Advances in Device-to-Device Communications and Networks

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Advances in Device-to-Device Communications and

Networks

Lingyang Song, Mérouane Debbah, Rong Yu, Frank Yong Li, Jianzhong

Charlie Zhang

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Lingyang Song, Mérouane Debbah, Rong Yu, Frank Yong Li, Jianzhong Charlie Zhang. Advances in Device-to-Device Communications and Networks. IET Communications, Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2015. �hal-01341111�

Guest Editorial

Advances in Device-to-Device Communications and Networks

Lingyang Song1, Mérouane Debbah 2, Rong Yu3, Frank Y. Li4,and Jianzhong Charlie Zhang 5 1

School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, China.Email:

lingyang.song@pku.edu.cn

2

Supelec, Gif-sur-Yvette, France. Email: merouane.debbah@supelec.fr

3

School of Automation, Guangdong University of Technology, China. Email:

rongyu@ieee.org

4

Department of Information and Communication Technology, University of Agder, Norway. Email: frank.li@uia.no

5_{Samsung Research America Dallas U.S.A. Email: jianzhong. z@samsung. com}

1. Introduction

Welcome to the special issue of IET Communications on device-to-device (D2D) communications. As more and more new mobile multimedia rich services are becoming available to larger audiences, there is an ever increasing demand for higher data rate wireless access. Wireless D2D communication is a promising technology to improve user experience and optimise resource utilisation in cellular networks. These benefits are achieved by enabling two or more mobile devices in the proximity of each other to establish a direct local link bypassing the base station or the access point.

Significant progress has been made since the introduction of this technology a few years ago. On the other hand, many research challenges still exist for such a new wireless communication paradigm, for example, how to share resources dynamically (e.g. spectrum and energy) between cellular communication and ad hoc D2D communication to accommodate larger volumes of traffic, how to ensure Quality of Service (QoS) to end users, etc. Other challenges include: discovery of services for D2D communication; radio resource allocation and resource management; self-organization of direct links; proximity-based offloading, and capacity enhancement as well as performance evaluation.

The future D2D networks cannot operate efficiently unless these and other relevant challenges are properly addressed. The purpose of this special issue is to address research advances that enable D2D communication in cellular networks, and to report on the state-of-the-art contributions in this area. We are grateful to the overwhelming interest and support from the community, as we received a large body of excellent

contributions. Out of the twenty-eight submissions to this special issue, we have selected nine outstanding papers that we believe represent the state-of-art in the device to device communication area. The papers are organised into three groups: two papers on channel coding and signal processing algorithms, seven papers on resource management and scheduling, and five papers on new services and applications.

2. Channel coding and signal processing algorithms

The first group addresses channel coding and signal processing algorithms for the physical layer. The first of these two papers, written by Xiang et al., presents an overview of the state-of-the-art D2D communication on channel measurements and modeling. The future trends and research directions are also comprehensively discussed. The work in this paper will facilitate system design and optimisation in channel-oriented D2D communication. The second paper, by Zhang et al., presents a sub-block tracking based equalization technique for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) based D2D communications in high mobility environments. By partitioning an OFDM block into several sub-blocks and rendering that the channel response of each sub-block is time-invariant, one can equalise the partitioned sub-block by a single tap. Both theoretical analysis and simulation results demonstrate that the merits of the proposed scheme in high mobility D2D environments.

3. Resource management and scheduling

The second group mainly investigates multiple access control (MAC) and network layer resource allocation and scheduling issues. The first paper in this group, written by Dai et al., studies the spectrum sharing problems in heterogeneous D2D networks where different D2D users coexist with the cellular users. A scheme called spectrum partition based D2D transmission is proposed to improve the spectrum efficiency of the D2D and cellular networks. Simulation results are reported to show evident performance gains of the proposed scheme. The second paper, written by Wang et al., exploits historical social interaction information of mobile users for a D2D link setup and resource allocation. It develops a contact time model to characterise the D2D links such that only those D2D links with sufficiently long contact time may be considered for a D2D link setup and resource allocation. This work demonstrates that sociality-aware allocation, compared to sociality-unaware schemes, can achieve better performance. The third paper, by Zheng et al., studies dynamic resource allocation for D2D communication. The authors propose a service time prediction based dynamic resource allocation mechanism. The simulation results show that the proposed mechanism can significantly improve the system performance.

