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 …

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 …

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 …

SWIPT in mixed near-and far-field channels: Joint beam scheduling and power allocation

Y Zhang, C You - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Extremely large-scale array (XL-array) has emerged as a promising technology to enhance
the spectrum efficiency and spatial resolution in future wireless networks by exploiting …

Near-field beam management for extremely large-scale array communications

C You, Y Zhang, C Wu, Y Zeng, B Zheng… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Extremely large-scale arrays (XL-arrays) have emerged as a promising technology to
achieve super-high spectral efficiency and spatial resolution in future wireless systems. The …

Near-field beam training: Joint angle and range estimation with DFT codebook

X Wu, C You, J Li, Y Zhang - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Prior works on near-field beam training have mostly assumed dedicated polar-domain
codebook and on-grid range estimation, which, however, may suffer long training overhead …

Reconfigurable intelligent surface-aided near-field communications for 6G: Opportunities and challenges

X Mu, J Xu, Y Liu, L Hanzo - IEEE Vehicular Technology …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided near-field communications are investigated.
First, the necessity of investigating RIS-aided near-field communications and the …

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 …

RIS-aided near-field MIMO communications: Codebook and beam training design

S Lv, Y Liu, X Xu, A Nallanathan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Downlink reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted multi-input-multi-output (MIMO)
systems are considered with far-field, near-field, and hybrid-far-near-field channels …

Triple-Refined Hybrid-Field Beam Training for mmWave Extremely Large-Scale MIMO

K Chen, C Qi, OA Dobre, GY Li - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates beam training for extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-
output systems. By considering both the near field and far field, a triple-refined hybrid-field …