A constant need to increase the network capacity for meeting the growing demands of the
subscribers has led to the evolution of cellular communication networks from the first …

Direct communication between two or more devices without the intervention of a base
station, known as device-to-device (D2D) communication, is a promising way to improve …

The number of devices is expected to radically increase in near future, with an estimate of
above 50 billion connected devices by 2020. The subscribers demand improved data rates …

The evolving Fifth generation (5G) cellular wireless networks are envisioned to provide
higher data rates, lower end-to-end latency, and lower energy consumption for devices. In …

Device to Device (D2D) communication was first considered in out-band to manage energy
issues in the wireless sensor networks. The primary target was to secure information about …

Device to device (D2D) communication is one of the potentials to achieve the established
standards for 5G. It represents a direct communication between two devices located in the …

Device-to-device (D2D) communications, as one of the promising technology for the future
network, allow two devices in proximity to communicate directly with each other to alleviate …

Tremendous growing demand for high data rate services such as video, gaming and social
networking in wireless cellular systems, attracted researchers' attention to focus on …

Recently, there has been an increasing interest in offloading the 3GPP LTE data by using
device-to-device (D2D) communications between devices. However, the peer discovering is …

Recently, device-to-device (D2D)-underlaid fifth-generation (5G) cellular networks have
received plenty of attention because of their ability to save network resources and to reduce …