Embracing the contemporary wireless landscape, global research is rapidly advancing on
the 5G topics. Whereas Europe is definitely on the forefront of 5G research with Horizon …

The increasing number of mobile users has given impetus to the demand for high data rate
proximity services. The fifth-generation (5G) wireless systems promise to improve the …

Device-to-device (D2D) communication commonly refers to a type of technology that enable
devices to communicate directly with each other without communication infrastructures such …

Device-to-device (D2D) communication proposes a new epitome in mobile networking to
avail data exchange between physically proximate devices. The exploitation of D2D …

Routing is fundamental in any wireless network for path selection, which provides the most
effective way that legitimizes the data to be transmitted from a source to a destination device …

The proliferation of heterogeneous devices connected through large-scale networks is a
clear sign that the vision of the Internet of Things (IoT) is getting closer to becoming a reality …

As the standardization of network-assisted device-to-device (D2D) communications by the
Third Generation Partnership Project progresses, the research community has started to …

Device-to-device (D2D) communication technology for fifth generation (5G) mobile networks
enables user equipment (UE) to communicate directly with other UEs without or with partial …

In this editorial, I would like to highlight device-to-device (D2D) communication, which has
emerged as a hot research area for next generation cellular networks. D2D communication …

Abstract Device-to-device (D2D) communication is a new enabling technology for the next
generation cellular networks. In D2D communications, two or more user equipments directly …