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Device-to-device (D2D) technology enables direct communication between adjacent devices within cellular networks. Due to its high data rate, low latency, and performance improvement in spectrum and energy efficiency, it has been widely…
In this paper, a novel analytical model for resource allocation is proposed for a device-to-device (D2D) assisted cellular network. The proposed model can be applied to underlay and overlay D2D systems for sharing licensed bands and…
An important enabler towards the successful deployment of any new element/feature to the cellular network is the investigation and characterization of the operational conditions where its introduction will enhance performance. Even though…
The dramatic increase in data and connectivity demand, in addition to heterogeneous device capabilities, poses a challenge for future wireless networks. One of the promising solutions is Device-to-Device (D2D) networking. D2D networking,…
Device-to-device (D2D) communications is seen as a major technology to overcome the imminent wireless capacity crunch and to enable novel application services. In this paper, we propose a novel, social-aware approach for optimizing D2D…
Future mobile networks are supposed to serve high data rates required by users. To accommodate the high data rates, a direct communication between nearby mobile terminals (MTs), known as Device-to-device (D2D) communication, can be…
We consider a device-to-device (D2D) aided multicast channel, where a transmitter wishes to convey a common message to many receivers and these receivers cooperate with each other. We propose a simple computationally efficient scheme…
Device-to-device (D2D) communication is a promising approach to efficiently disseminate critical or viral information. Reaping the benefits of D2D-enabled networks is contingent upon choosing the optimal content dissemination policy subject…
Self-sustainable communications based on advanced energy harvesting technologies have been under rapid development, which facilitate autonomous operation and energy-efficient transmission. Recently, ambient backscattering that leverages…
In this paper, we propose a novel policy for device caching that facilitates popular content exchange through high-rate device-to-device (D2D) millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication. The D2D-aware caching (DAC) policy splits the cacheable…
Enabling the Internet of things in remote environments without traditional communication infrastructure requires a multi-layer network architecture. Devices in the overlay network such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are required to…
Motivated by increasing popularity of delay sensitive applications, we investigate the queue stability in device-to-device (D2D) relay-assisted cellular networks. In contrast to prior works on D2D relay-assisted cellular networks, we…
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…
Utilizing device-to-device (D2D) connections among mobile devices is promising to meet the increasing throughput demand over cellular links. In particular, when mobile devices are in close proximity of each other and are interested in the…
In this paper, we consider a massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) downlink system underlaid with a network of multi-antenna D2D user equipments (UEs). Each D2D transmitter (Tx) uses all its antennas to beamform information towards…
Multicasting for disseminating popular data is an interesting solution for improving the energy and spectral efficiencies of cellular networks. To improve the achievable performance of such networks, underlay device-to-device (D2D)…
New Architecture to support D2D communications, where discovery is made directly between devices while communications occur with the help of the E-Node B
In device-to-device (D2D) communication under a cell with resource sharing mode the spectrum resource utilization of the system will be improved. However, if the interference generated by the D2D user is not controlled, the performance of…
In a device-to-device (D2D) underlaid cellular network, the uplink spectrum is reused by the D2D transmissions, causing mutual interference with the ongoing cellular transmissions. Massive MIMO is appealing in such a context as the base…
Billions of Machine Type Communication (MTC) devices are foreseen to be deployed in next ten years and therefore potentially open a new market for next generation wireless network. However, MTC applications have different characteristics…