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Device-to-device (D2D) communication enables us to spread information in the local area without infrastructure support. In this paper, we focus on information spreading in mobile wireless networks where all nodes move around. The source…
Recovering postdisaster communications has become a major challenge for search and rescue. Device-to-device (D2D) and device-to-vehicle (D2V) networks have drawn attention. However, due to the limited D2D coverage and onboard energy,…
Cellular data traffic almost doubles every year, greatly straining network capacity. The main driver for this development is wireless video. Traditional methods for capacity increase (like using more spectrum and increasing base station…
Small-cell architecture is widely adopted by cellular network operators to increase network capacity. By reducing the size of cells, operators can pack more (low-power) base stations in an area to better serve the growing demands, without…
Cellular offloading in device-to-device communication is a challenging optimisation problem in which the improved allocation of radio resources can increase spectral efficiency, energy efficiency, throughout and reduce latency. The academic…
The mobile edge computing framework offers the opportunity to reduce the energy that devices must expend to complete computational tasks. The extent of that energy reduction depends on the nature of the tasks, and on the choice of the…
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…
Most recent works in device-to-device (D2D) underlay communications focus on the optimization of either power or channel allocation to improve the spectral efficiency, and typically consider uplink and downlink separately. Further, several…
We consider a wireless device-to-device (D2D) network where the nodes have cached information from a library of possible files. Inspired by the current trend in the standardization of the D2D mode for 4th generation wireless networks, we…
Mobile Edge Caching is a promising technique to enhance the content delivery quality and reduce the backhaul link congestion, by storing popular content at the network edge or mobile devices (e.g. base stations and smartphones) that are…
Device-to-device (D2D) aided beamforming for coded caching is considered in finite signal-to-noise ratio regime. A novel beamforming scheme is proposed where the local cache content exchange among nearby users is exploited. The transmission…
Scavenging the idling computation resources at the enormous number of mobile devices can provide a powerful platform for local mobile cloud computing. The vision can be realized by peer-to-peer cooperative computing between edge devices,…
Offloading traffic through opportunistic communications has been recently proposed as a way to relieve the current overload of cellular networks. Opportunistic communication can occur when mobile device users are (temporarily) in each…
The increase in demand for spectrum-based services forms a bottleneck in wireless networks. Device-to-Device (D2D) caching networks tackle this problem by exploiting user's behavior predictability and the possibility of sharing data between…
In this paper, we jointly consider communication, caching and computation in a multi-user cache-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) system, consisting of one base station (BS) of caching and computing capabilities and multiple users with…
Cellular network performance can significantly benefit from direct device-to-device (D2D) communication, but interference from cochannel D2D communication limits the performance gain. In hybrid networks consisting of D2D and cellular links,…
As wireless video transmission is the fastest-growing form of data traffic, methods for spectrally efficient video on-demand wireless streaming are essential to service providers and users alike. A key property of video on-demand is the…
Caching popular contents at mobile devices, assisted by device-to-device (D2D) communications, is considered as a promising technique for mobile content delivery. It can effectively reduce backhaul traffic and service cost, as well as…
Device-to-device (D2D) assisted offloading heavily depends on the participation of human users. The content preference and sharing willingness of human users are two crucial factors in the D2D assisted offloading. In this paper, with…
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…