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Device-to-device (D2D) communications recently have attracted much attention for its potential capability to improve spectral efficiency underlaying the existing heterogeneous networks (HetNets). Due to no sophisticated control, D2D user…
Device-to-device (D2D) communication has huge potential for capacity and coverage enhancements for next generation cellular networks. The number of potential nodes for D2D communication is an important parameter that directly impacts the…
Load balancing is an effective approach to address the spatial-temporal fluctuation problem of mobile data traffic for cellular networks. The existing schemes that focus on channel borrowing from neighboring cells cannot be directly applied…
Doubly-near-far problem in RF-powered networks can be mitigated by choosing appropriate device-to-device (D2D) communication mode and implementing energy-efficient information transfer (IT). In this work, we present a novel RF energy…
SimuLTE is a tool that enables system-level simulations of LTE/LTE-Advanced networks within OMNeT++. It is designed such that it can be plugged within network elements as an additional Network Interface Card (NIC) to those already provided…
Device-to-Device (D2D) discovery is a key enabler of D2D communications for the direct exchange of local area traffic between proximity users (UEs) to improve spectral efficiency. The direct D2D discovery relies on the capabilities of the…
User-to-network relaying enabled via Device-to-Device communications (D2D) is a promising technique for improving the performance of cellular networks. Since in practice relays are in mobility, a dynamic relay selection scheme is…
In this paper, using the stochastic geometry theory, we present a framework for analyzing the performance of device-to-device (D2D) communications underlaid uplink (UL) cellular networks. In our analysis, we consider a D2D mode selection…
In this paper, we study underlay device-to-device (D2D) communication systems empowered by a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) for cognitive cellular networks. Considering Rayleigh fading channels and the general case where there…
In this paper, we optimize the energy efficiency (bits/s/Hz/J) of device-to-multi-device (D2MD) wireless communications. While the device-to-device scenario has been extensively studied to improve the spectral efficiency in cellular…
Employing channel adaptive resource allocation can yield to a large enhancement in almost any performance metric of Device-to-Device (D2D) communications. We observe that D2D users are able to estimate their local Channel State Information…
With the extensive acquisition of various mobile applications, cellular networks are facing challenges due to exponentially growing demand for high data rate, which causes a great burden on mobile core networks and backhaul links.…
Device-to-device (D2D) communication is a promising technology for the future wireless systems. It allows direct communication between devices, which provides improvements in terms of delay, throughput and energy consumption. Therefore, it…
We propose a time-division uplink transmission scheme that is applicable to future cellular systems by introducing hybrid device-to-device (D2D) and infrastructure cooperation. We analyze its spectral efficiency and outage performance and…
Resource allocation is investigated to enhance the performance of device-to-device (D2D) cooperation in a fog radio access network (F-RAN) architecture. Our envisioned framework enables two D2D links to share certain orthogonal radio…
This paper proposes a mobile pipeline computing concept in a Device-to-Device (D2D) communication setup and studies related issues, where D2D is likely based on millimeter-wave (mmWave) in the 5G mobile communication. The proposed…
The increasing traffic demand in cellular networks has recently led to the investigation of new strategies to save precious resources like spectrum and energy. A possible solution employs direct device-to-device (D2D) communications, which…
The reference scenario in this paper is a single cell in a Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A) system, where multiple user equipments (UEs) aim at uploading some data to a central server or to the Cloud. The traditional uploading technique…
We consider the resource allocation problem in cellular networks which support Device-to-Device Communications (D2D). For systems that enable D2D via only orthogonal resource sharing, we propose and analyze two resource allocation policies…