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Resource and power allocation for achieving rate fairness in D2D communications overlaying cellular networks

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This paper presents a novel resource and power allocation scheme for device-to-device (D2D) communications overlaying cellular networks. The proposed scheme is implemented in two consecutive steps. The first step depends on implementing a vital algorithm that guarantees fairness in resource allocation among different D2D pairs by allocating the best subcarriers for every user such that every link’s data rate requirements can be satisfied. The second step utilizes the water-filling algorithm for power allocation among the subcarriers allocated to a certain link. The proposed scheme achieves high fairness with acceptable performance compared to rival algorithms in the literature. The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm outperforms the best subcarrier channel state information resource allocation scheme and the subcarrier achievable data rate scheme in terms of Jain’s fairness index.

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  1. Department of Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Menoufia University, Menouf, 32952, Egypt

    Mohamed Elsherief, Mohamed Elwekeil & Mohammed Abd-Elnaby

  2. Department of Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering, High Institute for Engineering and Technology in Alarish, Arish, Egypt

    Mohamed Elsherief

  3. College of Information Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China

    Mohamed Elwekeil

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Elsherief, M., Elwekeil, M. & Abd-Elnaby, M. Resource and power allocation for achieving rate fairness in D2D communications overlaying cellular networks. Wireless Netw 25, 4049–4058 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-018-01935-y

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