TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploiting social ties for cooperative D2D communications
T2 - A mobile social networking case
AU - Chen, Xu
AU - Proulx, Brian
AU - Gong, Xiaowen
AU - Zhang, Junshan
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation under Grants CNS-1117462 and CNS-1218484 and the DoD MURI Project under Grant No. FA9550-09-1-0643. Part of the results have appeared in the ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc), Bangalore, India, July 29-August 1, 2013.
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2014 IEEE.
PY - 2015/10/1
Y1 - 2015/10/1
N2 - Thanks to the convergence of pervasive mobile communications and fast-growing online social networking, mobile social networking is penetrating into our everyday life. Aiming to develop a systematic understanding of mobile social networks, in this paper we exploit social ties in human social networks to enhance cooperative device-to-device (D2D) communications. Specifically, as handheld devices are carried by human beings, we leverage two key social phenomena, namely social trust and social reciprocity, to promote efficient cooperation among devices. With this insight, we develop a coalitional game-theoretic framework to devise social-tie-based cooperation strategies for D2D communications. We also develop a network-assisted relay selection mechanism to implement the coalitional game solution, and show that the mechanism is immune to group deviations, individually rational, truthful, and computationally efficient. We evaluate the performance of the mechanism by using real social data traces. Simulation results corroborate that the proposed mechanism can achieve significant performance gain over the case without D2D cooperation.
AB - Thanks to the convergence of pervasive mobile communications and fast-growing online social networking, mobile social networking is penetrating into our everyday life. Aiming to develop a systematic understanding of mobile social networks, in this paper we exploit social ties in human social networks to enhance cooperative device-to-device (D2D) communications. Specifically, as handheld devices are carried by human beings, we leverage two key social phenomena, namely social trust and social reciprocity, to promote efficient cooperation among devices. With this insight, we develop a coalitional game-theoretic framework to devise social-tie-based cooperation strategies for D2D communications. We also develop a network-assisted relay selection mechanism to implement the coalitional game solution, and show that the mechanism is immune to group deviations, individually rational, truthful, and computationally efficient. We evaluate the performance of the mechanism by using real social data traces. Simulation results corroborate that the proposed mechanism can achieve significant performance gain over the case without D2D cooperation.
KW - Cooperative networking
KW - Device-to-device (D2D)
KW - Game theory
KW - Mobile social networking
KW - Social reciprocity
KW - Social trust
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U2 - 10.1109/TNET.2014.2329956
DO - 10.1109/TNET.2014.2329956
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84948434446
SN - 1063-6692
VL - 23
SP - 1471
EP - 1484
JO - IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
JF - IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
IS - 5
M1 - 6839046
ER -