Research Article
A New Multicasting Device-to-Device Communication Control Scheme for Virtualized Cellular Networks
Table 1
System parameters used in the simulation experiments.
| | Application Type | Bandwidth Request | Joining probability for the MD2D service |
| | I | 50 Mbits per unit_time | binomial distribution B(1, 1/2) |
| | II | 100 Mbits per unit_time | binomial distribution B(1, 1/3) |
| | III | 200 Mbits per unit_time | binomial distribution B(1, 1/4) |
| | IV | 250 Mbits per unit_time | binomial distribution B(1, 1/2) |
| | Parameter | Value | Description |
| | 1000 | Number of mobile devices in the cellular network |
| | C | 10GHz | the Bandwidth capacity (C) of each microcell |
| | 10 | the predefined number of reachable neighbor devices |
| | 60 | a control parameter to adjust the range of function |
| | | the ’s energy cost for MD2D communications |
| | 5 | an adjusting parameter to measure the system payoff |
| | 0.5 | an adjusting parameter to measure the system payoff |
| | 1 | a control factor to adjust the convergence rate |
| | 0.05 | a pre-defined minimum bound for RD |
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