“…If not properly mitigated, SI severely impacts the performance, as it has been reported in [3], [21]. To cope with SI distortion, different mitigation methods, both in the analog and digital domains, have been developed, from which we highlight those based on interference suppression (exploitation of spatial diversity), e.g., [14], [22]- [25], and those based on interference cancellation (generation of an SI replica), e.g., [26]- [30]. Due to insufficient mitigation and high power transmission of the relay, residual SI may still be strong enough to limit performance [14], and, therefore, the relay design must account for the presence of residual SI.…”