both wired and wireless)
- Experimental evaluation of FD transceivers and networks (both wired and wireless)
- Advanced self-interference/echo cancellation techniques
- Modelling of self-interference/echo and channel measurements in wireless and wired systems
- Massive MIMO and mmWave full-duplex transceiver design
- Performance analysis of FD transceivers, systems, and networks (both wired and wireless)
- Interference cancellation in full-duplex multi-user systems
- Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) in full-duplex systems
- Full-duplex and self-interference cancellation techniques based on deep learning/machine learning applications
- Physical layer security and full-duplex techniques
- Full-duplex relaying and cooperative communications
- UAV communications with FD radios
- Full-duplex techniques with wireless power and energy harvesting
- Full-duplex device-to-device and M2M communications
- Full-duplex small cell deployments and heterogeneous networks
- Ultra-reliable low-latency communications and MAC and routing protocols with FD radios
- Cross-layer design, virtualization and wireless caching with full-duplex operation
- Echo cancellation in cable systems and hybrid fiber-coaxial architectures
Submission Guidelines
Submit manuscript to Manuscript Central. For information regarding IEEE OJ-COMS including its publication policy and fees, please visit the website.
The timetable is as follows:
- Manuscript Submission Deadline: February 28 2021
- Publication Date: Second Quarter 2021
Lead Guest Editor
Nghi Tran, University of Akron, USA
Guest Editors
Himal A. Suraweera, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
Taneli Riihonen, Tampere University, Finland
Negar Reiskarimian, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Hardik Jain, GenXComm Inc., USA
Robert Schober, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
For inquiries regarding this Special Issue, please contact nghi.tran@uakron.edu.
Sensors – Special Issue on Full-Duplex Wireless Communications
To meet the rising demand for high-speed data services, wireless networks must exploit the available frequency spectrum more efficiently. One key limit to spectrum utilization efficiency involves the current practice of half-duplex communication, in which a node either transmits or receives a signal in a single-channel usage. This separation prevents self-interference, which has frequently been seen as an insurmountable technical problem. Promoted by the popularity of small-cell wireless systems, recent works have provided experimental evidence and methodologies for full-duplex communication, in which a node transmits and receives signals at the same time and on the same frequency band. Full-duplex communications have the potential to improve the attainable spectral efficiency and throughput and reduce latency.
This Special Issue will provide a synthesized source of recent research results and to serve as a springboard for future work in Full-Duplex Wireless Communications. The possible topics include, but are not limited to the following:
- Advanced self-interference cancellation techniques for full-duplex
- Advanced antenna and transceiver designs for full-duplex
- Full-duplex reconfigurable intelligent (meta)surfaces
- Full-duplex techniques with wireless power and energy harvesting
- Full-duplex for simultaneous communication and sensing
- Full-duplex millimeter-wave/THz systems
- Multiple input multiple output full-duplex transceiver design
- Performance analysis of full-duplex transceivers, systems, and networks
- Physical layer security and full-duplex techniques
- Resource allocation and user scheduling in full-duplex networks
- Stochastic geometry for full-duplex systems
- Experimental evaluation of full-duplex transceivers and networks
Submission Guidelines
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript.
The timetable is as follows:
- Manuscript Submission Deadline: November 30, 2021
- Publication Date: Second Quarter 2022
Guest Editors:
Besma Smida, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA, smida@uic.edu;
George C. Alexandropoulos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece, alexandg@di.uoa.gr