Pilot-Projected Nonlinear Self-Interference Estimation with Simultaneous Uplink Training
Abstract
This paper considers nonlinear digital self-interference (SI) cancellation and uplink-channel estimation for single-antenna in-band full-duplex radios when a desired uplink pilot is present during SI training. In this setting, a rich nonlinear SI dictionary can absorb part of the structured pilot response, while its large and correlated set of basis functions can make reliable SI estimation difficult, particularly with limited training. During SI-coefficient estimation, we treat the unknown uplink channel as a nuisance parameter and eliminate it to obtain an equivalent reduced SI estimation problem on the orthogonal complement of the pilot convolution subspace. Since the projected nonlinear dictionary can remain ill conditioned, we develop two complementary full-dictionary estimators: a pilot-projected ridge estimator with Bayesian-information-criterion tuning (PP-RidgeBIC), which uses global ridge shrinkage, and a pilot-projected group-sparse Bayesian estimator (PP-GSBE), which learns branch-dependent Bayesian shrinkage from the data. These estimators offer two complementary operating points: PP-RidgeBIC favors computational efficiency, whereas PP-GSBE provides greater adaptivity to heterogeneous nonlinear SI components. Simulations show substantial gains in SI cancellation and uplink reception over non-projected and hard-selection alternatives; notably, PP-GSBE suppresses the residual SI below the noise floor with moderate training and consistently provides the strongest performance under nonlinear model mismatch.
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BibTeX
@misc{azimiabarghouyi2026pilotprojected,
title = {{Pilot-Projected Nonlinear Self-Interference Estimation with Simultaneous Uplink Training}},
author = {Seyed Mohammad Azimi-Abarghouyi and Thomas Eriksson},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.24243},
eprint = {2610.24243},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.24243},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Pilot-Projected Nonlinear Self-Interference Estimation with Simultaneous Uplink Training
AU - Seyed Mohammad Azimi-Abarghouyi
AU - Thomas Eriksson
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/16
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.24243
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.24243
AB - This paper considers nonlinear digital self-interference (SI) cancellation and uplink-channel estimation for single-antenna in-band full-duplex radios when a desired uplink pilot is present during SI training. In this setting, a rich nonlinear SI dictionary can absorb part of the structured pilot response, while its large and correlated set of basis functions can make reliable SI estimation difficult, particularly with limited training. During SI-coefficient estimation, we treat the unknown uplink channel as a nuisance parameter and eliminate it to obtain an equivalent reduced SI estimation problem on the orthogonal complement of the pilot convolution subspace. Since the projected nonlinear dictionary can remain ill conditioned, we develop two complementary full-dictionary estimators: a pilot-projected ridge estimator with Bayesian-information-criterion tuning (PP-RidgeBIC), which uses global ridge shrinkage, and a pilot-projected group-sparse Bayesian estimator (PP-GSBE), which learns branch-dependent Bayesian shrinkage from the data. These estimators offer two complementary operating points: PP-RidgeBIC favors computational efficiency, whereas PP-GSBE provides greater adaptivity to heterogeneous nonlinear SI components. Simulations show substantial gains in SI cancellation and uplink reception over non-projected and hard-selection alternatives; notably, PP-GSBE suppresses the residual SI below the noise floor with moderate training and consistently provides the strongest performance under nonlinear model mismatch.
ER -