Intelligent omni-surfaces: Simultaneous refraction and reflection for full-dimensional wireless communications

H Zhang, B Di - IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The development of metasurfaces has unlocked various use cases in wireless
communication networks to improve performance by manipulating the propagation …

White paper on critical and massive machine type communication towards 6G

NH Mahmood, S Böcker, A Munari, F Clazzer… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
The society as a whole, and many vertical sectors in particular, is becoming increasingly
digitalized. Machine Type Communication (MTC), encompassing its massive and critical …

Metalocalization: Reconfigurable intelligent surface aided multi-user wireless indoor localization

H Zhang, H Zhang, B Di, K Bian… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The received signal strength (RSS) based technique is extensively utilized for localization in
the indoor environments. Since the RSS values of neighboring locations may be similar, the …

A survey of recent indoor localization scenarios and methodologies

T Yang, A Cabani, H Chafouk - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Recently, various novel scenarios have been studied for indoor localization. The trilateration
is known as a classic theoretical model of geometric-based indoor localization, with uniform …

A review of millimeter wave device-based localization and device-free sensing technologies and applications

A Shastri, N Valecha, E Bashirov… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The commercial availability of low-cost millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication and
radar devices is starting to improve the adoption of such technologies in consumer markets …

Positioning in 5G and 6G networks—A survey

F Mogyorósi, P Revisnyei, A Pašić, Z Papp, I Törös… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Determining the position of ourselves or our assets has always been important to humans.
Technology has helped us, from sextants to outdoor global positioning systems, but real …

Sionna: An open-source library for next-generation physical layer research

J Hoydis, S Cammerer, FA Aoudia, A Vem… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Sionna is a GPU-accelerated open-source library for link-level simulations based on
TensorFlow. It enables the rapid prototyping of complex communication system architectures …

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces for rich scattering wireless communications: Recent experiments, challenges, and opportunities

GC Alexandropoulos, N Shlezinger… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent advances in the fabrication and experimentation of reconfigurable intelligent
surfaces (RISs) have motivated the concept of the smart radio environment, according to …

A survey on the use of blockchain for future 6G: Technical aspects, use cases, challenges and research directions

A Kalla, C De Alwis, P Porambage, G Gür… - Journal of Industrial …, 2022 - Elsevier
While 5G is at the early deployment state around the globe, the research and industrial
communities have already started concentrating their efforts on formulating the overall 6G …

Toward ubiquitous sensing and localization with reconfigurable intelligent surfaces

H Zhang, B Di, K Bian, Z Han, HV Poor… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In future cellular systems, wireless localization and sensing functions will be built-in for
specific applications, eg, navigation, transportation, and healthcare, and to support flexible …