Social Attribute Aware Incentive Mechanism for Device-to-Device Video Distribution.

To offload and alleviate the heavy base station (BS) traffic load caused by the rapidly growing video services, device-to-device (D2D) communication, as one of the most indispensable technologies of the future cellular networks, can be potentially exploited by mobile users to distribute videos for a BS. In this paper, an effective pricing-based multicast video distribution system and a grid-based ...