Providing Fast Discovery in D2D Communication with Full Duplex Technology

Abstract

In Direct Device-to-Device (D2D), the device awareness procedure known as the discovery phase is required prior to the exchange of data. This work considers autonomous devices where the infrastructure is not involved in the discovery procedure. Commonly, the transmission of the discovery message is done according to a fixed probability. However, this configuration may be not appropriate to meet the 10 ms control plane latency target defined for the next $5^\mathrm{th}$ generation (5G) system. In this work, we propose a distributed radio resource management framework supporting full duplex technology to provide D2D fast discovery. Such framework provides an algorithm to estimate the number of neighbor devices and to dynamically decide the transmission probability, for adapting to network changes and meeting the 10 ms target. Finally, a signaling scheme is proposed to reduce the network interference. Results show that our framework performs better than a static approach, reducing the time it takes to complete the discovery phase. In addition, supporting full duplex allows to further reduce the discovery time compared to half duplex transmission mode.