Performance of Resource Allocation in Device-to-Device Communication Systems Based on Evolutionally Optimization Algorithms †

• Main Authors: Tan-Hsu Tan, Bor-An Chen, Yung-Fa Huang
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2018-07-01
• Series: Applied Sciences
• Subjects: device-to-device; LTE systems; resource allocation; particle swarm optimization algorithm; genetic algorithm; system capacity
• Online Access: http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/8/8/1271

In this study, the resource blocks (RB) are allocated to user equipment (UE) according to the evolutional algorithms for long-term evolution (LTE) systems. Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm is one of these evolutionary algorithms, which imitates the foraging behavior of a flock of birds through learning and grouping the best experience. In previous works, the Simple Particle Swarm Optimization (SPSO) algorithm was proposed for RB allocation to enhance the throughput of Device-to-Device (D2D) communications and improve the system capacity performance. Genetic algorithm (GA) is another evolutionary algorithm, which is based on the Darwinian models of natural selection and evolution. Therefore, we further proposed a Refined PSO (RPSO) and a novel GA to enhance the throughput of UEs and to improve the system capacity performance. Simulation results show that the proposed GA with 100 populations can converge to suboptimal solutions in 200 generations. The proposed GA and RPSO can improve system capacity performance compared to SPSO by 2.0 and 0.6 UEs, respectively.