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A Comprehensive Survey on Mobility-Aware D2D Communications: Principles, Practice and Challenges

A Comprehensive Survey on Mobility-Aware D2D Communications: Principles, Practice and Challenges
A Comprehensive Survey on Mobility-Aware D2D Communications: Principles, Practice and Challenges

Device-to-device (D2D) communication proposes a new epitome in mobile networking to avail data exchange between physically proximate devices. The exploitation of D2D communication enables mobile operators to harvest short range communications for improving network performance and corroborating proximity-based services. In this paper, we investigate mobility aspects of D2D communication, which are indispensable for the adoption and implementation of D2D communication technology. We present an extensive review of the state-of-the-art problems and the corresponding solutions for encouraging the exploitation of mobility to assist D2D communication. Specifically, by identifying the mobility models, traces, problems, requirements, and features of different proposals, we discuss the lessons learned and summarize the advantages of mobility-aware D2D communication. We also present open problems and highlight future research directions concerning D2D communication applications in real-life scenarios. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first comprehensive survey to address mobility-aware D2D communication, which offers insight to the underlying problems and provides the potential solutions.

Device-to-device communication, mobile communication, mobile data traffic, mobility
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Waqas, Muhammad
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Waqas, Muhammad, Niu, Yong, Li, Yong, Ahmed, Manzoor, Jin, Depeng, Ahmed, Manzoor, Chen, Sheng and Han, Zhu (2020) A Comprehensive Survey on Mobility-Aware D2D Communications: Principles, Practice and Challenges. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 22 (3), 1863-1886, [8740977]. (doi:10.1109/COMST.2019.2923708).

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Device-to-device (D2D) communication proposes a new epitome in mobile networking to avail data exchange between physically proximate devices. The exploitation of D2D communication enables mobile operators to harvest short range communications for improving network performance and corroborating proximity-based services. In this paper, we investigate mobility aspects of D2D communication, which are indispensable for the adoption and implementation of D2D communication technology. We present an extensive review of the state-of-the-art problems and the corresponding solutions for encouraging the exploitation of mobility to assist D2D communication. Specifically, by identifying the mobility models, traces, problems, requirements, and features of different proposals, we discuss the lessons learned and summarize the advantages of mobility-aware D2D communication. We also present open problems and highlight future research directions concerning D2D communication applications in real-life scenarios. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first comprehensive survey to address mobility-aware D2D communication, which offers insight to the underlying problems and provides the potential solutions.

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Accepted/In Press date: 19 June 2019
e-pub ahead of print date: 19 June 2019
Published date: 1 July 2020
Additional Information: Funding Information: Manuscript received July 29, 2018; revised January 5, 2019 and May 15, 2019; accepted June 13, 2019. Date of publication June 19, 2019; date of current version August 21, 2020. This work was supported in part by the National Key Research and Development Program of China under Grant SQ2018YFB180012, in part by the National Nature Science Foundation of China under Grant 61971267, Grant 61972223, Grant 61861136003, and Grant 61621091, in part by the Beijing Natural Science Foundation under Grant L182038, in part by the Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology under Grant 20031887521, and in part by the research fund of Tsinghua University—Tencent Joint Laboratory for Internet Innovation Technology. (Corresponding author: Yong Li.) M. Waqas, Y. Li, and D. Jin are with the Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China (e-mail: wa-j15@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn; liyong07@tsinghua.edu.cn). Publisher Copyright: © 1998-2012 IEEE.
Keywords: Device-to-device communication, mobile communication, mobile data traffic, mobility

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Author: Muhammad Waqas
Author: Yong Niu
Author: Yong Li
Author: Manzoor Ahmed
Author: Depeng Jin
Author: Manzoor Ahmed
Author: Sheng Chen
Author: Zhu Han

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