Cellular Network based Device-to-Device Wireless Communications

Project Information

CODEC

Grant agreement ID: 630058

Project closed

Start date 15 December 2014

End date 14 December 2016

Funded under

• Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Total cost € 264 722,20

EU contribution € 264 722,20

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITY OF KENT
United Kingdom

Objective

Nowadays, the rapid growth of smartphones provides a great platform and applications for mobile users to connect and interact with other users in new and interesting ways, such as socialising and playing video games with others. These kinds of applications also provide chances for mobile users to interact with people in close proximity by enabling users to discover others based on their physical proximity. However, in the existing wireless cellular networks, all data traffic must go through base stations regardless of the location of the user equipment (UE), even if two UEs are very close. When UEs are at the edge of a cell, the transmit power must be large and the data rate is low. One way to overcome this problem and efficiently handle localised group communication is to enable direct communication between UEs, which is called device-to-device (D2D) communication. D2D as an underlay to cellular networks has been considered as an important component in future cellular systems.
This project, CODEC, focuses on resource management (RM) in cellular D2D communications, which is indispensable for achieving spectral and energy efficiency and providing QoS to different applications. Different from current researches, CODEC envisions that two use cases, direct D2D and D2D relay, should be considered in RM in D2D communications to support proximity-based applications including unicast, multicast and broadcast applications. In order to reflect different applications and use cases in RM for cellular D2D communications, as the first work item, the key novelty of CODEC is that a generic analytical framework will be proposed to analyse the performance of cellular D2D communications under both user cases with various proximity-based applications in a systematic way. Afterwards, based on the analytic framework, RM schemes are developed in a single cell and then extended to multicellular networks in which fractional frequency reuse is adopted to improve the spectrum efficiency.

Fields of science

• engineering and technology › electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering › information engineering › telecommunications › telecommunications networks › mobile network
• engineering and technology › electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering › information engineering › telecommunications › mobile phones
• engineering and technology › electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering › information engineering › telecommunications › radio technology
• natural sciences › computer and information sciences › software › software applications › video games

Programme(s)

• FP7-PEOPLE - Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Topic(s)

• FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IOF - Marie Curie Action: "International Outgoing Fellowships for Career Development"

Call for proposal

FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IOF
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Funding Scheme

MC-IOF - International Outgoing Fellowships (IOF)

Coordinator

UNIVERSITY OF KENT

Administrative Contact

Jane Benstead (Dr.)

• EU contribution: € 264 722,20
• Address: THE REGISTRY CANTERBURY ; CT2 7NZ Canterbury, Kent ; United Kingdom
• Region: South East (England) › Kent › East Kent
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Total cost: No data