Submitted by JÚLIO HEBER SILVA (julioheber@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-12-02T18:19:39Z No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Fausto da Silva Moraes - 2016.pdf: 3698287 bytes, checksum: cbcf2894f028c54e60d90033a04bdc5e (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Jaqueline Silva (jtas29@gmail.com) on 2016-12-13T15:32:00Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Fausto da Silva Moraes - 2016.pdf: 3698287 bytes, checksum: cbcf2894f028c54e60d90033a04bdc5e (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-13T15:32:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Fausto da Silva Moraes - 2016.pdf: 3698287 bytes, checksum: cbcf2894f028c54e60d90033a04bdc5e (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-11-09 / For the future of cellular networks is estimated a significant increase in the number of connected devices and the bulk data traffic, especially video content. That poses as a challenge for the next generation network. With the rise of new communications paradigm, D2D communication emerge as potential approach for cellular network data offloading, especially when paired with caching solutions within the network. Also, the impact of viral videos could be mitigated by proactively caching the contents being shared on Online Social Networks (OSNs). This work presents a new approach to proactive content cache for D2D-enabled networks, that is aware of users social interaction on OSN’s. Our proposal consists in the combination of user mobile and social informations to find the best located device to cache a content being shared online. Results obtained through simulation show that the proposed approach can improve offload rate, reduce energy consumption and provide a faster content access when compared with other work in literature. / As estimativas de um crescimento significativo do número de dispositivos conectados às redes sem fio e móveis, e do aumento do volume de dados trafegados, em especial o tráfego de conteúdo em vídeo, representam um desafio para a próxima geração de redes celulares. Com o surgimento de novos paradigmas de redes sem fio, a comunicação D2D (Dispositivo-a-Dispositivo) figura como uma abordagem promissora para permitir o descarregamento de dados da rede celular, principalmente quando aliada a técnicas de cache de conteúdo nos dispositivos dos usuários. Além disso, as informações de interações dos usuários em redes sociais online poderiam ser empregadas para suavizar o impacto dos vídeos virais sendo compartilhados entre os usuários, através de uma solução de cache proativa. Nesta dissertação, apresentamos uma proposta de cache proativo de conteúdo ciente às interações sociais online para redes com comunicação D2D. Em nossa proposta, determinamos de forma probabilística qual o melhor dispositivo para armazenar um conteúdo que esteja sendo compartilhado entre os usuários com base nas informações de contatos entre os usuários na rede D2D. Os resultados coletados com o simulador ns-3 mostram que a proposta apresentada pode melhorar o descarregamento de dados da rede celular, reduzir os gastos de energia dos dispositivos dos usuários, e fornecer tempos de transmissão de conteúdo menores, em comparação com outro trabalho da literatura,

Cette thèse porte sur plusieurs technologies de déchargement cellulaire pour les futurs réseaux sans fil avec l’amélioration envisagée sur la efficacité spatiale du spectre et l’efficacité énergétique. Notre recherche concerne deux directions principales, y compris la communication D2D underlaid dans les réseaux cellulaires et le caching proactif au bord de réseau.La première partie de cette thèse contient deux chapitres qui présentent nos résultats de recherche sur les réseaux cellulaire avec D2D underlaid. Notre recherche se focalise sur l’accès opportuniste distribué, dont la performance en termes du débit D2D est optimisé dans deux scénarios: 1) en supposant que l’utilisateur cellulaire avec un trafic saturé peut avoir une probabilité de couverture minimale; 2) en supposant que le trafic discontinu à l’utilisateur cellulaire, dont le délai moyen doit être maintenue au-dessous d’un certain seuil. La deuxième partie de cette thèse se focalise sur les méthodes de caching proactif au bord de réseau, y compris le caching aux petites cellules et aux appareils des utilisateurs. Tout d’abord, nous étudions le placement de contenu probabiliste dans différents types de réseaux et avec différents objectifs d’optimisation. Deuxièmement, pour le caching aux petites cellules, nous proposons un schéma coopérative parmi les petites stations de base, qui exploite le gain combiné du caching coopérative et les techniques de multipoint coordonnée. Les modèles de processus ponctuel nous permet de créer la connexion entre la diversité de transmission en couche PHY et la diversité de contenus stockés. / This thesis focuses on several emerging technologies towards future wireless networks with envisaged improvement on the area spectral efficiency and energy efficiency. The related research involves two major directions, including deviceto- device (D2D) communication underlaid cellular networks and proactive caching at network edge. The first part of this thesis starts with introducing D2D underlaid cellular network model and distributed access control methods for D2D users that reuse licensed cellular uplink spectrum. We aim at optimize the throughput of D2D network in the following two scenarios: 1) assuming always backlogged cellular users with coverage probability constraint, 2) assuming bursty packet arrivals at the cellular user, whose average delay must be kept below a certain threshold. The second part of this thesis focuses on proactive caching methods at network edge, including at small base stations (SBSs) and user devices. First, we study and compare the performance of probabilistic content placement in different types of wireless caching networks and with different optimization objectives. Second, we propose a cooperative caching and transmission strategy in a cluster-centric small cell networks (SCNs), which exploits the combined gain of cache-level cooperation and CoMP technique. Using spatial models from stochastic geometry, we build the connection between PHY transmission diversity and the content diversity in local caches.

Device-to-device (D2D) communications underlaying a cellular infrastructure takes advantage of the physical proximity of communicating devices and increasing resource utilisation. However, adopting D2D communications in complex scenarios poses substantial challenges for the resource allocation design. Meanwhile, matching theory has emerged as a promising framework for wireless resource allocation which can overcome some limitations of game theory and optimisation. This thesis focuses on the resource allocation optimisation for D2D communications based on matching theory. First, resource allocation policy is designed for D2D communications underlaying cellular networks. A novel spectrum allocation algorithm based on many-to-many matching is proposed to improve system sum rate. Additionally, considering the quality-of-service (QoS) requirements and priorities of di erent applications, a context-aware resource allocation algorithm based on many-to-one matching is proposed, which is capable of providing remarkable performance enhancement in terms of improved data rate, decreased packet error rate (PER) and reduced delay. Second, to improve resource utilisation, joint subchannel and power allocation problem for D2D communications with non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is studied. For the subchannel allocation, a novel algorithm based on the many-to-one matching is proposed for obtaining a suboptimal solution. Since the power allocation problem is non-convex, sequential convex programming is adopted to transform the original power allocation problem to a convex one. The proposed algorithm is shown to enhance the network sum rate and number of accessed users. Third, driven by the trend of heterogeneity of cells, the resource allocation problem for NOMA-enhanced D2D communications in heterogeneous networks (HetNets) is investigated. In such a scenario, the proposed resource allocation algorithm is able to closely approach the optimal solution within a limited number of iterations and achieves higher sum rate compared to traditional HetNets schemes. Thorough theoretical analysis is conducted in the development of all proposed algorithms, and performance of proposed algorithm is evaluated via comprehensive simulations. This thesis concludes that matching theory based resource allocation for D2D communications achieves near-optimal performance with acceptable complexity. In addition, the application of D2D communications in NOMA and HetNets can improve system performance in terms of sum rate and users connectivity.

