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Interference-Aware Transmission for D2D Communications in a Cellular Network

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Underlay device-to-device (D2D) communication in a cellular network is expected to improve spectrum utilization as well as to enable the use of new proximity-based applications. However, deploying D2D communications in a cellular network poses some challenges in the system design due to the potential interference between the cellular links and the D2D links. In this paper, we consider a scenario where a D2D device equipped with multiple antennas attempts to reuse the downlink resources of an active cellular user. Two strategies are proposed to handle the interference that the D2D link may cause to the cellular link. Interference nulling (IN), the first strategy, completely eliminates the interference, while interference constraining (IC), the second strategy, intends to limit the amount of residual interference such that the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) for the cellular user is ensured to be higher than a certain threshold. Both methods do not produce additional overhead at the base station (BS), since the D2D side autonomously determines the transmit signals without involvement of the BS. The results of a numerical analysis are then presented to compare the performance of these two strategies under various environments.

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  1. We set up the parameters based on the following criteria: (1) all nodes are equipped with multiple antennas. (2) The number of antennas at the BS is higher than that at every UE. (3) The D2D-TX is equipped with more antennas than CUE to meet the nulling condition of the IN strategy.

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This work was supported by Institute for Information & Communications Technology Promotion (IITP) grant funded by the Korean government (MSIT) (No. 2017-0-00724, Development of Beyond 5G Mobile Communication Technologies (Ultra-Reliable, Low-Latency, and Massive Connectivity) and Combined Access Technologies for Cellular-based Industrial Automation Systems).

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  1. School of Electronic Engineering, Soongsil University, 369 Sangdo-Ro, Dongjak-Gu, Seoul, 06978, Korea

    Son Dinh-Van & Oh-Soon Shin

  2. Department of ICMC Convergence Technology, Soongsil University, 369 Sangdo-Ro, Dongjak-Gu, Seoul, 06978, Korea

    Van-Dinh Nguyen & Oh-Soon Shin

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Dinh-Van, S., Nguyen, VD. & Shin, OS. Interference-Aware Transmission for D2D Communications in a Cellular Network. Wireless Pers Commun 98, 1489–1503 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-017-4928-2

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