Full Duplex Spatial Modulation System Performance Depending on Self-interference Cancellation Accuracy

Spatial modulation (SM) as a new Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) technique is based on transmitting part of the information by activating different emitting antennas. SM increases spectral efficiency and uses only one radio frequency chain. For full-duplex (FD) communication systems, self-interference (SI) is always a central problem. Therefore, combining FD and SM can drastically reduce the difficulty of Self-interference Cancellation (SIC) because of the single SI chain. A Full Duplex Spatial Modulation (FDSM) system is proposed and an active analog SIC is highlighted in this paper. Moreover, the impact of SIC accuracy on the system performance is studied. The results demonstrate that the accuracy requirement will increase as the INR (Self-interference-to-noise Ratio) increases. The FDSM system is less sensitive than the FD system in presence of high estimated error value. Furthermore, an SI detector is presented to resolve the influence of the number of detect symbols.