The paper, by Kang et al., focuses on link scheduling in D2D networks. The authors propose distributed link scheduling schemes based on a recently proposed D2D communication technology, FlashLinQ. To deal with the inefficiency of resource reuse in FlashLinQ, two new link scheduling schemes based on binary matrix on-off interference

map are designed. The performance enhancement over conventional schemes is demonstrated through simulations. Another paper, by Zhou et al., considers the network-controlled D2D multicast with network coding. It proposes a user-specific bit mapping algorithm to make different information with a different equivalent coding rate before performing network-coded. A corresponding user-specific link adaptation scheme is proposed to adaptively choose an optimal modulation and coding scheme for D2D multicast. Numerical results show that the user-specific link adaptation scheme can improve the capacity performance of network controlled D2D multicast. The sixth paper of this group, by Zhou et al., considers the Spectral Efficiency (SE) and the Energy Efficiency (EE) problems in D2D networks. The target is to maximize each User Equipment's EE in an interference-limited environment subject to its specific QoS and maximum transmission power constraints (i.e., EE). The problem is formulated and solved within the framework of non-cooperative game. The tradeoff between EE and SE is analysed and closed-form expressions are also derived. The seventh paper, written by Chen et al., concentrates on user-centric relay assisted D2D communications. A Vickrey-Clarke-Groves auction based relay allocation mechanism (ARM) is proposed. The work is also extended to a general case and a general ARM. Extensive simulation results show the efficiency and effectiveness of the proposed mechanisms.

4. New services and applications

The third group explores new services and applications of D2D communication. The first paper, written by Chu et al., investigates robust secrecy rate optimisation for multiple input and single output (MISO) secrecy channel with multiple D2D communications. Two robust secrecy rate optimisation problems, one for robust power minimisation and the other for robust secrecy rate maximization are discussed. Simulation results are provided to validate the performance gains. The second paper, by Li et al., proposes a new model for analysing the multi-hop delay of safety-related message broadcasting in V2V communications, taking into account actual traffic factors. A new scheme is proposed to reduce multi-hop delay by tracking the optimal one-hop transmission range and it was validated by simulations using realistic vehicular traces. The third paper, by Sun et al., reviews the standardisation progress of D2D in 3GPP Release 12. Three scenarios, in-coverage, partial-coverage and out-of-coverage, are defined. For these scenarios, channel models are obtained by an amendment to existing channel models. Centralised, distributed and hybrid synchronisation procedures are introduced. The design aspects of D2D discovery and communication are discussed in detail. Possible future work toward post releases is also briefly outlined. The fourth paper, by Xi et al., proposes an efficient hybrid data collection scheme for the machine nodes in hierarchical smart building networks. These concerned nodes can form clusters via distributed methods. The corresponding resource allocation scheme can be realised easily. This cooperative scheme can reduce the signaling overhead and meanwhile enhance the delay or security performance. The last paper, written by Kwak et al., designs a service-oriented networking platform to offer dynamic networking services in supporting mobile group communications among connected smart devices. The

proposed platform adopts a session initiation protocol (SIP) protocol as the service signaling protocol that provides high extensibility and compatibility. Also, the quality of end-to-end service is guaranteed by a virtue smart delivery scheme in the platform.

5. Summary

In summary, this special issue offers a comprehensive review of recent advances in the area of wireless D2D communication and networks, exposes and addresses the research challenges in physical, MAC as well as application layers. The special issue will serve as a good reference for the academic community for future research ideas, and in the meantime provide valuable concepts and directions for future standardisation and commercialisation in the industry.

6. Acknowledgement

Finally, we would like to thank all the authors who have submitted their papers for consideration for publication in this issue. We are grateful to the anonymous reviewers who spent much of their precious time in reviewing all the submissions. Their timely reviews and comments greatly helped us select the best papers for inclusion in this special issue. We would also like to thank the devoted staff of IET Communications for their professional support, and particularly express our gratitude to the Editor-in-Chief, Professor Sherman Shen, for his advice, patience, and encouragement from the beginning until the final stage.

