Research Article

Overlapping Coalition Game for Resource Allocation in Many-to-Many D2D Communication

Table 1

List of major symbols.

SymbolDescription

The number of CUs
The number of D2D pairs
Gaussian white noise
The transmission rate of the th D2D pair sharing
The th resource block
The transmission sum rate of the th CUs
The SINR of the th D2D pair sharing the th
Resource block
The SINR of the th CU
The transmit power of th CUs
The transmit power of D2D pairs
D2D pairs in the same coalition with the th pair
A set of all the D2D pairs sharing the same resource
The reusing indicator of CUs
The transmission sum rate of the all CUs
The transmission sum rate of the all D2D pairs
The path gains from the transmitter of the th CUs to the th D2D pair receiver
The path gains from the transmitter of the th D2D pair to D2D pair receiver
The path gains from the transmitter of the th D2D pair to the th D2D pair receiver
The link gain between the th D2D pair sharing the th channel resource block and the base station
The rate thresholds of CUs
The rate thresholds of D2D pairs
The path gains of the th CUs to the base station
The path gains of the th D2D pair to the base station
The transmission rate of CUs
The maximum transmit power of D2D pairs
The players of all users in the system model
The coalition structure
The utility functions
Historical information table
The power interval
The path loss constant
The multipath fading parameter from the th CUs to receiver of the th D2D pair
The shadow gain from the th CUs to receiver of the th D2D pair
The distance from the th CUs to the receiver of the th D2D pair
The path loss factor
A set of the corresponding D2D pairs and the CU that share the th resource block
The interference intensity of the th D2D pair that reuse the th cellular user