Overview on initial METIS D2D concept

METIS is the EU flagship project with the purpose of developing a 5G system concept that meets the requirements of the beyond-2020 connected information society and emerging applications. Within METIS project, horizontal topics (HTs) are used to build the overall system concept. Direct Device-to-Device (D2D) communication is one of the HTs and regarded as a promising technology to provide low power, high data rate and low latency services between end-users in the future 5G networks. This paper presents an initial view on the HT D2D concept. In addition, the performance of selected technology components is included in this paper as well.