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Table of contents
1 Introduction
1.1 Device-to-Device Communications (D2D)
1.2 Advantages and Use Cases of D2D
1.2.1 Public-Safety Use Cases
1.2.2 Locality and Context-Aware Services
1.2.3 Local Content Sharing
1.2.4 Network Range Extension
1.2.5 Traffic (Data) Offloading
1.2.6 IoT and V2X Communications
1.3 D2D Architecture
1.3.1 Spectrum Allocation
1.3.2 3GPP Architecture for D2D (LTE-D2D)
1.3.3 LTE-D2D Protocol Stack for Direct Communications
1.4 D2D Challenges
1.4.1 Peer Discovery
1.4.2 Mode Selection
1.4.3 Resource Allocation and InterferenceManagement
1.4.4 Routing over D2D Links
1.5 Problem Statement
1.6 Contributions
1.7 Thesis Outline
2 RelatedWork
2.1 Literature on Unicast D2D Systems
2.2 Literature onMulticast D2D Systems
2.3 Literature on Other RoutingModels in D2D Systems
2.4 Literature on Energy-Aware D2D Routing
2.5 Comparative Summary and Remarks on Literature
3 Joint Unicast Routing and Wireless Resource Allocation in Multihop LTE-D2D Communications
3.1 Introduction
3.2 SystemModel and Problem Formulation
3.3 Proposal: JRW-D2D
3.4 Performance Evaluation
3.4.1 Network Simulation Environment
3.4.2 Network Simulation Setup
3.4.3 PerformanceMetrics
3.4.4 Simulation Results
3.5 Conclusion
4 A Scalable Joint Routing and Resource Allocation Scheme: D2D-based Unicast andMulticast Data Offloading
4.1 Introduction
4.2 SystemModel and Problem Formulations
4.2.1 Initial Link-Based Formulation
4.2.2 Path-Based Formulation
4.3 Proposal
4.4 Performance Evaluation
4.4.1 General Scenario Parameters
4.4.2 Baselines for Comparison
4.4.3 Collected PerformanceMetrics
4.4.4 Unicast Applications Scenario
4.4.5 Simulation Results in the Unicast Scenario
4.4.6 Multicast Applications Scenario
4.4.7 Simulation Results in theMulticast Scenario
4.5 Conclusion
5 D2D-BasedCellular Traffic Offloading: An Energy-Aware ScalableHeuristic Scheme
5.1 Introduction
5.2 NetworkModel
5.3 Proposals
5.3.1 Exact Resolution Proposal: JRRA-EE
5.3.2 Novel Heuristic-Based Proposal: HERRA
5.4 Performance Evaluation
5.4.1 General Scenario Parameters
5.4.2 Simulated Traffic Parameters
5.4.3 PerformanceMetrics
5.4.4 Simulation Results
5.5 Conclusion
6 Conclusion
6.1 Summary of Contributions
6.2 FutureWork and Perspectives
6.3 Publications
