George, GeordieMungara, Ratheesh K.Lozano Solsona, Angel2016-07-182016-07-182015George G, Mungara RK, Lozano A. Optimum exclusion regions for interference protection in device-to-device wireless networks. In: 2015 13th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt); 2015 May 25-29; Mumbai, India. [place unknown]: IEEE; 2015. p.102-9. DOI: 10.1109/WIOPT.2015.7151060http://hdl.handle.net/10230/27078This paper addresses the benefits of introducing exclusion regions around both transmitters and receivers in D2D wireless networks. Such exclusion regions offer protection from interference at the expense of a sparser spatial reuse of spectrum, bringing about a tradeoff whose resolution entails optimizing the size of the exclusion regions as function of relevant system parameters. Our figure of merit for this optimization is the spectral efficiency. We first characterize this quantity for a given size of the exclusion regions, and then proceed to its optimization, altogether establishing the major benefits of incorporating properly sized exclusion regions in the applicable scheduling algorithms.application/pdfeng© 2015 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works./nThe final published article can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/WIOPT.2015.7151060info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObjecthttp://dx.doi.org/10.1109/WIOPT.2015.7151060info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess