Mungara, Ratheesh K.Zhang, XinchenLozano Solsona, AngelHeath, Robert W.2016-11-242016-11-242016Mungara RK, Zhang X, Lozano A, Heath RW. Analytical Characterization of ITLinQ: Channel Allocation for Device-to-Device Communication Networks. IEEE T Wirel Commun. 2016; 15 (5): 3603-15. DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2016.25239871536-1276http://hdl.handle.net/10230/27585Device-to-device (D2D) communication allows serving local wireless traffic bypassing the system’s/ninfrastructure. One way to control the interference in D2D networks is to carefully channelize/ntransmissions. This paper presents an analytical characterization of ITLinQ, one of the principal D2D/nchannelization schemes proposed to date. Recognizing that it captures well the spatial characteristics/nof D2D networks, a stochastic geometry setting is utilized for this analysis. The derived expressions/nenable gleaning insights on how ITLinQ avoids situations of excessive interference, and they facilitate/noptimizing the controllable parameters of ITLinQ so as to maximize the system spectral efficiency/n(bits/s/Hz per unit area). With the parameters thus optimized, the ultimate performance of ITLinQ can/nbe evaluated with respect to other D2D channel allocation schemes. In particular, performance evaluation/ncomparisons with the FlashLinQ scheme are provided, and the gains with respect to an unchannelized/nnetwork are quantified.application/pdfeng© 2016 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/TWC.2016.2523987info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TWC.2016.2523987TransmittersReceiversInterferenceWireless communicationGeometryChannel allocationSignal to noise ratioinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess