Joint mode selection and proportional fair scheduling for D2D communication

In this paper, we propose a new joint mode selection and proportional fair scheduling scheme for Device-to-Device (D2D) communication in cellular networks. Our objective is to maximize the sum of all users' proportional fairness functions while guaranteeing the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) requirements of both D2D and cellular links. In our scheme, we consider two communication mode options for D2D communication: the dedicated mode and the reuse mode. In order to improve the fairness of the D2D users (DUs), we allocate the dedicated radio resource to the D2D pair with a higher priority. Furthermore, we use the Hungarian Algorithm to implement the sub-optimal resource allocation for multiple D2D pairs in the reuse mode and their reuse cellular users (CUs). The simulation results demonstrate that both the system throughput and the system fairness experience significant increases in our proposed scheme.

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