Wireless Internet. 7th International ICST Conference, WICON 2013, Shanghai, China, April 11-12, 2013, Revised Selected Papers

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A Cluster Head Assisted UE Switching Solution for Device-to-Device Communications

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-41773-3_13,
        author={Jinling Du and Bin Zhou and Jing Xu and Zhenhong Li and Haifeng Wang and Ligang Liu},
        title={A Cluster Head Assisted UE Switching Solution for Device-to-Device Communications},
        proceedings={Wireless Internet. 7th International ICST Conference, WICON 2013, Shanghai, China, April 11-12, 2013, Revised Selected Papers},
        proceedings_a={WICON},
        year={2013},
        month={10},
        keywords={Device-to-Device/D2D cluster head switching hybrid mode semi-distributed controlled},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-642-41773-3_13}
    }
    
  • Jinling Du
    Bin Zhou
    Jing Xu
    Zhenhong Li
    Haifeng Wang
    Ligang Liu
    Year: 2013
    A Cluster Head Assisted UE Switching Solution for Device-to-Device Communications
    WICON
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-41773-3_13
Jinling Du1,*, Bin Zhou,*, Jing Xu,*, Zhenhong Li2,*, Haifeng Wang2,*, Ligang Liu1,*
  • 1: Shanghai Research Center for Wireless Communications
  • 2: Wireless modem R&D Renesas Mobile Corp
*Contact email: jinling.du@shrcwc.org, bin.zhou@shrcwc.org, jing.xu@shrcwc.org, zhenhong.li@renesasmobile.com, haifeng.wang@renesasmobile.com, ligang.liu@shrcwc.org

Abstract

Device-to-Device (D2D) cluster communication underlaying cellular networks has been proposed as a means of increasing the resource utilization, and improving the spectral efficiency. However, when D2D links cannot satisfy the connection requirements, in order to keep the connection, D2D communication has to switch back to cellular communication. Consider that the previous switching methods mainly concentrated on the network centralized controlled D2D communications, so we propose a novel switching solution aided by a cluster head for (semi-) distributed controlled D2D communications. We propose the switched D2D user itself search and access the target base station. The cluster head determines transmission mode based on the channel state information after switching. The numerical simulation demonstrates the hybrid mode outperforms the D2D mode in some conditions.