Smart Device to Smart Device Communication

Shahid Mumtaz is a senior researcher engineer at the Instituto de Telecomunicações - Pólo de Aveiro, at the Universitário de Santiago, Portugal Jonathan Rodriguez is the Group Leader of the 4TELL Wireless Communication Research Group with the Instituto de Telecomunicações - Pólo de Aveiro, at the Universitário de Santiago, Portugal.

• Introduction.- LTE-A Access, Core and Protocol architecture for D2D Communication.- Node/Peer Discovery, Mode Selection and Signaling for D2D Communication in LTE-A band.- Interference Management in D2D Communication.- Establishment and Maintenance of D2D Communication.- Network Assisted Device-to-Device Communications: Use Cases, Design Approaches and Performance Aspects.- Network-assisted D2D over WiFi Direct.- Device-to-Device (D2D) Communication in Heterogeneous Networks (HetNets).- Mobile Cloud Over LTE-A Band.- Interdependency between Mobile and Electricity Distribution networks; outlook and prospects.