Disaster management using D2D communication with power transfer and clustering techniques

This chapter discusses a disaster communication architecture based on device-to-device (D2D) communication. D2D can achieve higher system throughput by taking advantage for short distance, direct communications, and multi-users diversity. The chapter considers a D2D-based energy-harvesting cellular network where the relay and user equipment relay harvest radio frequency energy from a base station and use the harvested energy for the D2D communications. A novel cooperative D2D energy-harvesting clustering network for disaster management is also developed to enhance performance, reliability, and energy efficiency. The chapter employs user-cooperation-based clustering scheme to minimize the average power consumption of user equipments (UEs). It compares the total energy consumption of UE devices in both non-clustering and clustering-based D2D communication. A novel concept of power transfer in D2D clustering with user equipment relay and cluster head is proposed to provide a new framework to handle critical and emergency situations.