Device-to-Device (D2D) communication will become a key feature supported
by next generation cellular networks, a topic of enormous importance to
modern communication. Currently, D2D serves as an underlay to the
cellular network as a means to increase spectral efficiency. Although
D2D communication brings large benefits in terms of system capacity, it
also causes interference as well as increased computation complexity to
cellular networks as a result of spectrum sharing. Thus, efficient
resource management must be performed to guarantee a target performance
level of cellular communication. This brief presents the
state-of-the-art research on resource management for D2D communication
underlaying cellular networks. Those who work with D2D communication
will use this book's information to help ensure their work is as
efficient as possible. Along with the survey of existing work, this book
also includes the fundamental theories, key techniques, and
applications.