A Survey of Distributed Resource Allocation for Device-to-Device Communication in Cellular Networks

Device-to-device communication is a technique for direct communication in a controlled environment, leading to better network performance. Advantages of device-to-device communications include increased spectral efficiency, increased power and energy efficiency, increased capacity, service quality assurance, reduced interference, improved reliability, reduced latency, improved coverage and cost efficiency. However, the using of device-to-device communication technology in the cellular networks causes interference; because the same resources are shared between two types of users. Hence, we need to reduce the interference between the devices –to-device in the cellular network. One way to prevent interference or reduce it is to allocate resources appropriately. In this paper, we are going to explore and review distributed resource allocation methods, and study ways to reduce interference.