Peer Selection in Device-to-Device Communication Based on Multi-Attribute Decision Making

The massive number of peers in network with the mobility of peers rises the challenges of finding the best peer to establish a Device-to-Device (D2D) connection. This paper aims to evaluate the performance of the peer selection mechanism where the peer selection mechanism is proposed using a multi-attribute decision-making technique, based on Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Hierarchical Adaptive Weighting (HAW) algorithms. It attempts to find and select the best peer to establish D2D communication when the user is moving among different cells in the network. The performance of the proposed mechanism showed better performance based on the attribute weights.