Research Article

Energy-Efficient Multicast Transmission for Underlay Device-to-Device Communications: A Social-Aware Perspective

Table 1

The simulation parameters.

ParameterValue

Cell radius400 m
Total UE number ()500, 1000
Spectrum bandwidth10 MHz
Bandwidth of each channel180 KHz
Path loss factor ()4
ShadowingLog-normal fading
with standard deviation of 8 dB
Noise power spectrum density ()−174 dBm/Hz
Minimum SINR threshold ()10 dB
Maximum transmit power of UE ()CUE: 23 dBm
DUE: 20 dBm
Number of D2D groups ()8
Weight coefficient ()
Social threshold ()1
D2D group radius ()30~90 m
UE transmission range90 m