Signaling overhead reduction techniques in device-to-device communications: Paradigm for 5G and beyond

• Main Authors: Hayat, Omar, Kaleem, Zeeshan, Muhammad Zafarullah, Muhammad Zafarullah, Ngah, Razali, Mohd. Hashim, Siti Zaiton
• Format: Article
• Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2021
• Subjects: TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/94952/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3050106

Device-to-Device (D2D) communications have recently attracted researchers, attention because of their numerous applications in industry verticals. It enables communications among devices without or with the partial involvement of a central system. To initiate a D2D communications device discovery an...