Exploiting social ties for cooperative D2D communications: A mobile social networking case

X Chen, B Proulx, X Gong… - IEEE/ACM Transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Thanks to the convergence of pervasive mobile communications and fast-growing online
social networking, mobile social networking is penetrating into our everyday life. Aiming to …

Social trust and social reciprocity based cooperative D2D communications

X Chen, B Proulx, X Gong, J Zhang - … on mobile ad hoc networking and …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
Thanks to the convergence of pervasive mobile communications and fast-growing online
social networking, mobile social networking is penetrating into our everyday life. Aiming to …

SERS: Social-aware energy-efficient relay selection in D2D communications

Y Li, Z Zhang, H Wang, Q Yang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The explosion of mobile applications and phenomenal adoption of mobile connectivity by
end users have generated increasing amounts of mobile data traffic. Recognizing the need …

Cooperative device-to-device communications: Social networking perspectives

Y Meng, C Jiang, HH Chen, Y Ren - IEEE Network, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With an increasing demand to improve spectrum efficiency and energy efficiency in cellular
networks, device-to-device (D2D) communications have drawn a lot of attention from both …

Green cooperative device–to–device communication: A social–aware perspective

E Datsika, A Antonopoulos, N Zorba… - IEEE Access, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As the mobile operators strive to accommodate the increasing load and capacity
requirements, direct communication among users' devices, namely, device-to-device (D2D) …

To relay or not to relay: Learning device-to-device relaying strategies in cellular networks

N Mastronarde, V Patel, J Xu, L Liu… - IEEE Transactions …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider a cellular network where mobile transceiver devices that are owned by self-
interested users are incentivized to cooperate with each other using tokens, which they …

A survey on socially aware device-to-device communications

M Ahmed, Y Li, M Waqas, M Sheraz… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Device-to-device (D2D) communication is continuously evolving and engulfing a wide
diversity of proximate services and applications, which is considered as one of the key …

Exploiting social relationships for trustworthy D2D relay in 5G cellular networks

N Saxena, FH Kumbhar, A Roy - IEEE Communications …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The rapid growth of IoT is expected to offer a better quality of life and open up new business
applications. However, the huge number of IoT devices are likely to create an immense …

Device-to-device relaying: Optimization, performance perspectives, and open challenges towards 6G networks

P Mach, Z Becvar - IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A relaying can significantly improve performance of contemporary mobile networks in terms
of capacity and/or energy consumption. Nevertheless, an incorporation of conventional relay …

Dynamic social-aware peer selection for cooperative relay management with D2D communications

Y Gao, Y Xiao, M Wu, M Xiao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we investigate the optimal dynamic social-aware peer selection with spectrum-
power trading to maximize the average sum energy efficiency (EE) of cellular users (CUs) for …