Gen-2 Open-Access Wideband Full-Duplex Radios in COSMOS

In order to support experimentation with wideband full-duplex (FD) wireless, we integrated the FlexICoN Gen-2 open-access wideband FD radios with the city-scale PAWR COSMOS testbed. Each Gen-2 FD radio consists of an antenna, a customized Gen-2 RF self-interference (SI) canceller, a USRP software-defined radio (SDR), and a compute node.

The Gen-2 FD radio achieves enhanced RF SI cancellation performance and bandwidth based on the technique of frequency-domain equalization (FDE) [8].

The printed circuit board (PCB) design of the FDE-based RF canceller is available below. A preliminary version of the system with this PCB canceller was presented in [7]. A detailed discussion and system- and network-level evaluation of the canceller are available in [4, 5]. The details about the integration of the Gen-2 FD radios in the COSMOS testbed is available in [1, 2, 3, 6]. We are working on integrating more cancellers and providing more advanced example experiments at different layers of the network stacks (PHY, Link, and above). Detailed tutorials and demos can be found here.

Gen-2 Open-Access Wideband Full-Duplex Radios in COSMOS

Figure 1. Gen-2 FD canceller board. (a) The implemented Gen-2 RF canceller consisting of a wideband frequency-domain equalization (FDE) path and a narrowband path, (b) the measured TX/RX isolation of the Gen-2 RF canceller without turning on the canceller, and with the narrowband (Gen-1)/wideband (FDE) path on, when the circulator antenna port is terminated by 50 ohm (left) and connected to an antenna (right), and (c) the implemented open-access Gen-2 wideband FD radios integrated in the COSMOS sandbox.

For more information, please see:

Gen-2 FDE-based RF Canceller Board Designs

Please email Tingjun Chen (tingjun [at] ee.columbia.edu) or Manav Kohli (mpk2138 [at] columbia.edu) if you use (or plan to use) the design of the FDE-based PCB canceller, or if you have any questions. We are currently working on an improved version of the PCB canceller and the design will be made available soon.

References

  1. M. Kohli, T. Chen, M. Baraani Dastjerdi, J. Welles, I. Seskar, H. Krishnaswamy, and G. Zussman, “Open-access full-duplex wireless in the ORBIT and COSMOS testbeds,” Computer Networks, no. 199, p. 108420, Nov. 2021. [download]

  2. M. Kohli, T. Chen, M. Baarani Dastjerdi, J. Welles, I. Seskar, H. Krishnaswamy, and G. Zussman, "Open-Access Full-Duplex Wireless in the ORBIT and COSMOS Testbeds," in Proc. ACM MobiCom'20 Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation & CHaracterization (WiNTECH '20) (invited paper), Sept. 2020. [download] [presentation] [video]

  3. M. Kohli, T. Chen, J. Welles, M. Baraani Dastjerdi, J. Kolodziejski, M. Sherman, I. Seskar, H. Krishnaswamy, and G. Zussman, "Demo: Remote experimentation with open-access full-duplex wireless in the COSMOS testbed," in Proc. ACM MobiCom'20, Sept. 2020. [download] [presentation] [video]

  4. T. Chen, M. Baraani Dastjerdi, J. Zhou, H. Krishnaswamy, and G. Zussman, “Wideband Full-Duplex Wireless via Frequency-Domain Equalization: Design and Experimentation,” in Proc. ACM MobiCom’19, Oct. 2019. [download] [presentation]

  5. T. Chen, M. Baraani Dastjerdi, J. Welles, J. Zhou, H. Krishnaswamy, and G. Zussman, “Poster: Enabling wideband full-duplex wireless via frequency-domain equalization,” in Proc. ACM MobiCom’19, Oct. 2019. [download]  ACM MobiCom Student Research Competition (SRC) Winner – First Place

  6. T. Chen, J. Welles, M. Kohli, M. Baraani Dastjerdi, J. Kolodziejski, M. Sherman, I. Seskar, H. Krishnaswamy, and G. Zussman, “Experimentation with full-duplex wireless in the COSMOS testbed,” in Proc. IEEE ICNP’19 Workshop Midscale Education and Research Infrastructure and Tools (MERIT), Oct. 2019. [download] [presentation]

  7. T. Chen, J. Zhou, M. Baraani Dastjerfi, J. Diakonikolas, H. Krishnaswamy, and G. Zussman, “Demo Abstract: Full-Duplex with a Compact Frequency Domain Equalization-based RF Canceller," in Proc. IEEE INFOCOM'17, Atlanta, GA, May 2017. [download]

  8. J. Zhou, T. Chuang, T. Dinc, and H. Krishnaswamy, “Integrated Wideband RF Self-Interference Cancellation for FDD and Full-Duplex Wireless,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (invited paper), vol. 50, no. 12, pp. 3015-3031, Dec. 2015. [doi]