IEEE Access (Jan 2016)

Joint Downlink and Uplink Interference Management for Device to Device Communication Underlaying Cellular Networks

  • Thong Huynh,
  • Tomoyuki Onuma,
  • Kaori Kuroda,
  • Mikio Hasegawa,
  • Won-Joo Hwang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2016.2603149
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4
pp. 4420 – 4430

Abstract

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Interference management is one of the most critical issues in underlaying device-to-device (D2D) communication due to the coexistence of D2D pairs and cellular users that operate under the same spectrum. In this paper, we provide the interference management algorithm to maximize the performance of the D2D communication while satisfying the quality-of-service requirements of the cellular communications in both uplink and downlink phases. The proposed algorithm includes: 1) the admission control and power allocation to ensure that the interference from D2D communication does not affect to the cellular communications and 2) the shared channel assignment to maximize the total throughput of the D2D communication. We prove that our proposed algorithm can achieve at least half of the performance of optimal algorithm. The simulation results validate the feasibility, convergence, and optimality of our algorithm: it cannot only closely approximate the optimal throughput of D2D communication but also outperform existing algorithms.

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