vocabulary
| terminology | meaning |
|---|---|
| cellular networks | 蜂窩網(wǎng)絡(luò) |
| bandwidth | 帶寬 |
| base station | 基站 |
| two-tier | 兩層 |
| macrocell tier | 宏層（基站到設(shè)備的通訊） |
| device tier | 設(shè)備層（設(shè)備到設(shè)備的通訊） |
| BS-to-device | 基站到設(shè)備 |
| device terminal relay | 設(shè)備中繼傳遞 |
| massive ad hoc mesh | 大型無線自組網(wǎng) |
| mobile broadband | 移動寬帶 |
| closed access | 閉路訪問 |
| open access | 開路訪問 |
Abstract
- Conventional cellular system
devices are not allowed to directly communicate with each other in the licensed cellular bandwidth and all communications take place through the base stations. - New
a two-tier cellular network involves a macrocell tier and a device tier to realize a massive ad hoc mesh network - Device terminal relaying makes it possible for devices in a network to function as transmission relays for each other and realize a massive ad hoc mesh network.
Challenges
- security of the user data must be maintained for privacy
- the two-tier network needs to be designed to ensure minimal impact on the performance of existing macrocell BSs. Attention to the management strategies and resource allocation schemes.
- pricing models should be designed to tempt devices to participate in.
Introduction
Growing demand for higher data rates and capacity
With the introduction of a myriad of smart handheld devices, user demands for mobile broad-band are undergoing an unprecedented rise. The drastic growth of bandwidth-hungry applications such as video streaming and multimedia file
sharing are already pushing the limits of current cellular systems. In the next decade, envisioned media-rich mobile applications such as tele-presence and 3D holography will require data rates simply not possible with fourth generation (4G)
networks.
Cooperative communications has such promise
Advantage of D2D communication
- the number of context-aware services and applications is growing rapidly. These applications require location discovery and communication with neighboring
devices, and the availability of such a functionality would reduce the cost of communication among devices. - play a vital role in mobile cloud computing and facilitate effective sharing of resources (spectrum, computational power, applications, social contents, etc.) for users who are spatially close to each other.
- Service providers can further take advantage of D2D functionality to take some
load off of the network in a local area such as a stadium or a big mall by allowing direct transmission among cell phones and other devices - D2D communication can be of critical use in natural disasters.
WiFi or Bluetooth have problem in the interference and QoS
In the current market, technologies such as WiFi or Bluetooth provide some D2D communication functionality. However, these work in unlicensed band, and the interference is uncontrollable. In addition, they cannot provide security and quality of service (QoS) guarantee as do cellular networks.
Main topic
- Some major challenges
- Discuss security, interference management, and resource allocation issues, and point out some directions for future research.
- Focus on pricing, and propose some pricing schemes tempting for both users and operators.
D2D Communicationg types and main technical challenges
- The macrocell tier communications as in a conventional cellular system.
- The device tier involves D2D communications.
Four main types of device-tier communications
Device relaying with operator controlled link establishment(DR-OC)
Direct D2D communication with operator controlled link establishment (DC-OC)
Device relaying with device controlled link establishment (DR-DC)
Direct D2D communication with device controlled link establishment (DC-DC)
Security
- One possible solution to ensure security is closed access for the devices that want to operated in the device tier.
- In closed access, a device has a list of “trusted” devices, and devices not on this list must use the macrocell tier to communicate with it. The devices in a group can set a proper encryption between each other to avoid divulging their information to other devices.
- In open access, on the other hand, each device can act as a relay for other devices without any restrictions. Since there is no type of supervision,
security in such a case is a challenging open research problem. Security issues in D2D communication involve the identification of potential attacks, threats, and vulnerability of the system.
Interference Management
In DR-OC and DC-OC
resource allocation and call setup are performed by the BS. Therefore, the BS can
alleviate the problem of interference management to some extent using centralized methods, a well-established research area in wireless communications.
In DR-DC and DC-DC
there is no centralized entity to supervise the resource allocation between devices.
Operating in the same licensed band, devices will inevitably impact macrocell users. To ensure minimal impact on the performance of existing macrocell BSs, a two-tier network needs to be designed with smart interference management strategies and appropriate resource allocation schemes.
Between the macrocell and device tier
To address resource allocation for this type of communication, different approaches such as resource pooling , non-cooperative game or bargaining game , admission control and power allocation , cluster partitioning, and relay selection can be employed.
Pricing
Significance
the operators must answer the “pay for what” question before
they can push forward the operator-controlled D2D technology, which requires extensive analysis of usage cases and business models.
