The in-band full-duplex underwater acoustic communication (IBFD-UWAC) mode has twice the information throughput of the traditional half-duplex communication mode, significantly increasing the communication efficiency.Extracting the weak desired signal from the high-power self-interference signal without distortion remains a challenging problem in implementing IBFD-UWAC systems.This paper proposes a spatial-digital joint self-interference cancellation (SDSIC) method for IBFD-UWAC.
We first perform spatial self-interference cancellation (SSIC) and propose an improved Hoodie wideband constant-beamwidth beamformer to overcome the problem of direction- and array-dependent interference in IBFD-UWAC systems.Convex optimization is used to maintain a constant beam response in the main flap and cancel the self-interference signal from a fixed direction, thus increasing the signal-to-interference ratio of the desired signal.Subsequently, we perform digital self-interference cancellation (DSIC) on the residual self-interference signal, and propose a variable-step-size least-mean-squares algorithm based on the spatial noise threshold.
This algorithm modifies the least-mean-squares step-size adjustment criterion according to the noise level after SSIC and the desired signal, resulting in better DSIC.A series of simulations are implemented in a hardware-in-the-loop platform to verify the practicality and lunchbag real-time performance of the proposed SDSIC method.The results show that the self-interference signal power can be reduced by 41.
5 dB using the proposed method, an improvement of 13.5 dB over the conventional SIC method.