Intelligent surfaces empowered wireless network: Recent advances and the road to 6G

Q Wu, B Zheng, C You, L Zhu, K Shen… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intelligent surfaces (ISs) have emerged as a key technology to empower a wide range of
appealing applications for wireless networks, due to their low cost, high energy efficiency …

Near-field communications: A comprehensive survey

Y Liu, C Ouyang, Z Wang, J Xu, X Mu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Multiple-antenna technologies are evolving towards large-scale aperture sizes, extremely
high frequencies, and innovative antenna types. This evolution is giving rise to the …

Multi-user modular XL-MIMO communications: Near-field beam focusing pattern and user grouping

X Li, Z Dong, Y Zeng, S Jin… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we investigate multi-user modular extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-
output (XL-MIMO) communication systems, where modular extremely large-scale uniform …

Holographic imaging with XL-MIMO and RIS: Illumination and reflection design

G Torcolacci, A Guerra, H Zhang, F Guidi… - IEEE Journal of …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses a near-field imaging problem utilizing extremely large-scale multiple-
input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) antennas and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) …

The Road to Next-Generation Multiple Access: A 50-Year Tutorial Review

Y Liu, C Ouyang, Z Ding, R Schober - arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.00189, 2024 - arxiv.org
The evolution of wireless communications has been significantly influenced by remarkable
advancements in multiple access (MA) technologies over the past five decades, shaping the …

Bayes-Optimal Unsupervised Learning for Channel Estimation in Near-Field Holographic MIMO

W Yu, H He, X Yu, S Song, J Zhang… - IEEE Journal of …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Holographic MIMO (HMIMO) is being increasingly recognized as a key enabling technology
for 6G wireless systems through the deployment of an extremely large number of antennas …

Next Generation Advanced Transceiver Technologies for 6G

C You, Y Cai, Y Liu, M Di Renzo, TM Duman… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
To accommodate new applications such as extended reality, fully autonomous vehicular
networks and the metaverse, next generation wireless networks are going to be subject to …

Dynamic MIMO architecture design for near-field communications

Z Zhang, Y Liu, Z Wang, J Chen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A novel dynamic hybrid beamforming architecture is proposed to achieve the spatial
multiplexing-power consumption tradeoff for near-field multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) …

Integrated Sensing, Communication, and Powering (ISCAP): Towards Multi-functional 6G Wireless Networks

Y Chen, Z Ren, J Xu, Y Zeng, DWK Ng… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
This article presents a novel multi-functional system for a sixth-generation (6G) wireless
network with integrated sensing, communication, and powering (ISCAP), which unifies …

Cramer-rao bounds for near-field sensing: A generic modular architecture

C Meng, D Ma, X Chen, Z Feng… - IEEE Wireless …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A generic modular array architecture is proposed, featuring uniform/non-uniform subarray
layouts that allows for flexible deployment. The bistatic near-field sensing system is …