Several applications, from the Internet of Things for smart cities to those for vehicular
networks, need fast and reliable proximity-based broadcast communications, ie, the ability to …

In an LTE-Advanced network, network-controlled Device-to-Device (D2D) communications
can be combined in a multihop fashion to distribute broadcasts over user-defined (and …

Device-to-device (D2D) communication has been proposed to improve the throughput of
multicast from the base station to user equipment (UE) in LTE-based access networks. Such …

This chapter deals with a comprehensive analysis of the challenges behind the introduction
of Device-to-Device (D2D) communications in the context of 5th Generation (5G) …

Considering that the future cellular networks are more content-centric, and content sharing
among user equipments (UEs) is more universal, device-to-device (D2D) communication …

Supporting ever‐increasing number of mobile users with data‐hungry applications, running
on battery‐limited devices, is a daunting challenge for the telecommunication community …

In recent years, data traffic has effectively increased with the emergence of high data rate
applications such as multimedia sharing services and online gaming. To accommodate this …

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 …

The reference scenario in this paper is a single cell in a Long Term Evolution-Advanced
(LTE-A) system, where multiple user equipments (UEs) aim at uploading some data to a …

Device‐to‐device communications, where mobile devices communicate directly with each
other, can augment device‐to‐infrastructure communications to greatly improve …