“…These challenges can be addressed by the evolution of wireless standards, which can be achieved through the adoption of various technologies. These technologies include massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, artificial intelligence (AI), visible light communication (VLC), millimeter wave (mmWave) communications, cognitive radios (Khadim et al, 2017;Khan et al, 2016;Shaikh and Altaf, 2013;Shaikh and Tamil, 2015) and device-to-device (D2D) communications (Letaief et al, 2019;Noura and Nordin, 2016). D2D communications provide exciting opportunities to communicate user equipment directly to base stations (Fig.…”