On relay selection schemes for relay-assisted D2D communications in LTE-A systems

R Ma, YJ Chang, HH Chen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Device-to-device (D2D) communication is a promising technique for traffic offloading in next-
generation cellular systems. However, the use of only direct D2D communications limits the …

Load balancing for 5G ultra-dense networks using device-to-device communications

H Zhang, L Song, YJ Zhang - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Load balancing is an effective approach to address the spatial-temporal fluctuation problem
of mobile data traffic for cellular networks. The existing schemes that focus on channel …

Incentivizing device-to-device load balancing for cellular networks: An online auction design

MH Hajiesmaili, L Deng, M Chen… - IEEE Journal on Selected …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The device-to-device load balancing (D2D-LB) paradigm has been advocated in recent
small-cell architecture design for cellular networks. The idea is to exploit inter-cell D2D …

Resource allocation for heterogeneous applications with device-to-device communication underlaying cellular networks

X Ma, J Liu, H Jiang - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile data traffic has been experiencing a phenomenal rise in the past decade. This ever-
increasing data traffic puts significant pressure on the infrastructure of state-of-the-art cellular …

Efficient resource allocation and power control for LTE-A D2D communication with pure D2D model

WK Lai, YC Wang, HC Lin, JW Li - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To support the rising number of user equipments (UEs), LTE-A allows some UEs directly
talking with each other to facilitate spectrum reuse, which is known as device-to-device …

Device-to-device communication in LTE-advanced networks: A survey

J Liu, N Kato, J Ma, N Kadowaki - … Communications Surveys & …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Among the LTE-A communication techniques, Device-to-Device (D2D) communication
which is defined to directly route data traffic between spatially closely located mobile user …

Handover schemes in heterogeneous LTE networks: challenges and opportunities

Y Li, B Cao, C Wang - IEEE Wireless Communications, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For satisfying rapidly increasing data rates at hotspots and enhancing coverage in buildings,
small cells, such as femtocells, picocells, and microcells, are deployed in LTE-A. Femtocells …

Resource allocation for device-to-device communications overlaying two-way cellular networks

Y Pei, YC Liang - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Device-to-device (D2D) communications has been proposed in the literature as an underlay
approach to cellular networks to allow direct transmission between two cellular devices with …

Smart load-based resource optimization model to enhance the performance of device-to-device communication in 5G-WPAN

J Logeshwaran, T Kiruthiga, R Kannadasan… - Electronics, 2023 - mdpi.com
In wireless personal area networks (WPANs), devices can communicate with each other
without relying on a central router or access point. They can improve performance and …

Resource allocation under channel uncertainties for relay-aided device-to-device communication underlaying LTE-A cellular networks

M Hasan, E Hossain, DI Kim - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Device-to-device (D2D) communication in cellular networks allows direct transmission
between two cellular devices with local communication needs. Due to the increasing …