Energy efficiency resource allocation for D2D communication network based on relay selection

Abstract

In order to solve the problem of spectrum resource shortage and energy consumption, we put forward a new model that combines with D2D communication and energy harvesting technology: energy harvesting-aided D2D communication network under the cognitive radio (EHA-CRD), where the D2D users harvest energy from the base station and the D2D source communicate with D2D destination by D2D relays. Our goals are to investigate the maximization energy efficiency (EE) of the network by joint time allocation and relay selection while taking into the constraints of the signal-to-noise ratio of D2D and the rates of the Cellular users. During this process, the energy collection time and communication time are randomly allocated. The maximization problem of EE can be divided into two sub-problems: (1) relay selection problem; (2) time optimization problem. For the first sub-problem, we propose a weighted sum maximum algorithm to select the best relay. For the last sub-problem, the EE maximization problem is non-convex problem with time. Thus, by using fractional programming theory, we transform it into a standard convex optimization problem, and we propose the optimization iterative algorithm to solve the convex optimization problem for obtaining the optimal solution. And, the simulation results show that the proposed relay selection algorithm and time optimization algorithm are significantly improved compared with the existing algorithms.