Device-to-Device Communications in Unlicensed Spectrum: Problem Identification and Performance Maximization

D2D-U: Device-to-Device Communications in Unlicensed Bands

Device-to-Device (D2D) communication, which enables direct communication between nearby mobile devices, is an attractive add-on component to improve spectrum efficiency and user experience by reusing licensed cellular spectrum. Nowadays, LTE-unlicensed (LTE-U) emerges to extend the cellular network to the unlicensed spectrum to alleviate the spectrum scarcity issue. In this paper, we propose to...

Performance Analysis of Device to Device Communications Overlaying/Underlaying Cellular Network

Minimizing the outage probability and maximizing throughput are two important aspects in device to device (D2D) communications, which are greatly related to each other. In this paper, first, the exact formulas of the outage probability for D2D communications underlaying or overlaying cellular network are derived which jointly experience Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) and Rayleigh multipat...

Device-to-device (D2D) Meets LTE-Unlicensed

In this article, we look into how the LTE network can efficiently evolve to cater for new data services by utilizing direct communications between mobile devices and extending the direct transmissions to the unlicensed bands, i.e., device-to-device (D2D) communications in conjunction with LTE-Unlicensed. In doing so, it provides an opportunity to solve the main challenge of mutual interference ...

BLER Performance Evaluation of LTE Device-to-Device Communications

Performance analysis of device-to-device communications underlaying cellular networks

Device-to-device (D2D) communications underlaying cellular networks are considered to be promising communication modes to improve network radio resource efficiency and provide higher transmission data rates to devices close to each other. However, when D2D communications reuse cellular resources, the resulting interference will cause significant performance loss to cellular users. In this paper...