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A Survey on Security in D2D Communications

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Device-to-Device (D2D) communications have emerged as a promising technology for the next generation mobile communication networks and wireless systems (5G). As an underlay network of conventional cellular networks (LTE or LTE-Advanced), D2D communications have shown great potential in improving communication capability, erasing communication delay, reducing power dissipation, and fostering multifarious new applications and services. However, security in D2D communications, which is essential for the success of D2D services, has not yet been seriously studied in the literature. In this paper, we explore a security architecture for D2D communications under the framework of 3GPP LTE. We further investigate potential security threats and specify security requirements accordingly. Existing security solutions in D2D communications are seriously surveyed and evaluated based on the specified security architecture and requirements in order to figure out open research issues and motivate future research efforts.

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Acknowledgments

This work is sponsored by the NSFC (grant U1536202), the 111 project (grant B08038), the PhD grant of the Chinese Educational Ministry (grant JY0300130104), the initial grant of the Chinese Educational Ministry for researchers from abroad (grant JY0600132901), and the grant of the Shaanxi Province for excellent researchers from abroad (grant 680F1303), as well as Aalto University.

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  2. Department of Communications and Networking, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland

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Wang, M., Yan, Z. A Survey on Security in D2D Communications. Mobile Netw Appl 22, 195–208 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-016-0741-5

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