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Full-Duplex Wireless Communications Using Off-The-Shelf Radios: Feasibility and First Results Melissa Duarte and Ashutosh Sabharwal Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005 Email: mduarte, ashu@ Abstract—We study full-duplex wireless communication systems we consider a combination of Antenna Separation , Analog where same band simultaneous bidirectional communication is Cancellation, and Digital Cancellation. More specifically, we achieved via cancellation of the self-interfering signal. Using off- have implemented the following three mechanisms for self- the-shelf MIMO radios, we present experimental results that char- acterize the suppression performance of three self-interference interference cancellation. 1) Antenna Separation and Digital cancellation mechanisms, which combine a different mix of analog Cancellation, 2) Antenna Separation and Analog Cancellation, and digital cancellation. Our experimental results show that and 3) Antenna Separation, Analog and Digital Cancellation. while the amount of self-interference increases linearly with We present an experimental evaluation of these three different the transmitted power, the self-interference can be sufficiently self-interference cancellation mechanisms and their effect on cancelled to make full-duplex wireless communication feasible in many cases. Our experimental results further show that if the performance of full-duplex wireless systems. For our exper- the self-interference is cancelled in the analog domain before the iments we have considered transmission powers from -5 dBm interfering signal reaches the receiver front end, then th