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Network-Assisted Device-to-Device (D2D) Direct Proximity Discovery with Underlay Communication
Device-to-Device communications are expected to play an important role in
current and future cellular generations, by increasing the spatial reuse of
spectrum resources and enabling lower latency communication links. This
paradigm has two fundamental building blocks: (i) proximity discovery and (ii)
direct communication between proximate devices. While (ii) is treated
extensively in the recent literature, (i) has received relatively little
attention. In this paper we analyze a network-assisted underlay proximity
discovery protocol, where a cellular device can take the role of: announcer
(which announces its interest in establishing a D2D connection) or monitor
(which listens for the transmissions from the announcers). Traditionally, the
announcers transmit their messages over dedicated channel resources. In
contrast, inspired by recent advances on receivers with multiuser decoding
capabilities, we consider the case where the announcers underlay their messages
in the downlink transmissions that are directed towards the monitoring devices.
We propose a power control scheme applied to the downlink transmission, which
copes with the underlay transmission via additional power expenditure, while
guaranteeing both reliable downlink transmissions and underlay proximity
discovery.Comment: Accepted for presentation at Globecom 201
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
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