The industry is producing new wireless mobile devices, such as smart phones, at an ever increasing pace. In terms of processors and memory, these devices are as powerful as the PCs were one decade ago. Therefore, they are perfectly suitable to become the first real-life platforms for ubiquitous computing. For instance, they can be programmed to run location-aware applications that provide peopl…
A large number of new data consuming applications are emerging in the daily routines of mobile users. Device-to-Device (D2D) communication as a new paradigm is introduced to reduce the increasing traffic and offload it to the user equipment (UE). With the development of UE multi-radio interface, we first develop a new hybrid architecture concept for D2D communication. The architecture combines …