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Separation Framework: An Enabler for Cooperative and D2D Communication for Future 5G Networks
Soaring capacity and coverage demands dictate that future cellular networks
need to soon migrate towards ultra-dense networks. However, network
densification comes with a host of challenges that include compromised energy
efficiency, complex interference management, cumbersome mobility management,
burdensome signaling overheads and higher backhaul costs. Interestingly, most
of the problems, that beleaguer network densification, stem from legacy
networks' one common feature i.e., tight coupling between the control and data
planes regardless of their degree of heterogeneity and cell density.
Consequently, in wake of 5G, control and data planes separation architecture
(SARC) has recently been conceived as a promising paradigm that has potential
to address most of aforementioned challenges. In this article, we review
various proposals that have been presented in literature so far to enable SARC.
More specifically, we analyze how and to what degree various SARC proposals
address the four main challenges in network densification namely: energy
efficiency, system level capacity maximization, interference management and
mobility management. We then focus on two salient features of future cellular
networks that have not yet been adapted in legacy networks at wide scale and
thus remain a hallmark of 5G, i.e., coordinated multipoint (CoMP), and
device-to-device (D2D) communications. After providing necessary background on
CoMP and D2D, we analyze how SARC can particularly act as a major enabler for
CoMP and D2D in context of 5G. This article thus serves as both a tutorial as
well as an up to date survey on SARC, CoMP and D2D. Most importantly, the
article provides an extensive outlook of challenges and opportunities that lie
at the crossroads of these three mutually entangled emerging technologies.Comment: 28 pages, 11 figures, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials 201
Game-theoretic Resource Allocation Methods for Device-to-Device (D2D) Communication
Device-to-device (D2D) communication underlaying cellular networks allows
mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets to use the licensed spectrum
allocated to cellular services for direct peer-to-peer transmission. D2D
communication can use either one-hop transmission (i.e., in D2D direct
communication) or multi-hop cluster-based transmission (i.e., in D2D local area
networks). The D2D devices can compete or cooperate with each other to reuse
the radio resources in D2D networks. Therefore, resource allocation and access
for D2D communication can be treated as games. The theories behind these games
provide a variety of mathematical tools to effectively model and analyze the
individual or group behaviors of D2D users. In addition, game models can
provide distributed solutions to the resource allocation problems for D2D
communication. The aim of this article is to demonstrate the applications of
game-theoretic models to study the radio resource allocation issues in D2D
communication. The article also outlines several key open research directions.Comment: Accepted. IEEE Wireless Comms Mag. 201
Mode Selection for 5G Heterogeneous and Opportunistic Networks
5G and beyond networks will offer multiple communication modes including device-to-device
and multi-hop cellular (or UE-to-network relay) communications. Several studies have shown that these
modes can signi_cantly improve the Quality of Service (QoS), the spectrum and energy ef_ciency, and the
network capacity. Recent studies have demonstrated that further gains can be achieved when integrating
demand-driven opportunistic networking into Multi-Hop Cellular Networks (MCN). In opportunistic MCN
connections, devices can exploit the delay tolerance of many mobile data services to search for the most
ef_cient connections between nodes. The availability of multiple communication modes requires mode
selection schemes capable to decide the optimum mode for each transmission. Mode selection schemes
have been previously proposed to account for the introduction of D2D and MCN. However, existing mode
selection schemes cannot integrate opportunistic MCN connections into the selection process. This paper
advances the state of the art by proposing the _rst mode selection scheme capable to integrate opportunistic
MCN communications within 5G and beyond networks. The conducted analysis demonstrates the potential
of opportunistic MCN communications, and the capability of the proposed mode selection scheme to select
the most adequate communication mode.This work was supported in part by the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry, and Competitiveness, AEI, and FEDER funds under Grant
TEC2017-88612-RGrant TEC2014-57146-Rand in part by the Generalitat Valenciana under Grant GV/2016/049
Resource Allocation for Device-to-Device Communications in Multi-Cell Multi-Band Heterogeneous Cellular Networks
Heterogeneous cellular networks (HCNs) with millimeter wave (mm-wave)
communications are considered as a promising technology for the fifth
generation mobile networks. Mm-wave has the potential to provide multiple
gigabit data rate due to the broad spectrum. Unfortunately, additional free
space path loss is also caused by the high carrier frequency. On the other
hand, mm-wave signals are sensitive to obstacles and more vulnerable to
blocking effects. To address this issue, highly directional narrow beams are
utilized in mm-wave networks. Additionally, device-to-device (D2D) users make
full use of their proximity and share uplink spectrum resources in HCNs to
increase the spectrum efficiency and network capacity. Towards the caused
complex interferences, the combination of D2D-enabled HCNs with small cells
densely deployed and mm-wave communications poses a big challenge to the
resource allocation problems. In this paper, we formulate the optimization
problem of D2D communication spectrum resource allocation among multiple
micro-wave bands and multiple mm-wave bands in HCNs. Then, considering the
totally different propagation conditions on the two bands, a heuristic
algorithm is proposed to maximize the system transmission rate and approximate
the solutions with sufficient accuracies. Compared with other practical
schemes, we carry out extensive simulations with different system parameters,
and demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed scheme. In addition,
the optimality and complexity are simulated to further verify effectiveness and
efficiency.Comment: 13 pages, 11 figures, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technolog
On Capacity and Delay of Multi-channel Wireless Networks with Infrastructure Support
In this paper, we propose a novel multi-channel network with infrastructure
support, called an MC-IS network, which has not been studied in the literature.
To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to study such an MC-IS network.
Our proposed MC-IS network has a number of advantages over three existing
conventional networks, namely a single-channel wireless ad hoc network (called
an SC-AH network), a multi-channel wireless ad hoc network (called an MC-AH
network) and a single-channel network with infrastructure support (called an
SC-IS network). In particular, the network capacity of our proposed MC-IS
network is times higher than that of an SC-AH network and an
MC-AH network and the same as that of an SC-IS network, where is the number
of nodes in the network. The average delay of our MC-IS network is times lower than that of an SC-AH network and an MC-AH network, and
times lower than the average delay of an SC-IS network, where
and denote the number of channels dedicated for infrastructure
communications and the number of interfaces mounted at each infrastructure
node, respectively. Our analysis on an MC-IS network equipped with
omni-directional antennas only has been extended to an MC-IS network equipped
with directional antennas only, which are named as an MC-IS-DA network. We show
that an MC-IS-DA network has an even lower delay of compared with an SC-IS network and our
MC-IS network. For example, when and , an
MC-IS-DA network can further reduce the delay by 24 times lower that of an
MC-IS network and reduce the delay by 288 times lower than that of an SC-IS
network.Comment: accepted, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 201
Performance Analysis of Network-Assisted Two-Hop D2D Communications
Network-assisted single-hop device-to-device (D2D) communication can increase
the spectral and energy efficiency of cellular networks by taking advantage of
the proximity, reuse, and hop gains when radio resources are properly managed
between the cellular and D2D layers. In this paper we argue that D2D technology
can be used to further increase the spectral and energy efficiency if the key
D2D radio resource management algorithms are suitably extended to support
network assisted multi-hop D2D communications. Specifically, we propose a
novel, distributed utility maximizing D2D power control (PC) scheme that is
able to balance spectral and energy efficiency while taking into account mode
selection and resource allocation constraints that are important in the
integrated cellular-D2D environment. Our analysis and numerical results
indicate that multi-hop D2D communications combined with the proposed PC scheme
can be useful not only for harvesting the potential gains previously identified
in the literature, but also for extending the coverage of cellular networks.Comment: 6 pages and 7 figure
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