Blockchain-based DDoS attack mitigation protocol for device-to-device interaction in smart home

Smart home devices are vulnerable to a variety of attacks.The matter gets more complicated when a number of devices collaborate to launch a colluding attack(e.g.,Distributed-Denial-of-Service(DDoS))in a network(e.g.,Smart home).To handle these attacks,most studies have hitherto proposed authentication protocols that cannot necessarily be implemented in devices,especially during Device-to-Device(D2D)interactions.Tapping into the potential of Ethereum blockchain and smart contracts,this work proposes a lightweight authentication mechanism that enables safe D2D interactions in a smart home.The Ethereum blockchain enables the implementation of a decentralized prototype as well as a peer-to-peer distributed ledger system.The work also uses a single server queuing system model and the authentication mechanism to curtail DDoS attacks by controlling the number of service requests in the system.The simulation was conducted twenty times,each with varying number of devices chosen at random(ranging from 1 to 30).Each requester device sends an arbitrary request with a unique resource requirement at a time.This is done to measure the system's consistency across a variety of device capabilities.The experimental results show that the proposed protocol not only prevents colluding attacks,but also outperforms the benchmark protocols in terms of computational cost,message processing,and response times.

Resource allocation method for device-to-device communications in cellular networks

Based on the conflict graph model which is formulated as a binary integer optimization problem, a resource allocation method to support device-to-device （D2D） communications in ceUular networks is proposed. First, a frequency resource assignment algorithm is presented which assigns each D2D link one frequency resource block. For this algorithm, frequency resource blocks are assigned so that the frequency resource spatial reuse opportunities in the cellular networks can be fully exploited. Then a slot scheduling algorithm is presented which schedules time slots among D2D links assigned the same frequency resource block. For this algorithm, time slot resources are scheduled so that the proportional fairness among D2D links which are assigned the same frequency resource block can be achieved. The performance of the proposed method is evaluated via computer simulations. The simulation results show that the proposed method can well support D2D communications in cellular networks.

在LTE-Advanced网络下的Device-to-Device通信

Device-to-Device(D2D)通信是一种在系统的控制下,允许终端之间通过复用小区资源直接进行通信的新型技术,它能够增加蜂窝通信系统频谱效率,降低终端发射功率,在一定程度上解决无线通信系统频谱资源匮乏的问题。与其他应用于非许可频段的同类技术相比,D2D具有干扰可控等优点。文章对D2D技术原理进行了介绍,阐述了它应用的必要性和应用场景、它对比同类技术的优点,以及在应用中的关键问题。

基于SIR的Device-to-Device移动社交网络信息传播模型

智能移动设备的迅速普及在加快移动社交网络发展的同时,也给底层通信网络带来了沉重的负担。为了缓解底层通信网络的负担,越来越多的社交网络应用开始采用Device-to-Device技术传播信息。本文以Device-to-Device移动社交网络为研究对象,首先分析该网络中用户参与信息传播的特点,然后在传染病模型的基础上构建适合此网络特点的信息传播模型,并利用该模型分析真实Device-to-Device环境中的信息传播过程。结果表明,Device-to-Device移动社交网络中的信息传播与基于Internet的社交网络中的信息传播有相似之处;但是,由于Device-to-Device移动社交网络存在较大的传播时延,信息在该网络中需要较长的时间才能达到传播高峰。

一种Device-to-Device移动社交网络中的热点文件预测方法

随着信息技术的蓬勃发展,移动社交网络越来越受到人们的关注,尤其是对移动社交网络中的热点分析.以基于Device-to-Device技术构建的移动社交网络为研究对象,从网络规模、文件分享特征以及用户影响力等方面入手,提出一种预测该类社交网络中热点文件的方法.该方法从信息和用户的角度出发,通过量化文件重要性、文件敏感性、用户参与力和用户影响力四个指标,利用多元线性回归方法建立预测模型,并在真实数据上验证了方法的有效性.

