Cellular networks with an overlaid device to device network

Spectrum sharing is a novel opportunistic strategy to improve spectral efficiency of wireless networks. Much of the research to quantify such a gain is done under the premise that the spectrum is being used inefficiently by the primary network. Our main result is that even in a spectrally efficient network, device to device users can exploit the network topology to render gains in additional throughput. The focus will be on providing ad-hoc multihop access to a network for device to device users, that are transparent to the primary wireless cellular network, while sharing the primary network's resources.