Rana Zeeshan Ahamad¹, Abdul Rehman Javed^2,*, Shakir Mehmood³, Mohammad Zubair Khan⁴, Abdulfattah Noorwali⁵, Muhammad Rizwan⁶

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.1, pp. 45-58, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.016082

Abstract Device to Device (D2D) communication is emerging as a new participant promising technology in 5G cellular networks to promote green energy networks. D2D communication can improve communication delays, spectral efficiency, system capacity, data off-loading, and many other fruitful scenarios where D2D can be implemented. Nevertheless, induction of D2D communication in reuse mode with the conventional cellular network can cause severe interference issues, which can significantly degrade network performance. To reap all the benefits of induction of D2D communication with conventional cellular communication, it is imperative to minimize interference’s detrimental effects. Efficient power control can minimize the negative effects of interference… More >

Nasreen Anjum^1,*, Zhaohui Yang¹, Imran Khan², Mahreen Kiran³, Falin Wu⁴, Khaled Rabie⁵, Shikh Muhammad Bahaei¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.67, No.2, pp. 1759-1780, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.014635

Abstract In this paper, we propose a two-tiered segment-based Device-to-Device (S-D2D) caching approach to decrease the startup and playback delay experienced by Video-on-Demand (VoD) users in a cellular network. In the S-D2D caching approach cache space of each mobile device is divided into two cache-blocks. The first cache-block reserve for caching and delivering the beginning portion of the most popular video files and the second cache-block caches the latter portion of the requested video files ‘fully or partially’ depending on the users’ video watching behaviour and popularity of videos. In this approach before caching, video is divided and grouped in a… More >

Azka Amin¹, Xihua Liu², Imran Khan³, Peerapong Uthansakul^{4, *}, Masoud Forsat⁵, Seyed Sajad Mirjavadi⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.65, No.2, pp. 1487-1505, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.011749

Abstract 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… More >

Yifei Wei^{1, *}, Yinxiang Qu¹, Min Zhao¹, Lianping Zhang², F. Richard Yu³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.63, No.3, pp. 1515-1532, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.09130

Abstract 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,… More >

Yueping Wang^1,*, Xuan Zhang², Yixuan Zhang³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.61, No.1, pp. 171-184, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.06204

Abstract Full-duplex (FD) has been recognized as a promising technology for future 5G networks to improve the spectrum efficiency. However, the biggest practical impediments of realizing full-duplex communications are the presence of self-interference, especially in complex cellular networks. With the current development of self-interference cancellation techniques, full-duplex has been considered to be more suitable for device-to-device (D2D) and small cell communications which have small transmission range and low transmit power. In this paper, we consider the full-duplex D2D communications in multi-tier wireless networks and present an analytical model which jointly considers mode selection, resource allocation, and power control. Specifically, we consider… More >

Shanshan Yu¹, Ju Liu^1,*, Xiaoqing Zhang¹, Shangbin Wu²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.58, No.2, pp. 505-516, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.04282

Abstract Relay-assisted transmission could effectively enhance the performance of Device-to-Device (D2D) communications when D2D user equipments (UEs) are too far away from each other or the quality of D2D channel is not good enough for direct communications. Meanwhile, security is one of the major concerns for proximity services. The secure relay selection problem for D2D communications underlaying cellular network is studied in this paper. Firstly, we define a relay selection area and derive the closed-form of outage probability in D2D links using a Poisson Point Process (PPP) method. Next, in the defined relay selection area, we propose a secure relay selection… More >