Performance analysis of graph-based scheduling for device-to-device communications overlaying cellular networks

The performance of the graph-based scheduling for device-to-device communications overlaying cellular networks is studied. The graph-based scheduling consists of two stages, the frequency assignment stage and the time slot scheduling stage. For such scheduling, a theoretical method to analyze the average spectrum efficiency of the D2D subsystem is proposed. The method consists of three steps. First, the frequency assignment stage is analyzed and the approximate formula of the average number of the D2D links which are assigned the same frequency is derived. Secondly, the time slot scheduling stage is analyzed and the approximate formula of the average probability of a D2D link being scheduled in a time slot is derived. Thirdly, the average spectrum efficiency of the D2D subsystem is analyzed and the corresponding approximate formula is derived. Analysis results show that the average spectrum efficiency of the D2D subsystem is approximately inversely linearly proportional to the second- order origin moment of the normalized broadcast radius of D2D links. Simulation results show that the proposed method can correctly predict the average spectrum efficiency of the D2D subsystem.

Device-to-Device通信的无线资源管理研究

在IMT-Advanced蜂窝网络中部署设备至设备(D2D:Device-to-Device)通信是当前无线领域内的一个研究热点,其主要的困难在于控制D2D与蜂窝系统间的干扰。D2D的无线资源管理机制和算法是实现系统间干扰协调的关键因素之一。文章从功率控制、资源调度和模式选择3个方面,介绍了D2D无线资源管理研究领域的最新成果和进展,并对未来发展方向进行了分析展望。

Distributed Power Control for Energy Conservation in Hybrid Cellular Network with Device-to-Device Communication

Device-to-Device(D2D) communication has been proposed as a promising implementation of green communication to benefit the existed cellular network.In order to limit cross-tier interference while explore the gain of short-range communication,we devise a series of distributed power control(DPC) schemes for energy conservation(EC)and enhancement of radio resource utilization in the hybrid system.Firstly,a constrained opportunistic power control model is built up to take advantage of the interference avoidance methodology in the presence of service requirement and power constraint.Then,biasing scheme and admission control are added to evade ineffective power consumption and maintain the feasibility of the system.Upon feasibility,a non-cooperative game is further formulated to exploit the profit in EC with minor influence on spectral efficiency(SE).The convergence of the DPC schemes is validated and their performance is confirmed via simulation results.

Device-to-Device Communication Underlaying Cellular Communications Systems

In this article we propose to facilitate local peer-to-peer communication by a Device-to-Device (D2D) radio that operates as an underlay network to an IMT-Advanced cellular network. It is expected that local services may utilize mobile peer-to-peer communication instead of central server based communication for rich mul-timedia services. The main challenge of the underlay radio in a multi-cell environment is to limit the inter-ference to the cellular network while achieving a reasonable link budget for the D2D radio. We propose a novel power control mechanism for D2D connections that share cellular uplink resources. The mechanism limits the maximum D2D transmit power utilizing cellular power control information of the devices in D2D communication. Thereby it enables underlaying D2D communication even in interference-limited networks with full load and without degrading the performance of the cellular network. Secondly, we study a single cell scenario consisting of a device communicating with the base station and two devices that communicate with each other. The results demonstrate that the D2D radio, sharing the same resources as the cellular net-work, can provide higher capacity (sum rate) compared to pure cellular communication where all the data is transmitted through the base station.

Coverage Probability Analysis for Full-Duplex Relay Aided Device-to-Device Communications Networks

The coverage probability of both the cellular users and the Device-to-Device(D2D) users are analyzed. We assume that the cellular users are able to communication with the Base Station(BS) either by relying on the assistance of Full-Duplex(FD) mode relays or via direct user-to-BS links with high-enough Signal-to-Interference-plus-Noise-Ratio(SINR). Note that the FD-mode devices are capable of simultaneously operating in two modes,i.e. the D2D mode and the cooperative relay mode,with the sum power consumption at these devices kept constant. The closedform expressions for coverage probability of both tier users are derived. After that,numerical analyses are provided,showing that the coverage probability of the both the cellular and the D2D users can be substantially influenced by a variety of parameters,including the power allocation factor of the relays,the density of users,and the self-interference imposed on the FD mode relays,etc. Furthermore,in the D2D enabled networks,it is shown that the FD relay aided transmission is beneficial to enhancing the coverage probability of the cellular users if the target SINR is lower than 5 d B.

