Fifth Generation (5G) Network: Device to Device (D2D) Communication Interference Management

The new generation of the cellular network, Fifth-Generation (5G), is already in implementation. On this network, Device-to-Device (D2D) communication is allowed. D2D communication refers to direct communication between devices without data traffic going through any infrastructure node. D2D communication exposes some advantages for improving spectrum, communication delay, as well as the interference problem. D2D users can share the same spectrum with cellular users. The principal challenge in D2D communication in 5G network is interference management. To address this challenge, we propose a Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) based cooperative Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol for multi-hop networks.