Routing Protocol for Device-to-Device Communication in SoftNet Towards 5G

Device to Device Communication (D2D) refers to a communication where devices communicate with each other directly without the need of cellular infrastructure. D2D is a new concept introduced under 3GPP; several researchers are working on providing solutions for D2D communication for the future network evolution such as IoT (Internet of Things) and IoE (Internet of Everything). Challenges associated with the D2D communication are security, interference management and resource allocation. Besides technical challenges, there are practical problems of incentivizing users to lend their devices to serve as relays for the traffic of others. To overcome these problems we have proposed a routing protocol for data packets of device communication called tree-based intelligent routing protocol based on SOFNET platform which results in support of IoT and IoE for the heterogeneous network. In this paper, we propose the architecture for routing in D2D communication. Simulation results on the proposed algorithm based on throughput are presented.