Performance Analysis of Device-to-Device Aided Multicasting in General Network Topologies

Thomas Varela Santana, Richard Combes, Mari Kobayashi

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Abstract

We consider a Device-to-Device (D2D) aided multicast channel, where a base station (BS) wishes to convey a common message to many receivers and these receivers cooperate with each other. We analyze the performance of a two-phase cooperative multicasting scheme requiring only statistical channel knowledge at the BS. Our analysis reveals that, as the number of receivers K grows, the two-phase scheme guarantees an average multicast rate of 1/2 log2 (1 + β ln K) with high probability for any β < β where β∗ depends on the network topology. This scheme undergoes a phase transition at threshold β∗ ln K where transmissions are successful/unsuccessful with high probability when the Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) is above/below this threshold. We also analyze the multicast outage rate when a target joint decoding probability is fixed. Finally, we propose two enhanced schemes by optimally allocating the time resource between two phases and combining received signals from two phases.

Original languageEnglish
Article number8864106
Pages (from-to)137-149
Number of pages13
JournalIEEE Transactions on Communications
Volume68
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2020
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • device-to-device
  • multicast capacity
  • scaling law
  • user cooperation
  • Wireless networks

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