D2D Communications for 5G and Beyond
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Microwave and Wireless Communications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 5213
Special Issue Editors
Interests: wireless communications; information theory; resource allocation; distributed optimization
Interests: IoT; wireless and mobile networks; network and system security
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Device-to-device (D2D) communications operating within cellular networks are among the enabling technologies for 5G systems and many of their applications. Their advantages include enhanced spectral efficiency, better resource utilization, reduced power consumption, and decentralized control. In parallel, the expected widespread deployment of sensing devices in infrastructures, smart cities, vehicle-to-everything, and other cyberphysical systems in the coming years arises as one of the areas where D2D is likely to play a role in reducing the latency of communications and enabling massive machine-type communications or the realization of tactile Internet. Intelligent interference coordination and resource allocation are the main challenges in D2D, related to coexistence with traditional cellular wireless and other communication networks. However, the emergence of novel network architectures (e.g., cell-less) and innovative techniques for adapting the wireless medium demand new approaches for embedding D2D into these emerging wireless connectivity environments. In order to cope with this diversity of use cases and requirements, devices in a D2D system will have to apply novel and advanced solutions to dynamically monitor the medium and the network state, while efficiently using the available resources at any moment, either for spectrum reuse, mitigation of interference, caching information, multiple access, selection of its peer device(s), or switching its communication mode.
This Special Issue solicits the submission of high-quality and unpublished papers from academia and industry that aim to solve open technical problems or challenges in the context of D2D communications for cellular 5G+ networks and for cell-less architectures. Original and innovative contributions on all aspects, both theoretical and experimental, are welcomed.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Dynamic spectrum and cognitive techniques for D2D communication;
- Software-defined networks (SDN) and software-defined radio (SDR) for D2D communications;
- Orthogonal and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) for D2D;
- D2D communications for mMTC and URLLC;
- Performance evaluation of D2D communications;
- Energy efficiency, interference and power control;
- Cache-aided protocols and policies for D2D systems;
- Multicast D2D (MD2D);
- Relay-assisted D2D and MD2D;
- Security and privacy issues in D2D;
- Integrated D2D communication techniques for 5G networks;
- D2D and MD2D for vehicular communications and vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications;
- Deep and reinforcement learning for D2D;
- D2D testbeds, prototypes, and implementations;
- D2D and fog/edge network architectures.
Dr. Manuel Fernández-Veiga
Dr. Pedro Pinto
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Device-to-device communications
- Interference coordination
- Resource allocation
- Vehicle-to-anything (V2X)
- Infrastructure-less networks