Guest Editors

Lingyang Song, Mérouane Debbah, Rong Yu, Frank Y. Li and Jianzhong Charlie Zhang

Lingyang Song received his PhD from the University of York, UK, in 2007, where he received the K. M. Stott Prize for excellent research. He worked as a research fellow at the University of Oslo, Norway, and Harvard University, until rejoining Philips Research UK in March 2008. In May 2009, he joined the School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, China, as a full professor. His main research interests include MIMO, cognitive and cooperative communications, physical layer security, and wireless ad hoc/sensor networks. He published extensively and wrote 3 text books. He is the recipient of 2012 IEEE Asia Pacific (AP) Young Researcher Award, and received 7 best paper awards including IEEE WCNC, ICC and Globecom. He is currently on the Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, China Communications, and Journal of Network and Computer Applications. He is a senior member of IEEE, and an IEEE ComSoc distinguished lecturer since 2015.

Mérouane Debbah entered the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan (France) in 1996 where he received his M.Sc and Ph.D. degrees respectively. He worked for Motorola Labs (Saclay, France) from 1999-2002 and the Vienna Research Center for Telecommunications (Vienna, Austria) until 2003. From 2003 to 2007, he joined the Mobile Communications department of the Institut Eurecom (Sophia Antipolis, France) as an Assistant Professor. Since 2007, he is a Full Professor at Supelec (Gif-sur-Yvette, France). From 2007 to 2014, he was director of the Alcatel-Lucent Chair on Flexible Radio. Since 2014, he is Vice-President of the Huawei France R&D center and director of the Mathematical and Algorithmic Sciences Lab. His research interests are in information theory, signal processing and wireless communications. He is an Associate Editor in Chief of the journal Random Matrix: Theory and Applications and was an associate and senior area editor for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing respectively in 2011-2013 and 2013-2014. Mérouane Debbah is a recipient of the ERC grant MORE (Advanced Mathematical Tools for Complex Network Engineering). He is a IEEE Fellow, a WWRF Fellow and a member of the academic senate of Paris-Saclay. He is the recipient of the Mario Boella award in 2005, the 2007 IEEE GLOBECOM best paper award, the Wi-Opt 2009 best paper award, the 2010 Newcom++ best paper award, the WUN CogCom Best Paper 2012 and 2013 Award, the 2014 WCNC best paper award as well as the Valuetools 2007, Valuetools 2008, CrownCom2009 , Valuetools 2012 and SAM 2014 best student paper awards. In 2011, he received the IEEE Glavieux Prize Award and in 2012, the Qualcomm Innovation Prize Award.

Rong Yu received his Ph.D. degree from Tsinghua University, China,

in 2007. After that, he worked in the School of Electronic and Information Engineering of South China University of Technology (SCUT). In 2010, he joined the Institute of Intelligent Information Processing at Guangdong University of Technology (GDUT), where he is now a full professor. His research interest mainly focuses on wireless communications and mobile computing. Dr. Yu is currently serving as the deputy secretary general of the Internet of Things (IoT) Industry Alliance, Guangdong, China, and the deputy head of the IoT Engineering Center, Guangdong, China.

Frank Y. Li holds a Ph.D. degree from the Norwegian University of

Science and Technology (NTNU). He worked as a Senior Researcher at UniK - University Graduate Center, University of Oslo before joining the Department of Information and Communication Technology, University of Agder (UiA) in August 2007 where he is

currently a Professor. Dr. Li’s research interests include MAC mechanisms and routing protocols in 4G and beyond mobile systems and wireless networks, mesh and ad hoc networks; wireless sensor network; D2D communication; cooperative communication; cognitive radio networks; green wireless communications; QoS, resource management and traffic engineering in wired and wireless IP-based networks; analysis, simulation and performance evaluation of communication protocols and networks.

Jianzhong (Charlie) Zhang: Charlie Zhang is currently senior

director and head of Wireless Communications Lab with Samsung Research America at Dallas, where he leads technology development, prototyping and standardization for Beyond 4G and 5G wireless systems. From Aug 2009 to Aug 2013, he served as the Vice Chairman of the 3GPP RAN1 working group and led development of LTE and LTE-Advanced technologies such as 3D channel modeling, UL-MIMO and CoMP, Carrier Aggregation for TD-LTE, etc. Before joining Samsung, he was with Motorola from 2006 to 2007 working on 3GPP HSPA standards, and with Nokia Research Center from 2001 to 2006 working on IEEE 802.16e (WiMAX) standard and EDGE/CDMA receiver algorithms. He received his Ph.D. degree from University of Wisconsin, Madison.