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Does Full-Duplex Double the Capacity of Wireless Networks? Xiufeng Xie and Xinyu Zhang University of Wisconsin-Madison Email: xiufeng, xyzhang@ Half-duplex network Abstract—Full-duplex has emerged as a new communication TX1 RX1 RX2 TX2 paradigm and is anticipated to double wireless capacity. Existing RX1 studies of full-duplex mainly focused on its PHY layer design, TX1 which enables bidirectional transmission between a single pair Full-duplex network of nodes. In this paper, we establish an analytical framework to TX1 RX1 RX2 TX2 quantify the network-level capacity gain of full-duplex over half- duplex. Our analysis reveals that inter-link interference and spatial (a) (b) reuse substantially reduces full-duplex gain, rendering it well Fig. 1. Spatial reuse and asynchronous contention offsets full-duplex gain. below 2 in common cases. More remarkably, the asymptotic gain Dotted circles denote interference range. Protocol model [5] is assumed. approaches 1 when interference range approaches transmission range. Through a comparison between optimal half- and full- with TX1, it suppresses both TX2 (whose receiver RX2 is duplex MAC algorithms, we find