Harnessing D2D Communications in Collaborative Mobile Clouds for Content Sharing: An Energy Efficient Communication Scheme

This paper presents an energy efficiency (EE) communication scheme for content sharing with Collaborative Mobile Clouds (CMC) and D2D cluster. A waterfilling-based data segmentation approach for content distribution is proposed. Within the CMC, the cost-effective resource allocation and the power control mechanisms for D2D communications are designed. Through performance comparisons, it is disclosed that the proposed scheme dominates different variations of it in terms of system EE.