A Critical Review of 3GPP Standardization of Device-to-Device Communication in Cellular Networks

Device-to-device (D2D) communication is rapidly evolving into a viable method of information exchange in a cellular network. It has a very low end-to-end latency and can increase spectral efficiency of a cellular network. The latest releases of 3GPP specification have given considerable attention to standardize this mode of communication and integrate it in the ecosystem of LTE advanced. This will give more impetus to the development of D2D...