Power control and performance analysis for full‐duplex relay‐assisted D2D communication underlaying fifth generation cellular networks

Full‐duplex relay‐assisted device‐to‐device (D2D) communication underlaying fifth generation cellular networks allow devices to exchange information directly and extend coverage via relay strategy. In this study, the authors consider such a scenario, where the D2D communications assisted by fixed‐location full‐duplex relays in interference existing circumstance. Different from previous works, they assume that there are two types of users, cellular users and D2D users. They investigate power control problem and coverage probability performance in the previously assumed situation. Therefore, an effective power control scheme is of great importance to suppress interference between D2D and cellular communications, which can improve the total system throughput and spectral efficiency. To describe it, they formulate a power control optimisation problem for cellular communication and propose a simple on–off power control algorithm for D2D communication. They also obtain an analytic expression for the coverage probability of the cellular link using stochastic geometry according to the proposed algorithm. Simulation results follow to show the rates of both cellular and D2D links in the various numbers of D2D transceivers.