Book Description

"The demand for data-intensive services is on the rise. In order to meet the demands, communication systems must increase their spectral efficiency (i.e., bits/s/Hz/Area). The more resources (e.g., time, frequency) are shared, the more interference will be present, but the higher the potential spectral efficiency gains if the interference can be effectively managed. The focus of this thesis is on the design of scalar and vectored Dynamic Power Allocation (DPA) transmission techniques to manage interference in severely interference-limited environments with applications to both wireline and wireless Half-Duplex (HD) and Full-Duplex (FD) systems. In particular, this thesis focuses on the design of practical, low-complexity scalar DPA- and precoding-based sum-rate maximization algorithms.For HD multi-link systems, a low-complexity distributed scalar DPA algorithm is proposed, introducing the concept of a virtual network, to achieve a near-ideal balance between performance, complexity, and sensitivity to users entering/leaving the system. As well, a lower-bound on the expected sum-rate is developed to provide better insight into the actual spectral efficiency of the system than existing models, which can be a useful tool for system operators to predict achievable data-rates.For FD systems, a FD Precoding (FDP) transceiver structure is proposed which applies precoding to jointly control the forward channel precoding and the self-interference cancellation, applicable for both FD MIMO-OFDM (Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing) point-to-point and point-to-multi-point systems. The FDP structure allows for different algorithms and optimization objectives to be developed. Various separate and joint FDP algorithms are proposed and the results indicate that using the proposed FDP structure can provide between 1.6 to 1.8 times and between 1.2 to 1.3 times the spectral efficiency of optimized HD systems in a wide-range of practical FD MIMO point-to-point and point-to-multi-point scenarios, respectively." --