In recent years, device-to-device (D2D) communication has attained significant attention in
the research community. The advantages of D2D communication can be fully realized in …

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 …

Device-to-device (D2D) two-hop cooperative communication improves the network
coverage and throughput to provide the quality of service and quality of experience to the …

Intelligent vehicular networks emerge as a promising technology to provide efficient data
communication in transportation systems and smart cities. At the same time, the …

Social-aware algorithms have marked themselves as the most successful strategies for cost-
effective content delivery in mobile opportunistic networks. However, these strategies do not …

Device-to-device (D2D) cooperative relay can improve network coverage and throughput by
assisting users with inferior channel conditions to implement multi-hop transmissions. Due to …

Device-to-device-based heterogeneous cellular networks (HCNs) have received
considerable attention recently. However, connectivity optimization is a challenging problem …

Device-to-device (D2D) communications as an underlay to cellular networks can potentially
improve the system throughput and reduce transmission delays between users, which …

Cache-enabled device-to-device (C-D2D) networks allow the constituent user devices to
share their cached content with other user devices through D2D communication. As a result …

Caching is a promising technique for 5G networks to reduce the backhual traffic and
increase the overall network efficiency. In this paper, we study the caching placement policy …