Efficient network management scheme for device-to-device communication using channel indicators

Device-to-Device (D2D) communication maneuvers the proximity services for flexible communication between two nearby devices. It provides high data rates and enhances the spectral and energy efficiency of the D2D communication systems. The base station plays an important role in allocating cellular resources to D2D users. However, it suffers from challenges, such as interference, inefficient resource allocation, security, device discovery, and many more, which may deteriorate the performance of D2D communication. To overcome the aforementioned issues, in this paper, we present an analytics-based efficient network selection scheme that utilizes the reference channel indicators, i.e., receive strength signal indicator, received signal received power, and reference signal received quality to select the best micro base station (MBS) between the D2D user. We evaluated the proposed scheme in five different simulated scenarios wherein each scenario, there are a different number of MBS and D2D pairs. The MBS broadcasts the reference channel indicators at a specific interval of time, and the D2D pairs select the MBS that has the most promising indicator. Finally, all the proposed scenarios are compared and evaluated against the sum rate to analyze the performance of D2D communication with the reference channel indicators.