Radio resource management for network assisted D2D in cellular uplink

Cellular network assisted Device-to-Device (D2D) communication has the potential to increase the network capacity, offload access and core network resources and reduce latency. To realize these potential gains and to ensure a win-win type of coexistence between the cellular and the D2D layer, there is a need to carefully design the procedures for radio resource management (RRM). This paper develops and evaluates low complexity radio resource management (RRM) algorithms that are based on practically feasible and well known measurements. These RRM algorithms include mode selection, power control, and resource allocation. First, the network assists D2D users on a coarse time scale to select D2D (direct) mode or cellular mode. Subsequently, the network informs the D2D users of tolerable power levels which cause minimal interference to the base station, and the possible resources that can be used for D2D communications. Based on this information, the D2D users act autonomously for executing the RRM functions. The simulation result shows that our approach to D2D RRM can harvest the offloading/proximity gain to the network.