Full duplex C‐RAN: Effects of power control.

This paper investigates the performance of cloud radio access networks (C‐RAN) in different power control scenarios in full‐duplex (FD) cellular networks. Results reveal that FD C‐RAN performance drastically reduces with uplink (UL) power control. We proposed a power control scheme in downlink (DL), which uplifts the UL user rate, but at the cost of DL rate. With UL and DL power control, the average rate saturates after a threshold number of base stations (BS) coordination and has little impact on coordinating additional BSs. Besides, the state‐of‐the‐art self‐interference suppression (SI) of 130 dB provides almost equal performance compared to the perfect SI cancelation. Hence co‐channel interference management becomes the bottleneck for FD system design. We used the Matern cluster process (MCP) to model the network. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]