Social Interaction Assisted Resource Sharing Scheme for Device-to-Device Communication towards Green Internet of Things

Recently, to reduce the increasing energy consumption along with the explosive growth of smart terminals and network data in Internet of Things (IoT), green IoT is attracting more and more attention from both academia and industry. Towards green IoT, this paper devotes attention to Device-to-Device (D2D) communication and social network which are two essential components in green IoT and first reviews the latest developments about them. Further, this paper proposes a social interaction assisted resource sharing scheme for D2D communication, to improve the utilization of spectrum resources in green IoT. Specifically, the proposed scheme abstracts the D2D communication system into social layer and physical layer, by combining social network with D2D communication. Extensive simulations with real social interaction data are conducted and they show that the proposed scheme can achieve improvements in terms of the transmission success rate for green IoT.