TY - GEN
T1 - Social trust and social reciprocity based cooperative D2D communications
AU - Chen, Xu
AU - Proulx, Brian
AU - Gong, Xiaowen
AU - Zhang, Junshan
PY - 2013/8/30
Y1 - 2013/8/30
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 the interplay between social structure and mobile communications, in this paper we exploit social ties in human social networks to enhance cooperative device-to-device communications. Specifically, as hand-held 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 device-to-device 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, and truthful. We evaluate the performance of the mechanism by using real social data traces. Numerical results show that the proposed mechanism can achieve up-to 122% 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 the interplay between social structure and mobile communications, in this paper we exploit social ties in human social networks to enhance cooperative device-to-device communications. Specifically, as hand-held 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 device-to-device 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, and truthful. We evaluate the performance of the mechanism by using real social data traces. Numerical results show that the proposed mechanism can achieve up-to 122% performance gain over the case without D2D cooperation.
KW - Cooperative networking
KW - D2D communication
KW - Mobile social networking
KW - Social reciprocity
KW - Social trust
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U2 - 10.1145/2491288.2491302
DO - 10.1145/2491288.2491302
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84883029780
SN - 9781450321938
T3 - Proceedings of the International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc)
SP - 187
EP - 196
BT - MobiHoc 2013 - Proceedings of the 14th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing
T2 - 14th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing, MobiHoc 2013
Y2 - 29 July 2013 through 1 August 2013
ER -