Owing to the further proliferation of new mobile applications, eg autonomous driving,
automated process control, smart cities/homes, and tactile internet, the number and density …

As one of next-generation wireless communication systems, Third Generation Partnership
Project (3GPP) Long Term Evolution (LTE) is committed to provide technologies for high …

Device-to-device (D2D) communication is a promising new feature in LTE-Advanced
networks. It is brought up to enable efficient discovery and communication between …

The demand for high-data-rate transmission has triggered the design and development of
advanced cellular networks, such as fourth-generation (4G) Long-Term Evolution (LTE) …

Device-to-Device (D2D) communication, while being network-assisted, is seen as promising
technology for the next generation of wireless systems as a mean to improve the utiliza tion …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The usage of mobile data services over cellular spectrum has been dramatically increased
in the last decade. The increment led to an explosive growth in user's booming data …

Device-to-Device (D2D) communication technology has become a key factor in wireless
sensor networks to form autonomous communication links among sensor nodes. Many …