An overview of signal processing techniques for RIS/IRS-aided wireless systems

C Pan, G Zhou, K Zhi, S Hong, T Wu… - IEEE Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the past as well as present wireless communication systems, the wireless propagation
environment is regarded as an uncontrollable black box that impairs the received signal …

Holographic MIMO communications: Theoretical foundations, enabling technologies, and future directions

T Gong, P Gavriilidis, R Ji, C Huang… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Future wireless systems are envisioned to create an endogenously holography-capable,
intelligent, and programmable radio propagation environment, that will offer unprecedented …

Near-field MIMO communications for 6G: Fundamentals, challenges, potentials, and future directions

M Cui, Z Wu, Y Lu, X Wei, L Dai - IEEE Communications …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Extremely large-scale antenna array (ELAA) is a common feature of several key candidate
technologies for sixth generation (6G) mobile networks, such as ultra-massive multiple-input …

5G-advanced toward 6G: Past, present, and future

W Chen, X Lin, J Lee, A Toskala, S Sun… - IEEE Journal on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Since the start of 5G work in 3GPP in early 2016, tremendous progress has been made in
both standardization and commercial deployments. 3GPP is now entering the second phase …

Near-field communications: A tutorial review

Y Liu, Z Wang, J Xu, C Ouyang, X Mu… - IEEE Open Journal of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Extremely large-scale antenna arrays, tremendously high frequencies, and new types of
antennas are three clear trends in multi-antenna technology for supporting the sixth …

A tutorial on extremely large-scale MIMO for 6G: Fundamentals, signal processing, and applications

Z Wang, J Zhang, H Du, D Niyato, S Cui… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Extremely large-scale multiple-input-multiple-output (XL-MIMO), which offers vast spatial
degrees of freedom, has emerged as a potentially pivotal enabling technology for the sixth …

A tutorial on near-field XL-MIMO communications towards 6G

H Lu, Y Zeng, C You, Y Han, J Zhang… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) is a promising technology for
the sixth-generation (6G) mobile communication networks. By significantly boosting the …

Multiple access for near-field communications: SDMA or LDMA?

Z Wu, L Dai - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Spatial division multiple access (SDMA) is essential to improve the spectrum efficiency for
multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications. The classical SDMA for …

6G wireless communications: From far-field beam steering to near-field beam focusing

H Zhang, N Shlezinger, F Guidi… - IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
6G networks will be required to support higher data rates, improved energy efficiency, lower
latency, and more diverse users compared with 5G systems. To meet these requirements …

Fast near-field beam training for extremely large-scale array

Y Zhang, X Wu, C You - IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we study efficient near-field beam training design for the extremely large-scale
array (XL-array) communication systems. Compared with the conventional far-field beam …