Resource allocation for D2D-assisted haptic communications

Haptic communications is recognized as a promising enabler of extensive services by enabling real-time haptic control and feedback in remote environments,e.g.,teleoperation and autonomous driving.Considering the strict transmission requirements on reliability and latency,Device-to-Device(D2D)communications is introduced to assist haptic communications.In particular,the teleoperators with poor channel quality are assisted by auxiliaries,and each auxiliary and its corresponding teleoperator constitute a D2D pair.However,the haptic interaction and the scarcity of radio resources pose severe challenges to the resource allocation,especially facing the sporadic packet arrivals.First,the contentionbased access scheme is applied to achieve low-latency transmission,where the resource scheduling latency is omitted and users can directly access available resources.In this context,we derive the reliability index of D2D pairs under the contention-based access scheme,i.e.,closed-loop packet error probability.Then,the reliability performance is guaranteed by bidirectional power control,which aims to minimize the sum packet error probability of all D2D pairs.Potential game theory is introduced to solve the problem with low complexity.Accordingly,a distributed power control algorithm based on synchronous log-linear learning is proposed to converge to the optimal Nash Equilibrium.Experimental results demonstrate the superiority of the proposed learning algorithm.

An Optimal Algorithm for Resource Allocation in D2D Communication

The number of mobile devices accessing wireless networks isskyrocketing due to the rapid advancement of sensors and wireless communicationtechnology. In the upcoming years, it is anticipated that mobile datatraffic would rise even more. The development of a new cellular networkparadigm is being driven by the Internet of Things, smart homes, and moresophisticated applications with greater data rates and latency requirements.Resources are being used up quickly due to the steady growth of smartphonedevices andmultimedia apps. Computation offloading to either several distantclouds or close mobile devices has consistently improved the performance ofmobile devices. The computation latency can also be decreased by offloadingcomputing duties to edge servers with a specific level of computing power.Device-to-device (D2D) collaboration can assist in processing small-scaleactivities that are time-sensitive in order to further reduce task delays. The taskoffloading performance is drastically reduced due to the variation of differentperformance capabilities of edge nodes. Therefore, this paper addressed thisproblem and proposed a new method for D2D communication. In thismethod, the time delay is reduced by enabling the edge nodes to exchangedata samples. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm has betterperformance than traditional algorithm.

Performance Analysis in SWIPT-Based Bidirectional D2D Communications in Cellular Networks

In this paper,a novel traffic-aware cooperative cognitive radio network that can enable deviceto-device(D2D)communications in cellular system is proposed and investigated.By providing relay cooperation to cellular transmission,D2D users can realize their own two-way communication in the licensed spectrum.Unlike most existing works,in the proposed network,both wireless-powered D2D users can harvest energy via radio-frequency signals received from basic station(BS)through a hybrid protocol which can adaptively utilize both time-switching and powersplitting techniques.Specifically,D2D users perform decode-and-forward operation to transmit signals,and mobile user(MU)employs a selection combining technique.In addition,the performance of both D2D system and cellular system in the proposed network is evaluated by deriving the expressions of their exact outage probability and throughput.Numerical and simulation results validate correctness of derivations and reveal the influence of various system parameters of the proposed network.

Outage Probability Analysis for D2D-Enabled Heterogeneous Cellular Networks with Exclusion Zone:A Stochastic Geometry Approach

Interference management is one of the most important issues in the device-to-device(D2D)-enabled heterogeneous cellular networks(HetCNets)due to the coexistence of massive cellular and D2D devices in which D2D devices reuse the cellular spectrum.To alleviate the interference,an efficient interference management way is to set exclusion zones around the cellular receivers.In this paper,we adopt a stochastic geometry approach to analyze the outage probabilities of cellular and D2D users in the D2D-enabled HetCNets.The main difficulties contain three aspects:1)how to model the location randomness of base stations,cellular and D2D users in practical networks;2)how to capture the randomness and interrelation of cellular and D2D transmissions due to the existence of random exclusion zones;3)how to characterize the different types of interference and their impacts on the outage probabilities of cellular and D2D users.We then run extensive Monte-Carlo simulations which manifest that our theoretical model is very accurate.

Energy Efficiency and Spectrum Efficiency in Underlay Device-to-Device Communications Enabled Cellular Networks

In this paper, we investigate the energy efficiency and spectrum efficiency, including one-hop device-to-device(D2D) communications mode and two-way amplify-and-forward(AF) relaying D2D communications mode in underlay D2D communications enabled cellular networks. An analysis of average energy efficiency and spectrum efficiency are developed and closed-form expressions are obtained for two types of D2D communications modes under the effect of Rayleigh fading channel, path loss, and co-channel interference. Analytical results are validated through numerical simulations. Based on the simulation, the effects of the interference, the distance between D2D pair and the position of relay node on the energy efficiency and spectrum efficiency of D2D communications are investigated. The optimal D2D transmission powers of these two modes to maximize the energy efficiency are also investigated.

