MIMO Beamforming Schemes for Hybrid SIC FD Radios With Imperfect Hardware and CSI

We study a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) full-duplex (FD) radio system, aiming to increase the feasibility of this technology in bi-directional communications. In particular, we consider that the FD radios are equipped with the State-of-the-Art (SotA) hybrid SI cancellation (SIC) capabilities, but must cope with hardware (HW) and channel state information (CSI) imperfections, contributing four new MIMO beamforming (BF) schemes for such systems. The first is a transmit (TX) beamforming scheme designed via a Fractional Programming (FP) approach, matched with a minimum mean square error (MMSE) beamformer at the receiver. In this benchmark, the FP-based method, the signal to interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) constraints are relaxed via the quadratic transform (QT), which allows for the SINR-constrained TX-power minimization problem to be solved using interior point methods. Motivated by the high complexity of the latter, three low-complexity alternatives are then derived, in which power minimization is performed via the Perron–Frobenius (PF) approach, while the TX-BF vectors are obtained, respectively, via direct Gradient Projection (GP), QT-relaxation, and via a Double Rayleigh Quotient (DRQ) reformulation of the original optimization problem. The simulation results confirm the significant gains achieved by all four schemes over the SotA, revealing the GP and DRQ as the overall best alternatives depending on power limitation, and HW/CSI qualities.