Resource allocation for energy harvesting assisted D2D communications underlaying OFDMA cellular networks

Abstract

D2D communications underlaying cellular networks has become very popular recently. Inter- ference between cellular users and D2D users is one of the tricky issues we need to solve. Another challenging issue is limited battery lives. In this thesis, we address these two issues together by introducing an energy harvesting (EH) assisted D2D model where the whole transmission process is divided into multiple time slots. At the beginning of every time slot, each D2D user will update the remaining energy level to the base station (BS) and the BS will then decide whether the D2D user should harvest energy or transmit data. The objective is to maximize sum throughput for all D2D users. To solve the problem, we first adopt the NOMAD algorithm, then propose a heuristic algorithm as sub-optimal solution. Numerical results show that our proposed algorithm can achieve almost the same sum throughput at a significantly smaller time cost.