Device-to-Device (D2D) communication is one of the technologies for next generation communication system. Unlike traditional cellular network, D2D allows proximity users to communicate directly with each other without routing the data through a base station. The main aim of this study is to improve the overall energy efficiency (EE) of D2D communications overlaying cellular system. To reduce the complexity of joint EE optimization, we decompose the main EE problem into two subproblems; resource efficiency (RE) optimization in the first stage and EE optimization for D2D pairs in the second stage. Firstly, we propose an alternative two-stage RE-EE scheme for a single cellular user equipment (CUE) and a D2D pair utilizing uplink spectrum. Later, we extend this work for multiple CUEs and D2D pairs by considering the downlink orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA). By exploiting a range of optimization tools including the Bisection method, interior point algorithm, fractional programming, Dinkelbach approach, Lagrange dual decomposition, difference of convex functions, and concave-convex procedure, the original non-convex problems are solved and we present iterative two-stage RE-EE solutions. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed two-stage scheme for uplink scenario outperforms the cellular mode and dedicated mode of communications and the performance is close to the global optimal solution. The results also show that the proposed schemes for downlink resource sharing provide improved system EE performance with significant gain on EE for D2D users compared to a two-stage EE-EE solution, which is obtained numerically. Furthermore, the RE and EE optimization for non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) are considered to study the effect of users' access to the whole spectrum. The results indicate that the proposed RE scheme for NOMA with D2D communications achieves higher system EE compared to the OFDMA based schemes.

In this thesis, performance of relay-assisted Device-to-device (D2D) communication is investigated where D2D traffic is carried through relay nodes. I develop resource management schemes to maximize end-to-end rate as well as conversing rate requirements for cellular and D2D UEs under total power constraint. I also develop a low-complexity distributed solution using the concept of message passing. Considering the uncertainties in wireless links (e.g., when interference from other relay nodes and the link gains are not exactly known), I extend the formulation using robust resource allocation techniques. In addition, a distributed solution approach using stable matching is developed to allocate radio resources in an efficient and computationally inexpensive way under the bounded channel uncertainties. Numerical results show that, there is a distance threshold beyond which relay-assisted D2D communication significantly improves network performance at the cost of small increase in end-to-end delay when compared to conventional approach.

Future wireless networks are evolving to become ever more heterogeneous, including small cells such as picocells and femtocells, and direct device-to-device (D2D) communication that bypasses base stations (BSs) altogether to share stored and personalized content. Conventional user association schemes are unsuitable for heterogeneous networks (HetNets), due to the massive disparities in transmit power and capabilities of different BSs. To make the most of the new low-power infrastructure and D2D communication, it is desirable to facilitate and encourage users to be offloaded from the macro BSs. This dissertation characterizes the gain in network performance (e.g., the rate distribution) from offloading users to small cells and the D2D network, and develops efficient user association, resource allocation, and interference management schemes aiming to achieve the performance gain. First, we optimize the load-aware user association in HetNets with single-antenna BSs, which bridges the gap between the optimal solution and a simple small cell biasing approach. We then develop a low-complexity distributed algorithm that converges to a near-optimal solution with a theoretical performance guarantee. Simulation results show that the biasing approach loses surprisingly little with appropriate bias factors, and there is a large rate gain for cell-edge users. This framework is then extended to a joint optimization of user association and resource blanking at the macro BSs – similar to the enhanced intercell interference coordination (eICIC) proposed in the global cellular standards, 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP). Though the joint problem is nominally combinatorial, by allowing users to associate to multiple BSs, the problem becomes convex. We show both theoretically and through simulation that the optimal solution of the relaxed problem still results in a mostly unique association. Simulation shows that resource blanking can further improve the network performance. Next, the above framework with single-antenna transmission is extended to HetNets with BSs equipped with large-antenna arrays and operating in the massive MIMO regime. MIMO techniques enable the option of another interference management: serving users simultaneously by multiple BSs – termed joint transmission (JT). This chapter formulates a unified utility maximization problem to optimize user association with JT and resource blanking, exploring which an efficient dual subgradient based algorithm approaching optimal solutions is developed. Moreover, a simple scheduling scheme is developed to implement near-optimal solutions. We then change direction slightly to develop a flexible and tractable framework for D2D communication in the context of a cellular network. The model is applied to study both shared and orthogonal resource allocation between D2D and cellular networks. Analytical SINR distributions and average rates are derived and applied to maximize the total throughput, under an assumption of interference randomization via time and/or frequency hopping, which can be viewed as an optimized lower bound to other more sophisticated scheduling schemes. Finally, motivated by the benefits of cochannel D2D links, this dissertation investigates interference management for D2D links sharing cellular uplink resources. Showing that the problem of maximizing network throughput while guaranteeing the service of cellular users is non-convex and hence intractable, a distributed approach that is computationally efficient with minimal coordination is proposed instead. The key algorithmic idea is a pricing mechanism, whereby BSs optimize and transmit a signal depending on the interference to D2D links, who then play a best response (i.e., selfishly) to this signal. Numerical results show that our algorithms converge quickly, have low overhead, and achieve a significant throughput gain, while maintaining the quality of cellular links at a predefined service level. / text