A Robust Resource Allocation Scheme for Device-to-Device Communications Based on Q-Learning

One of the most effective technology for the 5G mobile communications is Device-to-device(D2D)communication which is also called terminal pass-through technology.It can directly communicate between devices under the control of a base station and does not require a base station to forward it.The advantages of applying D2D communication technology to cellular networks are:It can increase the communication system capacity,improve the system spectrum efficiency,increase the data transmission rate,and reduce the base station load.Aiming at the problem of co-channel interference between the D2D and cellular users,this paper proposes an efficient algorithm for resource allocation based on the idea of Q-learning,which creates multi-agent learners from multiple D2D users,and the system throughput is determined from the corresponding state-learning of the Q value list and the maximum Q action is obtained through dynamic power for control for D2D users.The mutual interference between the D2D users and base stations and exact channel state information is not required during the Q-learning process and symmetric data transmission mechanism is adopted.The proposed algorithm maximizes the system throughput by controlling the power of D2D users while guaranteeing the quality-of-service of the cellular users.Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm effectively improves system performance as compared with existing algorithms.

Interference Cancellation in Device-to-Device Communications underlying MU-MIMO Cellular Networks

This paper investigates the device-to-device(D2 D) communication underlaying multi-user multi-input multi-output(MU-MIMO) cellular networks. It is assumed that D2 D users reuse the downlink time-frequency resources of cellular links, and the base station(BS) is assumed to be equipped with multiple antennas. We investigate the ergodic achievable sum rate of the system when the interference cancellation(IC) precoding strategy is employed at the BS. The distributions of the received signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio(SINR) for each link are firstly analyzed, and an exact ergodic achievable sum rate of the whole system with closedform expressions is then derived. Furthermore, we present novel upper and lower bounds with simpler expressions, which are later verified to be fairly close to the Monte-Carlo simulations. All the expressions we presented are suitable for arbitrary network topology and arbitrary number of antennas at BS. Based on the derived bounds, the influence of the antennas at BS on system performance is then analyzed. We reveal that the system performance increases along with the number of antennas at BS in a logarithmic way. The accuracy of our analytical results is validated via comparisons with Monte-Carlo simulations.

Performance for Device-to-Device Communication with Three-Time-Slot Two-Way Amplify-and-Forward Relay Protocol

Multi-hop device-to-device(D2D) communication can significantly improve the system performance. This paper studied the outage performance of D2 D communication assisted by another D2 D user using three-timeslot two-way amplify-and-forward relaying protocol over Rayleigh fading channels. Considering the co-channel interference from cellular user at the D2 D node,the approximate expression for the overall outage probability was derived. Furthermore,a power allocation optimum method to minimize the outage probability was developed,and the closed form expression for the optimal power allocation coefficient at the relay was derived. Simulation results demonstrate accuracy of the derived outage probability expressions. Simulation results also demonstrate that the outage performance can be improved using the proposed optimal power allocation method.

Resource Allocation and Power Control Policy for Device-to-Device Communication Using Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Device-to-Device(D2D)communication is a promising technology that can reduce the burden on cellular networks while increasing network capacity.In this paper,we focus on the channel resource allocation and power control to improve the system resource utilization and network throughput.Firstly,we treat each D2D pair as an independent agent.Each agent makes decisions based on the local channel states information observed by itself.The multi-agent Reinforcement Learning(RL)algorithm is proposed for our multi-user system.We assume that the D2D pair do not possess any information on the availability and quality of the resource block to be selected,so the problem is modeled as a stochastic non-cooperative game.Hence,each agent becomes a player and they make decisions together to achieve global optimization.Thereby,the multi-agent Q-learning algorithm based on game theory is established.Secondly,in order to accelerate the convergence rate of multi-agent Q-learning,we consider a power allocation strategy based on Fuzzy C-means(FCM)algorithm.The strategy firstly groups the D2D users by FCM,and treats each group as an agent,and then performs multi-agent Q-learning algorithm to determine the power for each group of D2D users.The simulation results show that the Q-learning algorithm based on multi-agent can improve the throughput of the system.In particular,FCM can greatly speed up the convergence of the multi-agent Q-learning algorithm while improving system throughput.

