Guest Editorial: Full Duplex Communications Theory, Standardization, and Practice

Mobile data traffic grew by more than 50 percent between the first quarters of 2019 and 2020 and is projected to grow by close to a factor of 5 to reach 164 exabytes per month by 2025. This insatiable demand for mobile broadband communication services, including video, social networking, web browsing, audio, software updates, and peer-to-peer file sharing, has been driven by both the rising number of smartphone subscriptions and the increasing average data volume per subscription [1].