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The device-to-device (D2D) communication theoretically provides both the cellular traffic offloading and convenient content delivery directly among proximity users. However, in practice, no matter in underlay or overlay mode, the employment…
One of key 5G scenarios is that device-to-device (D2D) and massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) will be co-existed. However, interference in the uplink D2D underlaid massive MIMO cellular networks needs to be coordinated, due to…
This paper considers a device-to-device (D2D) underlaid cellular network where an uplink cellular user communicates with the base station while multiple direct D2D links share the uplink spectrum. This paper proposes a random network model…
The concept of device-to-Device (D2D) communication as an underlay coexistence with cellular networks gains many advantages of improving system performance. In this paper, we model such a two-layer heterogenous network based on stochastic…
Device-to-device (D2D) communication will likely be added to LTE in 3GPP Release 12. In principle, exploiting direct communication between nearby mobile devices will improve spectrum utilization, overall throughput, and energy consumption,…
Offloading data traffic from Infrastructure-to-Device (I2D) to Device-to-Device (D2D) communications is a powerful tool for reducing congestion, energy consumption, and spectrum usage of mobile cellular networks. Prior network-level studies…
We propose a decentralized access control scheme for interference management in D2D (device-to-device) underlaid cellular networks. Our method combines SIR-aware link activation with cellular exclusion regions in a case where D2D links…
Network-assisted single-hop device-to-device (D2D) communication can increase the spectral and energy efficiency of cellular networks by taking advantage of the proximity, reuse, and hop gains when radio resources are properly managed…
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…
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…
This paper investigates the cooperative full-duplex device-to-device (D2D) communication underlaying cellular network, where the cellular user (CU) acts as a full-duplex relay to assist the D2D communication. To simultaneously support D2D…
Underlay device-to-device (D2D) multicast communication has potential to improve performance of cellular networks. However, co-channel interference among cellular users (CUs) and D2D multicast groups (MGs) limits the gains of such…
Device-to-Device (D2D) communications underlaying cellular networks is a viable network technology that can potentially increase spectral utilization and improve power efficiency for proximitybased wireless applications and services.…
This paper proposes a centralized decision making framework at the macro base station (MBS) for device to device (D2D) communication underlaying a two-tier cellular network. We consider a D2D pair in the presence of an MBS and a femto…
This paper presents the design and development of proof-of-concept Device-to-Device (D2D) Communication testbed. This testbed also seeks to address the design issues involved in the implementation of a D2D network in a realistic scenario.…
Device-to-device (D2D) underlaid cellular network, enabled with radio frequency energy harvesting (RFEH), and enhanced interference management schemes is a promising candidate to improve spectral and energy efficiency of next generation…
Device-to-device (D2D) communication underlaid with cellular networks is a new paradigm, proposed to enhance the performance of cellular networks. By allowing a pair of D2D users to communicate directly and share the same spectral resources…
Underlaying device-to-device (D2D) communications to a cellular network is considered as a key technique to improve spectral efficiency in 5G networks. For such D2D systems, mode selection and resource allocation have been widely utilized…
Device-to-device (D2D) communication has been recognized as a promising technique to improve spectrum efficiency. However, D2D transmission as an underlay causes severe interference, which imposes a technical challenge to spectrum…
In this paper, we study an energy efficiency maximization problem in uplink for D2D communications underlaid with cellular networks on multiple bands. Utilizing stochastic geometry, we derive closed-form expressions for the average sum…