Cell-free massive MIMO: A survey

S Elhoushy, M Ibrahim… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Towards a fully connected intelligent digital world, 5G and beyond networks experience a
new era of Internet of intelligence with connected people and things. This new era brings …

User-centric cell-free massive MIMO networks: A survey of opportunities, challenges and solutions

HA Ammar, R Adve, S Shahbazpanahi… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Densification of network base stations is indispensable to achieve the stringent Quality of
Service (QoS) requirements of future mobile networks. However, with a dense deployment of …

[HTML][HTML] Spectrum sensing for cognitive radio: Recent advances and future challenge

A Nasser, H Al Haj Hassan, J Abou Chaaya… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Spectrum Sensing (SS) plays an essential role in Cognitive Radio (CR) networks to
diagnose the availability of frequency resources. In this paper, we aim to provide an in-depth …

Recent progress in reconfigurable and intelligent metasurfaces: A comprehensive review of tuning mechanisms, hardware designs, and applications

Y Saifullah, Y He, A Boag, GM Yang, F Xu - Advanced Science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Intelligent metasurfaces have gained significant importance in recent years due to their
ability to dynamically manipulate electromagnetic (EM) waves. Their multifunctional …

Beyond cell-free MIMO: Energy efficient reconfigurable intelligent surface aided cell-free MIMO communications

Y Zhang, B Di, H Zhang, J Lin, C Xu… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cell-free systems can effectively eliminate the inter-cell interference by enabling multiple
base stations (BSs) to cooperatively serve users without cell boundaries at the expense of …

MIMO evolution beyond 5G through reconfigurable intelligent surfaces and fluid antenna systems

A Shojaeifard, KK Wong, KF Tong, Z Chu… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With massive deployment, multiple-input–multiple-output (MIMO) systems continue to take
mobile communications to new heights, but the ever-increasing demands mean that there is …

Multiple RISs assisted cell-free networks with two-timescale CSI: Performance analysis and system design

X Gan, C Zhong, C Huang, Z Yang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) can be employed in a cell-free system to create
favorable propagation conditions from base stations (BSs) to users via configurable …

Performance analysis and user association optimization for wireless network aided by multiple intelligent reflecting surfaces

W Mei, R Zhang - IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is deemed as a promising solution to improve the spectral
and energy efficiency of wireless communications cost-effectively. In this paper, we consider …

Configuring intelligent reflecting surface with performance guarantees: Blind beamforming

S Ren, K Shen, Y Zhang, X Li, X Chen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a blind beamforming strategy for intelligent reflecting surface (IRS),
aiming to boost the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) by coordinating phase shifts across the …

Cramér-rao bound minimization for IRS-enabled multiuser integrated sensing and communications

X Song, X Qin, J Xu, R Zhang - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) enabled multiuser integrated
sensing and communications (ISAC) system, which consists of one multi-antenna base …