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Full-duplex wireless communication enables concurrent transmission and reception over the same radio channel. It thus achieves higher efficiency in spectrum utilization compared with its half-duplex counterpart. In recent years, researchers have built several platforms for full-duplex wireless communications. However, none of these platforms provides full support for full-duplex WiFi, arguably the most popular wireless local-area networking technology. In this paper, we present GRT-duplex, a novel full-duplex wireless platform for the WiFi family, which possesses both flexibility and real-time features. We have also prototyped a full-duplex WiFi instance on this platform, which delivered throughput up to 92.45Mbps, and the frame interaction intervals can be as small as 9.85us.
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Project 61370056) and the HongKong, Macao and Taiwan Science & Technology Cooperation Program of China (No. 2014DFT10290)
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Tao Wang and Songwu Lu are both members of PKU-UCLA Joint Research Institute in Science and Engineering
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Wu, H., Wang, T., Chen, J. et al. GRT-duplex: A Novel SDR Platform for Full-Duplex WiFi. Mobile Netw Appl 21, 983–993 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-016-0710-z
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