Performance Optimization for D2D Communications with Opportunistic Relay and Physical-Layer Network Coding

Shijun Lin*, Yong Li, Haichuan Ding, Yuguang Fang, Jianghong Shi

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Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the joint signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) thresholds optimization and resource allocation to maximize the sum-rate of Device-to-Device (D2D) communications while still retaining the rate requirements for active cellular users (CUs), when the inactive CUs are used as opportunistic relays under three operational modes: without using network-coding (NNC), using traditional high-layer network-coding (HNC), and using physical-layer network-coding (PNC). Under Rayleigh fading, we show that, given the selections of relays, this sum-rate maximization in no-relay scheme, NNC, HNC, and PNC opportunistic relay schemes can be formulated as a mixed integer non-linear programming (MINLP), which is NP-hard in general. To find the solution to the MINLP, we propose a two-step approach to solve the problem: 1) for each possible pairing of a D2D pair and a CU, we derive the optimal SINR thresholds to obtain the maximum transmission rate of the D2D pair while satisfying the rate requirement of the CU; 2) based on the maximum transmission rates of D2D pairs for each possible pairing in the first step, we develop a bipartite-matching method to find the optimal pairing CUs for D2D pairs. Finally, according to the solution to the MINLP, we propose an iterative relay selection algorithm to find out the relays that can further improve the sum-rate of D2D communications. Extensive simulation results demonstrate that, compared with the scenario without relaying, the NNC, HNC, and PNC opportunistic relay schemes achieve a maximum performance enhancement of 106%, 138%, and 168%, respectively.

Original languageEnglish
Article number8867961
Pages (from-to)11928-11943
Number of pages16
JournalIEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
Volume68
Issue number12
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2019
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Device-to-device communication
  • Rayleigh fading channel
  • opportunistic relay
  • physical-layer network coding

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Lin, S., Li, Y., Ding, H., Fang, Y., & Shi, J. (2019). Performance Optimization for D2D Communications with Opportunistic Relay and Physical-Layer Network Coding. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 68(12), 11928-11943. Article 8867961. https://doi.org/10.1109/TVT.2019.2947021