  Smart meters are utilized to transmit the consumption information to the
metering data management system for observing and management in smart grid
advanced metering infrastructure systems. In the meantime, for efficient
utilization for spectrum, Device-to-Device (D2D) communications underlaying LTE
networks are a promising wireless communication technology for advanced
metering infrastructure which supporting a technique for reusing the same radio
resources (RRs) of LTE networks. Therefore, we examine the utilization of D2D
communication technology for advanced metering infrastructure communications
underlaying LTE networks. A novel approach is suggested for provisioning the
mandatory communication between serving data concentrator and its set of smart
meters using this technology. The suggested approach is dependent on two main
stages. The group of permissible cellular user equipment reuse candidates for
every smart meter is calculated with taking the quality of service demands for
cellular user devices and smart meters into consideration in the first stage.
The optimal RR allocation for every smart meter is determined based on
maximizing the access rate of smart meters which can be accepted and operated
in D2D reuse mode in the second stage. Simulation results prove the efficacy of
the suggested approach for efficient advanced metering infrastructure
communication underlaying LTE systems with accepting remarkable number of SMs
and accomplishing outstanding throughput gain.