In order to support the new paradigm shift in fifth generation (5G) mobile communication, radically different network architectures, associated technologies and network operation algorithms, need to be developed compared to existing fourth generation (4G) cellular solutions. The evolution toward 5G mobile networks will be characterized by an increasing number of wireless devices, increasing device and service complexity, and the requirement to access mobile services ubiquitously. To realise the dramatic increase in data rates in particular, research is focused on improving the capacity of current, Long Term Evolution (LTE)-based, 4G network standards, before radical changes are exploited which could include acquiring additional spectrum. The LTE network has a reuse factor of one; hence neighbouring cells/sectors use the same spectrum, therefore making the cell-edge users vulnerable to heavy inter cell interference in addition to the other factors such as fading and path-loss. In this direction, this thesis focuses on improving the performance of cell-edge users in LTE and LTE-Advanced networks by initially implementing a new Coordinated Multi-Point (CoMP) technique to support future 5G networks using smart antennas to mitigate cell-edge user interference in uplink. Successively a novel cooperative uplink inter-cell interference mitigation algorithm based on joint reception at the base station using receiver adaptive beamforming is investigated. Subsequently interference mitigation in a heterogeneous environment for inter Device-to-Device (D2D) communication underlaying cellular network is investigated as the enabling technology for maximising resource block (RB) utilisation in emerging 5G networks. The proximity of users in a network, achieving higher data rates with maximum RB utilisation (as the technology reuses the cellular RB simultaneously), while taking some load off the evolved Node B (eNodeB) i.e. by direct communication between User Equipment (UE), has been explored. Simulation results show that the proximity and transmission power of D2D transmission yields high performance gains for D2D receivers, which was demonstrated to be better than that of cellular UEs with better channel conditions or in close proximity to the eNodeB in the network. It is finally demonstrated that the application, as an extension to the above, of a novel receiver beamforming technique to reduce interference from D2D users, can further enhance network performance. To be able to develop the aforementioned technologies and evaluate the performance of new algorithms in emerging network scenarios, a beyond the-state-of-the-art LTE system-level-simulator (SLS) was implemented. The new simulator includes Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) antenna functionalities, comprehensive channel models (such as Wireless World initiative New Radio II i.e. WINNER II) and adaptive modulation and coding schemes to accurately emulate the LTE and LTE-A network standards.

IEEE 802.11p, the known standard for Vehicular Adhoc NETworks (VANETs), suffers from scalability issues and unbounded delay. In addition, the desire to use networks already in existence has created motivation for using cellular networks for vehicular applications. LTE-Advanced is one of the most promising access technologies in the wireless field, providing high data rate, low latency, and a large coverage area. Thus, LTE/LTE-A can be potential access technologies for supporting vehicular applications. Vehicular safety applications are based on broadcasting messages to neighboring vehicles. The vehicle location precision is crucial for safety applications. Thus, the freshness of the information (i.e. vehicle location) at the neighboring vehicles is very important. As LTE is an infrastructure-based network, all transmissions should pass through it. When the load of the network is high compared to the available resources, large delays may occur. The focus of this thesis is to propose solutions to make LTE suitable for vehicular safety applications. The first solution is to adapt the vehicular safety application to be suitable in LTE network. For this purpose, we propose an adaptation of the safety message generation rate. This adaptation uses a queueing model to compute the freshness of the information of vehicles at the destination, based on their message generation rates. It then adjusts the generation periods to provide a similar accuracy for all vehicles. The second approach is to modify the LTE and make it suitable for these kinds of applications. Thus, we proposed a scheduler for LTE which is suitable for vehicular safety applications. It considers the speed and location of the vehicles to allocate the resources to them for the transmission of safety messages. We also studied the message dissemination in the downlink, and proposed an efficient way to deliver the safety messages to the neighboring vehicles. Finally, we propose a scheme that uses both LTE-D2D and LTE-cellular communication for the transmission of safety messages. The centralized location information is used for Device-to-Device (D2D) pair discovery and resource allocation. The proposed scheme provides resource efficiency by enabling the reuse of the resources by vehicles. We also study the effect of the awareness range and period of updating location information at the server on resource usage and accuracy of D2D pair detection.

CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel Superior / Ericsson Brasil / O aumento da demanda por serviÃos ricos em multimÃdia e a escassez do espectro eletromagnÃtico tÃm motivado a pesquisa de tecnologias capazes de aumentar a capacidade de sistemas sem fio sem requerer espectro adicional. Nesse contexto, comunicaÃÃes Dispositivo-a-Dispositivo (D2D, do inglÃs Device-to-Device) representam uma tecnologia promissora. Ao permitir comunicaÃÃo direta e de baixa potÃncia entre os dispositivos, comunicaÃÃes D2D levam a um maior e mais inteligente reuso dos recursos de rÃdio, permitindo um descongestionamento da rede de transporte de dados. Como resultado, a capacidade total do sistema e especialmente a eficiÃncia espectral sÃo aumentadas; e a proximidade entre os dispositivos permitem transferÃncias de dados com baixo atraso e altas taxas de dados, sem requerer potÃncia extra da bateria dos dispositivos. Entretanto, com o objetivo de tornar real os potenciais ganhos de comunicaÃÃes D2D como uma rede secundÃria da celular (primÃria), algumas questÃes chave precisam ser controladas. Assumindo que os dispositivos se comunicando estÃo cientes um do outro, a condiÃÃo do enlace (canal) deve ser avaliada. Caso seja benÃfica, tÃcnicas de GestÃo de recursos de rÃdio (RRM, do inglÃs Radio Resource Management) sÃo empregadas para que a interferÃncia co-canal causada nos dispositivos celulares seja mitigada. Tais tÃcnicas podem ser resumidas como: agrupamento, seleÃÃo de modo e controle de potÃncia. Nessa dissertaÃÃo, eu foco a minha atenÃÃo para RRM em comunicaÃÃes D2D subjacentes a redes LTE, e para as principais tÃcnicas de RRM para mitigar a interferÃncia co-canal. Objetivando a reduÃÃo da interferÃncia intra-celular e na melhoria da eficiÃncia espectral, eu formulo um problema conjunto de agrupamento e controle de potÃncia. Entretanto, devido à sua complexidade eu proponho mÃtodos sub-Ãtimos para agrupar usuÃrios celulares e D2D com o objetivo de minimizar a interferÃncia intra-celular, levando em conta a ortogonalidade espacial entre os usuÃrios que compartilham o recurso. AlÃm disso, eu analiso mÃtodos para decidir se um candidato D2D deveria se comunicar diretamente ou de modo convencional atravÃs da estaÃÃo rÃdio-base (eNB, do inglÃs Evolved Node B). Os resultados mostram que comunicaÃÃes D2D conseguem melhorar a eficiÃncia espectral do sistema e que a maioria dos ganhos pode ser alcanÃada agrupando de forma adequada os usuÃrios para compartilhar recursos baseando-se em projeÃÃes sucessivas e ortogonais, assim como combinando diferentes mÃtricas de compatibilidade espacial. AlÃm disso, nessa dissertaÃÃo eu argumento que tecnologias D2D podem ser usadas para aumentar ainda mais a eficiÃncia espectral e energÃtica se os parÃmetros chave dos algoritmos de RRM forem adequadamente estendidos para comunicaÃÃes D2D em mÃltiplos saltos. Especificamente, eu proponho um novo algoritmo distribuÃdo de controle de potÃncia baseado em maximizaÃÃo da utilidade que à capaz de equilibrar eficiÃncia espectral e energÃtica, enquanto leva em consideraÃÃo a seleÃÃo de modo e restriÃÃes na alocaÃÃo de recursos inerentes à integraÃÃo do ambiente celular-D2D. Os resultados numÃricos mostram que comunicaÃÃes D2D em mÃltiplos saltos combinadas com o algoritmo de controle de potÃncia proposto sÃo Ãteis nÃo apenas para colher os potenciais ganhos identificados na literatura, mas tambÃm para estender a cobertura de redes celulares. / The increasing demand for fast multimedia services and the scarcity of electromagnetic spectrum has motivated the research of technologies able to increase the capacity of wireless systems without requiring additional spectrum. In this context, Device-to-Device (D2D) communication represents a promising technology. By enabling direct and