  This paper considers a cellular system with a full-duplex base station and
half-duplex users. The base station can activate one user in uplink or downlink
(half-duplex mode), or two different users one in each direction simultaneously
(full-duplex mode). Simultaneous transmissions in uplink and downlink causes
self-interference at the base station and uplink-to-downlink interference at
the downlink user. Although uplink-to-downlink interference is typically
treated as noise, it is shown that successive interference decoding and
cancellation (SIC mode) can lead to significant improvement in network utility,
especially when user distribution is concentrated around a few hotspots. The
proposed temporal fair user scheduling algorithm and corresponding power
optimization utilizes full-duplex and SIC modes as well as half-duplex
transmissions based on their impact on network utility. Simulation results
reveal that the proposed strategy can achieve up to 95% average cell throughput
improvement in typical indoor scenarios with respect to a conventional network
in which the base station is half-duplex.