A Review in the Core Technologies of 5G: Device-to-Device Communication, Multi-Access Edge Computing and Network Function Virtualization

5G is a new generation of mobile networking that aims to achieve unparalleled speed and performance. To accomplish this, three technologies, Device-to-Device communication (D2D), multi-access edge computing (MEC) and network function virtualization (NFV) with ClickOS, have been a significant part of 5G, and this paper mainly discusses them. D2D enables direct communication between devices without the relay of base station. In 5G, a two-tier cellular network composed of traditional cellular network system and D2D is an efficient method for realizing high-speed communication. MEC unloads work from end devices and clouds platforms to widespread nodes, and connects the nodes together with outside devices and third-party providers, in order to diminish the overloading effect on any device caused by enormous applications and improve users’ quality of experience (QoE). There is also a NFV method in order to fulfill the 5G requirements. In this part, an optimized virtual machine for middle-boxes named ClickOS is introduced, and it is evaluated in several aspects. Some middle boxes are being implemented in the ClickOS and proved to have outstanding performances.

A New TDD Scheme and Interference-Aware Precoding for Device-to-Device Underlay Massive MIMO

In device-to-device(D2D)underlay cellular networks with downlink spectrum sharing,massive MIMO seems promising as the large number of antennas at the base station(BS) can be utilized to suppress interference.However,the channel state information(CSI) from the BS to D2D receivers is required to obtain this advantage.In this paper,we first propose a novel time division duplex(TDD) scheme for D2D users to acquire this CSI,without additional pilot overhead.Moreover,we propose an interference-aware MMSE precoder utilizing the acquired CSI from the BS to not only cellular users but also D2D users to suppress the cellular-to-D2D interference.Simulation results show that our proposed TDD scheme and precoder can significantly improve the achievable sum spectral efficiency(SE) and D2D SE,compared to the classical MMSE precoder.Compared with the interferenceaware ZF precoder,whose performance severely degrades for large user numbers,our proposed interference-aware MMSE precoder can always guarantees a high and stable performance in terms of achievable SE.

Resource Allocation and Beamforming Algorithm Based on Interference Avoidance Approach for Device-to-Device Communication Underlaying LTE Cellular Network

In this work, we consider device-to-device (D2D) direct communication underlaying a 3GPP LTE-A network. D2D communication enables new service opportunities, provides high throughput and reliable communication while reducing the base station load. For better total performance, D2D links and cellular links share the same radio resource and the management of interference becomes a crucial task. We propose a radio resource allocation for D2D links based on interference avoidance approach. For system with multiple transmit antennas, we apply beamforming technique based on signal to leakage criterion to reduce the co-channel interference. The results show that, D2D transmission with the resource allocation and beamforming technique provides significant gain compared to that of the regular cellular network.

Adaptive Delay Optimization of Multicast-Enabled Coded Caching in Device-to-Device Networks

This letter investigates a delay optimization problem in device-to-device(D2D)networks where users have pre-downloaded subfiles following a coded caching rule.Due to acquiring rest subfiles,users may suffer both receiving and transmitting delays.To achieve the delay minimization,we first propose a delay-aware mode-selection strategy to adaptively choose multicast or D2D communications mode to reduce the receiving-caused delay.By matching these transmit modes with distinct subfile sizes,we further formulate a min-max optimization problem to minimize the delivery delay.Finally,numerical results prove that the proposed scheme outperforms existing ones in terms of both receiving and transmitting delays.

Cache Hit Ratio Maximization in Device-to-Device Communications Overlaying Cellular Networks

This paper investigates the content placement problem to maximize the cache hit ratio in device-to-device(D2D)communications overlaying cellular networks.We consider offloading contents by users themselves,D2D communications and multicast,and we analyze the relationship between these offloading methods and the cache hit ratio.Based on this relationship,we formulate the content placement optimization as a cache hit ratio maximization problem,and propose a heuristic algorithm to solve it.Numerical results demonstrate that the proposed scheme can outperform existing schemes in terms of the cache hit ratio.

