On selecting transmission mode for D2D transmitter in underlay cellular network with a multi-antenna base station

Abstract

The Device-to-Device (D2D) communication underlaying cellular networks is considered in this study. The D2D transmitter in the D2D mode can directly transmit messages to a receiver, but it may interfere with the transmission of another cellular user who shares the same uplink channel. The transmitter can also operate in a cellular mode in which no interference to another cellular user occurs. We propose a mode selection scheme that aims to minimize the transmission power of the D2D transmitter subject to constraints on the minimum required data rate and maximum interference to other cellular users. The proposed scheme is based on bounds for transmission power and is less complex than the optimal scheme. Furthermore, it requires only a few statistics and does not need a fading channel distribution. The performance of the scheme is close to optimum when the number of Base Station (BS) antennas is large, and the mean absolute deviation of the fading terms is small. We verify this with numerical results of the Rician and Rayleigh fading channels by assuming that the BS antennas are independent. The simulation results for the two correlated BS antennas are presented herein.