Optimal Resource Allocation Method for Device-to-Device Communication in 5G Networks

With the rapid development of the next-generation mobile network,the number of terminal devices and applications is growing explosively.Therefore,how to obtain a higher data rate,wider network coverage and higher resource utilization in the limited spectrum resources has become the common research goal of scholars.Device-to-Device(D2D)communication technology and other frontier communication technologies have emerged.Device-to-Device communication technology is the technology that devices in proximity can communicate directly in cellular networks.It has become one of the key technologies of the fifth-generation mobile communications system(5G).D2D communication technology which is introduced into cellular networks can effectively improve spectrum utilization,enhance network coverage,reduce transmission delay and improve system throughput,but it would also bring complicated and various interferences due to reusing cellular resources at the same time.So resource management is one of the most challenging and importing issues to give full play to the advantages of D2D communication.Optimal resource allocation is an important factor that needs to be addressed in D2D communication.Therefore,this paper proposes an optimization method based on the game-matching concept.The main idea is to model the optimization problem of the quality-of-experience based on user fairness and solve it through game-matching theory.Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm effectively improved the resource allocation and utilization as compared with existing algorithms.

Secure Resource Allocation in Device-to-Device Communications Underlaying Cellular Networks

With increasing the demand for transmitting secure information in wireless networks,deviceto-device(D2D)communication has great potential to improve system performance.As a well-known security risk is eavesdropping in D2D communication,ensuring information security is quite challenging.In this paper,we first obtain the closed-forms of the secrecy outage probability(SOP)and the secrecy ergodic capacity(SEC)for direct and decodeand-forward(DF)relay modes.Numerical results are presented to verify the theoretical results,and these results show the cases that the DF relay mode improves security performance compared to the direct mode at long distances between the transmitter and receiver nodes.Further,we look into the optimization problems of secure resource allocation in D2D communication to maximize the SEC and to minimize the SOP by considering the strictly positive secrecy capacity constraint as a mixed-integer non-linear programming(MINLP)problem.In the continue,we convert the MINLP to convex optimization.Finally,we solve this program with a dual method and obtain an optimal solution in the direct and DF relay modes.

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.

Resource Allocation and Optimization in Device-to-Device Communication 5G Networks

The next-generation wireless networks are expected to provide higher capacity,system throughput with improved energy efficiency.One of the key technologies,to meet the demand for high-rate transmission,is deviceto-device(D2D)communication which allows users who are close to communicating directly instead of transiting through base stations,and D2D communication users to share the cellular user chain under the control of the cellular network.As a new generation of cellular network technology,D2D communication technology has the advantages of improving spectrum resource utilization and improving system throughput and has become one of the key technologies that have been widely concerned in the industry.However,due to the sharing of cellular network resources,D2D communication causes severe interference to existing cellular systems.One of the most important factors in D2D communication is the spectrum resources utilization and energy consumption which needs considerable attention from research scholars.To address these issues,this paper proposes an efficient algorithm based on the idea of particle swarm optimization.The main idea is to maximize the energy efficiency based on the overall link optimization of D2D user pairs by generating an allocation matrix of spectrum and power.The D2D users are enabled to reuse multiple cellular user’s resources by enhancing their total energy efficiency based on the quality of service constraints and the modification of location and speed in particle swarm.Such constraint also provides feasibility to solve the original fractional programming problem.Simulation results indicate that the proposed scheme effectively improved the energy efficiency and spectrum utilization as compared with other competing alternatives.

Performance of HARQ in 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 for D2D users to avoid the interference from cellular users while cellular users are communication with eNB (evolved Node B). HARQ (Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest) is widely used in LTE-Advanced system in order to improve the accurate rate of cellular communication. Hence, we consider studying the integration of D2D with HARQ, so as to achieve the purpose of improving the throughput of D2D communication and the performance of overall system. Synchronous HARQ is considered to introduce into D2D communication procedures. What’s more, this idea will be taken into system-level simulation. From the simulation results, we can see that the throughput of D2D communication gets a lot of gain and the performance of overall system is improved as well. In addition, Synchronous HARQ technique can significantly decrease the BLER (Block Error Rate) of D2D communication, especially for which in a bad channel condition.

Secure Beamforming Design for SWIPT in Cooperative D2D Communications

In device-to-device(D2D) communications, device terminal relaying makes it possible for devices in a network to function as transmission relays for each other to enhance the spectral efficiency. In this paper we consider a cooperative D2D communication system with simultaneous wireless information and power transfer(SWIPT). The cooperative D2D communication scheme allows two nearby devices to communicate with each other in the licensed cellular bandwidth by assigning D2D transmitters as half-duplex(HD) relay to assists cellular downlink transmissions. In particular, we focus on secure information transmission for the cellular users when the idle D2D users are the potential eavesdroppers. We aim to design secure beamforming schemes to maximize the D2D users data rate while guaranteeing the secrecy rate requirements of the cellular users and the minimum required amounts of power transferred to the idle D2D users. To solve this non-convex problem, a semi-definite programming relaxation(SDR) approach is adopted to obtain the optimal solution. Furthermore, we propose two suboptimal secure beamforming schemes with low computational complexity for providing secure communication and efficient energy transfer. Simulation results demonstrate the superiority of our proposed scheme.

