QoS-aware admission control and resource allocation for D2D communications underlaying cellular networks

Device-to-Device (D2D) communications enable user equipments (UEs) in proximity to each other to exchange information by taking advantage of high data-rate and low energy consumption. When D2D transmissions share the radio resources with the cellular UEs, efficient admission control (AC) and radio resource allocation (RRA) strategies play a key-role in controlling the co-channel interference and allowing quality of service (QoS) provision to UEs. This paper proposes a novel joint AC and RRA strategy that provides long-term QoS support to cellular and D2D communications. The AC algorithm derives the best set of cellular and D2D links by maximizing the revenues of the service provider under QoS constraints. The RRA algorithm assigns the available channels and transmits powers to admitted users on the short-term, in order to maximize an average weighted sum-rate under the same QoS constraints of the AC. Due to the NP-hard nature of the optimization problem, we propose an AC greedy algorithm that achieves near-optimal results for reasonable numbers of D2D links. Then, we propose a low-complexity RRA algorithm that decouples channel and power allocation. Numerical results show that the proposed joint AC and RRA strategy outperforms existing frameworks by increasing up to 40% the number of satisfied cellular and D2D links and by reducing energy consumption by more than 50%.