low-power communication among devices, D2D communication leads to an increased and intelligent spatial reuse of radio resources allowing to offload the data transport network. As a result, the overall system capacity and specially the spectral efficiency is increased; and the proximity between devices allows data transfer with low delays and high rates without requiring extra power from devicesâ batteries. However, in order to realize the potential gains of D2D communications as a secondary network of the cellular (primary) one, some key issues must be tackled. Assuming that the communicating devices are aware of each other, the actual link (channel) conditions must be evaluated. If beneficial, Radio Resource Management (RRM) techniques would be employed so that the co-channel interference caused in cellular devices would be mitigated. Such techniques may be summarized as: grouping, mode selection, and power control. In this thesis, I focus my attention on the RRM for D2D communications underlaying a Long Term Evolution (LTE)-like network, and the main RRM techniques to mitigate the co-channel interference. Aiming at the reduction of the intra-cell interference and at the improvement of spectral efficiency, I formulate a joint grouping and power allocation problem. However, due to its complexity I propose suboptimal methods to group cellular and D2D User Equipments (UEs) with the goal of minimizing intra-cell interference, taking into account spatial orthogonality between the UEs that share the same resources. In addition, I analyze methods to decide if D2D-capable UEs should communicate directly to one another or in the conventional way via the Evolved Node B (eNB). The results show that D2D communications can improve the spectral efficiency of the system and that most of this improvement can be achieved by suitably grouping the UEs for sharing resources based on successive orthogonal projections and matching different spatial compatibility metrics. Moreover, in this thesis I argue that D2D technology can be used to further increase the spectral and energy efficiency if the key D2D RRM algorithms are suitably extended to support network assisted multi-hop D2D communications. Specifically I propose a novel, distributed utility maximizing power control (PC) scheme that is able to balance spectral and energy efficiency while taking into account mode selection and resource allocation constraints that are important in the integrated cellular-D2D environment. The analysis and numerical results indicate that multi-hop D2D communications combined with the proposed PC scheme can be useful not only for harvesting the potential gains previously identified in the literature, but also for extending the coverage of cellular networks.

In this thesis, we proposed the use of device-to-device (D2D) communications for extending the coverage area of active base stations, for public safety communications with partial coverage. A 3GPP standard compliant D2D system level simulator is developed for HetNets and public safety scenarios and used to evaluate the performance of D2D discovery and communications underlying cellular networks. For D2D discovery, the benefits of time-domain inter-cell interference coordi- nation (ICIC) approaches by using almost blank subframes were evaluated. Also, the use of multi-hop is proposed to improve, even further, the performance of the D2D discovery process. Finally, the possibility of using multi-hop D2D communications for extending the coverage area of active base stations was evaluated. Improvements in energy and spectral efficiency, when compared with the case of direct UE-eNB communi- cations, were demonstrated. Moreover, UE power control techniques were applied to reduce the effects of interference from neighboring D2D links.