Base Station (BS) Aided D2D (Device to Device) communication in cellular networks

Project Information

BSA-D2D

Grant agreement ID: 274523

Closed project

Start date 1 September 2011

End date 31 August 2012

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 € 126 387,50

EU contribution € 126 387,50

Coordinated by

CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS
France

Objective

"Recent studies predict that the traffic to mobile devices will increase by two orders of magnitude
in the next few years. In particular, this is due to multimedia download generated by the widespread success of Internet-capable smartphones and other portable devices. Today's wireless cellular networks are strained by this dramatic increase in traffic demand. In order to meet this challenge, we argue that a novel network architecture that combine the best of both cellular and ad-hoc (device to device) networks is needed.
This project addresses the theoretical foundations and the system design of a base-station assisted (BSA) device to device (D2D) network, where a large number of D2D local links coexist under a common cellular ``umbrella''. At the same time, in order to take advantage of such architecture for mutimedia distribution, we propose to leverage the massive distributed storage capacity of modern wireless devices (in the order of more than 100TB per sq. km,
in moderately dense urban environment). We advocate the use of regenerative distributed storage codes (a novel form of network coding) for disseminating and retrieving the multimedia information by exploiting mainly the parallel D2D links.
The theoretical foundations of our design leverage several recent development in information theory and coding, such as noisy network coding, interference alignment, regenerative storage codes, multiple description source coding and joint source-channel coding. The project is theoretical in nature, but targets a thorough system performance evaluation in realistic conditions, in order to foster recommendations for future wireless standards and technology transfer to enhance
the European technology competitive edge. The complementary expertise of the fellow researcher and of the host research group, and their world-class research track record are ideally positioned for successfully carrying out this project."

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

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-2010-IIF - Marie Curie Action: "International Incoming Fellowships"

Call for proposal

FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IIF
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Funding Scheme

MC-IIF - International Incoming Fellowships (IIF)

Coordinator

CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS

Administrative Contact

Michèle Saumon (Ms.)

• EU contribution: € 126 387,50
• Address: RUE MICHEL ANGE 3 ; 75794 Paris ; France
• Region: Ile-de-France › Ile-de-France › Paris
• Activity type: Research Organisations
• Total cost: No data