MAC Protocol Design in Full-duplex Enabled Wireless Networks

This book thoroughly examines the design of full-duplex medium access control (MAC) protocols in wireless networks. It is organized into three main sections: (a) Fundamentals and preliminaries of full-duplex communications, (b) A comprehensive review of the existing full-duplex MAC protocols, and (c) Designs of full-duplex MAC protocols in three typical wireless networks, i.e., wireless local access networks (WLANs), multi-hop networks and millimeter-wave networks. Also, the authors extensively address key challenges in these three wireless full-duplex networks, such as the hidden-node problem, accumulative interference, and deafness and blockage problems. Solutions to these challenges are meticulously devised to enhance the overall network performance.

The wireless full-duplex communication technique, facilitating simultaneous transmission and reception within the same frequency band, holds immense potential for enhancing spectrum efficiency and network capacity. It emerges as a pivotal technology in the sixth-generation (6G) networks. This book provides a comprehensive review and in-depth exploration of full-duplex MAC design across various networks, encompassing WLANs, multi-hop networks, and millimeter-wave networks. Acknowledging the challenges faced by full-duplex WLANs, particularly the hidden-node problem, it also introduces a pioneering hidden-node-free design and a MAC protocol design, which features a full-duplex enhanced carrier-sensing mechanism. Addressing the need to augment end-to-end throughput in multi-hop networks employing full-duplex relaying, the authors present an analytical model for end-to-end throughput and propose a multi-hop full-duplex MAC protocol designed to optimize network performance. Furthermore, the exploration extends to full-duplex millimeter-wave networks, delving into issues of deafness and blockage. A directional full-duplex MAC protocol is introduced to enhance network capacity and mitigate blockage problems. This book concludes by outlining prospective research directions within the related fields of study and offers valuable insights for future exploration.

This book targets researchers and advanced level students in computer science and electrical engineering. It also caters to professionals engaged in the fields of wireless networks, full-duplex system, protocol design, and network optimization will also buy this book.

Liqun Fu is a Full Professor of the School of Informatics at Xiamen University, China. She received her Ph.D. Degree in Information Engineering from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2010. She was a post-doctoral research fellow with the Institute of Network Coding of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the ACCESS Linnaeus Centre of KTH Royal Institute of Technology during 2011-2013 and 2013- 2015, respectively. She was with ShanghaiTech University as an Assistant Professor during 2015-2016. Her research interests are mainly in communication theory, optimization theory, game theory, and learning theory, with applications in wireless networks. She is on the editorial board of IEEE Communications Letters and the Journal of Communications and Information Networks (JCIN). She served as the Technical Program Co-Chair of the GCCCN Workshop of the IEEE INFOCOM 2014, the Publicity Co-Chair of the GSNC Workshop of the IEEE INFOCOM 2016, and the Web Chair of the IEEE WiOpt 2018.She also serves as a TPC member for many leading conferences in communications and networking, such as the IEEE INFOCOM, ICC, and GLOBECOM.
Shengbo Liu received the B.E. degree in Information Engineering from Nantong University, China, and the M.E. degree in Information Engineering from University of Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, in 2015 and 2018, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in Information and Communication Engineering from Xiamen University, China, in 2022. Starting from 2022, he works as a Post-doctoral Fellow with with the Frontier Research Center in the Peng Cheng Laboratory. His research interests include 6G networks, digital twin, and medium access control.
Wen Wu earned the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, in 2019. He received the B.E. degree in Information Engineering from South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China, and the M.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, in 2012 and 2015, respectively. He worked as a Post-doctoral Fellow with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo. He is currently an Associate Researcher at the Frontier Research Center, Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China. His research interests include 6G networks, pervasive network intelligence, digital twin, and network virtualization.
Ning Zhang received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 2015., He was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the University of Waterloo and the University of Toronto, Canada. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON, Canada. His research interests include connected vehicles, mobile edge computing, wireless networking, and machine learning. He was a recipient ofthe NSERC PDF Award in 2015 and six best paper awards from IEEE GLOBECOM in 2014, IEEE WCSP in 2015, IEEE ICC in 2019, IEEE ICCC in 2019, the IEEE Technical Committee on Transmission Access and Optical Systems in 2019, and the Journal of Communications and Information Networks in 2018. He is/was also the TPC Chair of the IEEE SAGC 2020, the Track Chair of several international conferences, including IEEE VTC 2020, IEEE ICC 2022, AICON 2020, and CollaborateCom 2020, and the co-chair of numerous international workshops. He is also an Associate Editor of the IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, and IEEE Systems Journal, and the Guest Editor of several international journals, such as IEEE Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, and IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking. He is a Highly Cited Researcher (Web of Science).
Weihua Zhuang received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Dalian Maritime University, China, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of New Brunswick, Canada, all in electrical engineering. Since 1993, she has been a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada, where she is a University Professor and a Tier I Canada Research Chair in wireless communication networks. Her current research focuses on network architecture, algorithms and protocols, and service provisioning in future communication systems. She is the recipient of Women's Distinguished Career Award in 2021 from IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, R.A. Fessenden Award in 2021 from IEEE Canada, Award of Merit in 2021 from the Federation of Chinese Canadian Professionals (Ontario), and Technical Recognition Award in Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks in 2017 from IEEE Communications Society. Dr. Zhuang is a Fellow of the IEEE, Royal Society of Canada (RSC), Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE), and Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC). She is the Executive Vice President and an elected member of the Board of Governors (BoG) of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. She was the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (2007-2013), an editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (2005-2009), General Co-Chair of IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC) 2021, Technical Program Committee (TPC) Chair/Co-Chair of IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference 2017 Fall and 2016 Fall, TPC Symposia Chair of the IEEE Globecom 2011, and an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer (2008-2011).