Resource Allocation Method of Device-to-Device Communication

In this paper, we study D2D (Device-to-Device) communication underlying LTE-Advanced uplink system. Since D2D communication reuses uplink resources with cellular communication in this scenario, it’s hard to avoid the inference between D2D users and cellular users. If there is no restriction for D2D communication on using the whole uplink frequency band, it will have a strong negative impact on cellular communication. In order to overcome this shortage, we propose a resource allocation method that D2D users and cellular users use orthogonal frequency resources. This method will effectively reduce the inference between both kinds of communication. However, an obvious disadvantage of this method is no effective use of uplink resources. Based on this, we propose an optimized resource allocation method that a specific cellular user will be chosen to reuse the RBs (Resource Block) of D2D users. These ideas will be taken into system-level simulation, and from the results of simulation we can see that the optimized method has the ability to improve overall system performance and limit inference for cell-edge users.

Transceiver Optimization for Multi-Antenna Device-to-Device Communications

It has been shown that the deployment of device-to-device(D2D) communication in cellular systems can provide better support for local services. However, improper design of the hybrid system may cause severe interference between cellular and D2D links. In this paper, we consider transceiver design for the system employing multiple antennas to mitigate the interference. The precoder and decoder matrices are optimized in terms of sum mean squared error(MSE) and capacity, respectively. For the MSE minimization problem, we present an alternative transceiver optimization algorithm. While for the non-convex capacity maximization problem, we decompose the primal problem into a sequence of standard convex quadratic programs for efficient optimization. The evaluation of our proposed algorithms for performance enhancement of the entire D2D integrated cellular system is carried out through simulations.

Complexity Effective Frequency and Sidelink Synchronization Algorithm for LTE Device-to-Device Communication Systems

Device-to-device(D2D)communication is considered as a major challenge in the long term evolution(LTE)network wherein devices directly communicate with each other.One of the key challenges in D2D sidelink is reliable and reduced-complexity synchronization.To address this issue,a computationally efficient sequential detection scheme for integer carrier frequency offset and sidelink identity is proposed in the LTE-D2D system.To perform the frequency offset detection without retrieving the sidelink identity,the conjugate relation between two primary sidelink synchronization sequences is exploited,which facilitates the detection tasks of frequency offset and sidelink identity to be decoupled.It is demonstrated from simulation results that the inherent property of the sidelink synchronization sequences is effectively used for joint detection of frequency offset and sidelink identity with significantly reduced complexity,compared to existing estimation schemes.

Device-to-Device Based Cooperative Relaying for 5G Network:A Comparative Review

Due to the proliferation of mobile internet access, the cellu-lar traffic is envisaged to experience a 1000-fold growth inthe second decade of the 21 st century. To meet such a hugetraffic demand, the Fifth Generation(5G) network have toadopt new techniques to substantially increase spectral effi-ciency and reliability. At the base station side, available re-sources(power supply, equipment size, processing capability,etc.) are far more sufficient than that of the terminal side,which imposes a high challenge on the uplink transmission.The concept of cooperative communications opens a possibili-ty of using multiple terminals to cooperatively achieve spa-tial diversity that is typically obtained by means of multipleantennas in the base station. The application of Device-to-Device(D2D) communications in the 3GPP LTE system fur-ther pushes the collaboration of terminals from the theory tothe practice. The utilization of D2D-based cooperative relay-ing is promising in the era of 5G. In this paper, we compara-tively study several cooperative multi-relay schemes, includ-ing the proposed opportunistic space-time coding, in thepresence of imperfect channel state information. The numeri-cal results reveal that the proposed scheme is the best coop-erative solution until now from the perspective of multiplex-ing-diversity tradeoff.

Outage Probability Based on Relay Selection Method for Multi-Hop Device-to-Device Communication

To improve the connectivity of device-to-device(D2D)communication between delay-assisted vehicles,a multi-hop D2D relay selection strategy based on outage probability is proposed.The algorithm firstly clusters the relay users based on the distance of D2D users,and determines the number of one-hop relay nodes through the outage probability threshold.Two-hop relay nodes directly select the same number of relays as one-hop relay nodes according to the descending order of signal noise ratio(SNR)to establish a square matrix.The Hungarian algorithm is used to assign the relay nodes of two clusters to complete the inter relay communication.Finally,the information is sent to the D2D receiver by combining technology.The simulation results show that this algorithm can reduce the cost of relay probing process and the outage probability of system in multi-hop D2D relay communication.