Analysis of D2D-Aided Underlaying Uplink Cellular Networks Using Poisson Hole Process

As one of the key technologies in 5th generation mobile networks, device-to-device (D2D) communication technology can significantly improve spectrum utilization, throughput and energy efficiency as well as reduce congestion in the networks. However, due to the spectrum sharing between D2D users (DUs) and cellular users (CUs), it may also cause serious interferences. In this paper, we adopt appropriate stochastic geometric tools to model and analyze the mutual interferences, based on which the coverage probabilities of different users are derived to evaluate the network performance. Specifically, we model the locations of CUs as a Poisson point process (PPP), while the locations of DUs are modelled as a Poisson hole process (PHP), which is driven by the PPP of CUs’ locations due to the exclusion between the positions of CUs and DUs. Furthermore, the approximated expressions of user coverage probabilities are obtained by two methods, which are consistent with the simulation results. The first method is to dissolve the hole, and the second method is to approximate the PHP through a thinned PPP. In addition, the user ergodic data rates and the sum data rate of the networks are also derived through the second approach. The impacts of key parameters (such as the density of DUs and the size of the warning radius) on the ergodic rates and sum data rate are analyzed.