Performance Analysis of the Content Dissemination Mechanism with Proactive Content Fetching and Full-Duplex D2D Communication: an Evolutionary Perspective

Device-to-device (D2D) communication has been regarded as a promising technique for content dissemination in the fifth generation wireless network. To improve the efficiency of content dissemination, in this paper, we propose a content dissemination mechanism with proactive content fetching (PCF) and full-duplex (FD) D2D communication, referred to as PCF-FD mechanism. This mechanism is characterized by the proactive content requests of partial users that don’t request contents originally. FD communication is utilized to establish more D2D links and increase the area spectral efficiency (ASE). Based on stochastic geometry, we derive the recursive formula of content caching probability from the evolutionary perspective. In addition, the expressions of successful offloading probability (SOP), ASE and average energy consumption are also obtained. Computer experiments show that the analytical results match well with simulation results and our scheme outperforms the conventional scheme without PCF and FD communication by 45% in terms of SOP in a scenario with small user density and light load.