Power and delay optimization based uplink resource allocation for wireless networks with device-to-device communications

In this paper, the resource allocation problem for all devices is investigated in a multi-sharing uplink scenario of mmWave cyclic prefix-orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (CP-OFDM) based wireless networks with device-to-device (D2D) communications. More specifically, a power and delay optimization based uplink resource allocation (PDO-URA) algorithm is proposed divided into two steps. At first, network resources are allocated to cellular user equipments (CUEs) in terms of power and transmission rate through a proposed approach that intends to maximize throughput. Next, idle resources are allocated by considering delay minimization. To this end, we propose to apply an algorithm based on delay optimization where idle resources are shared with D2D user equipments (DUEs) in the network considering the formed conflicts graphs and the delay information estimated through Network Calculus concepts such as envelope process and service curve. Computational simulations are carried out considering a communication scenario with 5G characteristics such as millimeter waves at frequencies above 6 GHz, comparing also the performance of other algorithms from the literature in terms of quality of service (QoS) parameters such as throughput and delay. The results confirm that the proposed algorithm presents superior performance in terms of throughput and delay for the mmWave CP-OFDM wireless networks with D2D communications than the other considered algorithms.