A Combining Call Admission Control and Power Control Scheme for D2D Communications Underlaying Cellular Networks

As device-to-device(D2D) communications usually reuses the resource of cellular networks, call admission control(CAC) and power control are crucial problems. However in most power control schemes, total data rates or throughput are regarded as optimization criterion. In this paper, a combining call admission control(CAC) and power control scheme under guaranteeing QoS of every user equipment(UE) is proposed. First, a simple CAC scheme is introduced. Then based on the CAC scheme, a combining call admission control and power control scheme is proposed. Next, the performance of the proposed scheme is evaluated. Finally, maximum DUE pair number and average transmitting power is calculated. Simulation results show that D2 D communications with the proposed combining call admission control and power control scheme can effectively improve the maximum DUE pair number under the premise of meeting necessary QoS.

Ergodic Rate Analysis on Applying Antenna Selection in D2D Communication Underlaying Cellular Networks

By reusing the spectrum of a cellular network, device-to-device(D2D) communications is known to greatly improve the spectral efficiency bypassing the base station(BS) of the cellular network. Antenna selection is the most cost efficient scheme for interference management, which is crucial to D2D systems. This paper investigates the achievable rate performance of the D2D communication underlaying the cellular network where a multiple-antenna base station with antenna selection scheme is deployed. We derive an exact closed-form expression of the ergodic achievable rate. Also, using Jensen's inequality, two pairs of upper and lower bounds of the rate are derived and we validate the tightness of the two sets of bounds. Based on the bounds obtained, we analyze the ergodic achievable rate in noise-limited scenario, interference-limited high SNR scenario and larger-scale antenna systems. Our analysis shows that the presence of D2D users could be counter-productive if the SNR at cellular UE is high. Further analysis shows that the relationship between the ergodic rate and the number of antennas it positive, but keeps decreasing as the antenna number increasing. These show the inefficiency of antenna selection in D2D interference management.

Security Rate Optimization of D2D Communication Based on Power Control

An optimization of device-to-device(D2D) security rate algorithm based on power control is provided to enhance the physical layer security underlaying D2D communication and guarantee the data rate requirement of the cellular user(CU) at the same time.First,a scenario model is set up,in which an eavesdropper is considered to wiretap the information of D2D transmitters.Then,a secure region of D2D communication is proposed.When D2D communication users reside outside the secure region,the spectrum of CU's is not allowed to share with the D2D communication so as to avoid eavesdropper tapping useful information of D2D communication.When D2D communication users reside inside the secure region,the security rate of D2D is maximized by optimization of the transmitting power of D2D and CU.The simulation results showthat the achieved D2D security rate of the proposed algorithm increases 2.8 bps/Hz when the signal to noise ratio(SNR) is 15 d B,compared with that when the random access algorithm is used.

D2D communication in a cellular network based on link adaptation with truncated ARQ

A device-to-device （D2D） communication mode underlaying cellular network in a single- cell environment is introduced. A practical method based on link adaptation with automatic repeat request （ARQ） is presented. Link adaptation technique, which combines adaptive modulation and coding （ AMC ） with truncated ARQ, can maximize the cellular UEs＇ data rate under prescribed delay and performance constraints. The proposed method can maximize the total transmission rate when an outage probability is determined. Numerical results show that with proper power control, the in- terference between the two links can be coordinated to increase the sum rate without overwhelming the cellular service.

A Joint Resource Allocation Algorithm for D2D Communication

The emergence of multimedia services has meant a substantial increase in the number of devices in mobile networks and driving the demand for higher data transmission rates.The result is that,cellular networks must technically evolve to support such higher rates,to be equipped with greater capacity,and to increase the spectral and energy efficiency.Compared with 4G technology,the 5G networks are being designed to transmit up to 100 times more data volume with devices whose battery life is 10 times longer.Therefore,this new generation of networks has adopted a heterogeneous and ultra-dense architecture,where different technological advances are combined such as device-to-device(D2D)communication,which is one of the key elements of 5G networks.It has immediate applications such as the distribution of traffic load(data offloading),communications for emergency services,and the extension of cellular coverage,etc.In this communication model,two devices can communicate directly if they are close to each other without using a base station or a remote access point.Thus,eliminating the interference between theD2Dand cellular communication in the network.The interference management has become a hot issue in current research.In order to address this problem,this paper proposes a joint resource allocation algorithm based on the idea of mode selection and resource assignment.Simulation results showthat the proposed algorithm effectively improves the systemperformance and reduces the interference as compared with existing algorithms.