Social-Aware Relay Selection for Cooperative Multicast Device-to-Device Communications

Francesco Chiti, Romano Fantacci and Laura Pierucci
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Francesco Chiti: Department of Information Engineering, University of Florence, 50139 Florence, Italy
Romano Fantacci: Department of Information Engineering, University of Florence, 50139 Florence, Italy
Laura Pierucci: Department of Information Engineering, University of Florence, 50139 Florence, Italy

Future Internet, 2017, vol. 9, issue 4, 1-13

Abstract: The increasing use of social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram to share photos, video streaming, and music among friends has generated a huge increase in the amount of data traffic over wireless networks. This social behavior has triggered new communication paradigms such as device-to-device (D2D) and relaying communication schemes, which are both considered as strong drivers for the next fifth-generation (5G) cellular systems. Recently, the social-aware layer and its relationship to and influence on the physical communications layer have gained great attention as emerging focus points. We focus here on the case of relaying communications to pursue the multicast data dissemination to a group of users forming a social community through a relay node, according to the extension of the D2D mode to the case of device-to-many devices. Moreover, in our case, the source selects the device to act as the relay among different users of the multicast group by taking into account both the propagation link conditions and the relay social-trust level with the constraint of minimizing the end-to-end content delivery delay. An optimization procedure is also proposed in order to achieve the best performance. Finally, numerical results are provided to highlight the advantages of considering the impact of social level on the end-to-end delivery delay in the integrated social–physical network in comparison with the classical relay-assisted multicast communications for which the relay social-trust level is not considered.

Keywords: multicast; device-to-device communications; Internet of Things; mobile social networks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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