Device-to-Device (D2D) communication has recently emerged as a promising technology to improve the capacity and coverage of cellular systems. To successfully implement D2D communications underlaying a cellular network, resource allocation for D2D links plays a critical role. While most of prior resource allocation mechanisms for D2D communications have focused on interference within a single-ce...

Proximity-based applications are becoming fast growing markets suggesting that device-to-device (D2D) communications is becoming an essential part of the future mobile data networks. We propose scalable admission and power control methods for D2D communications underlay cellular networks to increase the reuse of frequency resources and thus network capacity while maintaining QoS to all users. I...

In Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A) networks, Device-to-device (D2D) communications can be utilized to enhance the performance of multicast services by leveraging D2D relays to serve nodes with worse channel conditions within a cluster. For traditional D2D relay schemes, D2D links with poor channel condition may be the bottleneck of system sum data rate. In this paper, to optimize the throu...

This article explores the recent 3GPP LTE D2D rel. 14 Radio Resource Management specification to identify the challenges and evaluate the potentials of Unsupervised LTE D2D (mode 2) for Safety-critical V2X Communications. It also proposes two distributed resource allocation strategies for unlicensed band access. Complementary to DSRC/ITS-G5, unsupervised LTE D2D is an opportunity to provide red...

This research report explores the recent 3GPP LTE D2D rel. 14 Radio Resource Management specification to identify the challenges and evaluate the potentials of Unsupervised LTE D2D (mode 2) for Safety-critical V2X Communications. It also proposes two distributed resource allocation strategies for unlicensed band access. Complementary to DSRC/ITS-G5, Unsupervised LTE D2D is an opportunity to pro...

In a device-to-device (D2D) communication underlaying cellular network, user equipment are required to operate cooperatively and unselfishly to transmit data as relays. However, most users more or less behave in a selfish way, which makes user selfishness a key factor that affects the performance of the whole communication system. We focus on the impact of user selfishness on D2D communications...

In this paper, we study the performance of the selection combining and switch and stay combining methods in secure cooperative device-to-device (D2D) communications underlying a cellular network where an untrusted amplify and forward relay helps D2D communications. In our model, we specifically consider the interference from the cellular system over the D2D pair and the interference from the D2...

In this paper, analytical assessment of overlayinband device-to-device (D2D) communications is investigated, under cellular-network-assisted (coordinated) scheduling. To this end, a simple scheduling scheme is assumed that takes into account only local (per cell) topological information of the D2D links. Stochastic geometry tools are utilized in order to obtain analytical expressions for the in...

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 deviceto-device (D2D) communications, which is particularly promising when the two terminals involved in the communications are located in close proximity. The D2D communications should coexist with oth...

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 criterion based on an energy threshold for each user equipment (UE). Specifically, a UE will operate in a cellular mode, if its received signal strength from t...