Title
Optimal Mobile Association In Device-To-Device-Enabled Heterogeneous Networks
Abstract
With device-to-device (D2D) communications, a user terminal (UT) can naturally be used as a relay node (RN) and thus inherently support multi-hop transmission. Thus, cell-edge or deeply faded users can obtain a more uniform connectivity experience. In this paper, we investigate mobile association for the UT with the capability of D2D communications in heterogeneous networks (HetNets). We will develop a framework on joint mobile association and transmission mode switching between the direct and the D2D relay modes to improve the system spectrum efficiency (SE) and energy efficiency (EE). We first formulate the optimization problems, and then obtain closed-form solutions. Simulation results show that with the proposed schemes, both SE and EE of the network can be significantly improved compared to the traditional solutions without D2D communications. We also discuss the tradeoff between the minimum rate requirement and EE of a network.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2015
2015 IEEE 82ND VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE (VTC FALL)
Device-to-Device communication (D2D), mobile association, mode switching
Field
DocType
Citations 
Mobile computing,Computer science,Efficient energy use,Computer network,Spectral efficiency,Heterogeneous network,Optimization problem,Relay,Mobile telephony,Telecommunications link
Conference
6
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.42
8
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sa Xiao1219.05
Daquan Feng299444.97
Yi Yuan-wu345630.09
Geoffrey Ye Li49071660.27
Wei Guo5442146.38
Shaoqian Li62276195.05