Performance Analysis of Energy Consumption in Cache-Enabled Multicast D2D Communications

Device-to-Device (D2D) communication as a promising technology in 5G cellular networks provides the communication of the users in the vicinity and thereby decreases end-to-end delay and power consumption. In addition to the aforementioned advantages, it also supports the high-speed data transmission services such as content delivery. In this paper, we consider the D2D multicast communications opportunity in the D2D-cellular hybrid network, in which that one transmitter targets multiple receivers at the same time. We provide the analysis for the proposed system by using tools from stochastic geometry, to calculate the cache hitting probability of the receivers as well as the energy consumption of the hybrid network aiming to seek the optimal number of caching contents in the D2D multicast opportunities.