A Survey on Device-to-Device Communication in Cellular Networks
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- 24 April 2014
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
- Vol. 16 (4), 1801-1819
- https://doi.org/10.1109/comst.2014.2319555
Abstract
Device-to-device (D2D) communications was initially proposed in cellular networks as a new paradigm for enhancing network performance. The emergence of new applications such as content distribution and location-aware advertisement introduced new user cases for D2D communications in cellular networks. The initial studies showed that D2D communications has advantages such as increased spectral efficiency and reduced communication delay. However, this communication mode introduces complications in terms of interference control overhead and protocols that are still open research problems. The feasibility of D2D communications in Long-Term Evolution Advanced is being studied by academia, industry, and standardization bodies. To date, there are more than 100 papers available on D2D communications in cellular networks, but there is no survey on this field. In this paper, we provide a taxonomy based on the D2D communicating spectrum and review the available literature extensively under the proposed taxonomy. Moreover, we provide new insights into the over-explored and under-explored areas that lead us to identify open research problems of D2D communications in cellular networks.Keywords
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Funding Information
- European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (318115 (CROWD))
- Comunidad de Madrid MEDIANET Project (S2009/TIC-1468)
- MICINN (TEC2011-29688-C02-01)
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