Two-stage hierarchical beam training for near-field communications

C Wu, C You, Y Liu, L Chen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Extremely large-scale array (XL-array) has emerged as a promising technology to improve
the spectrum efficiency and spatial resolution of future wireless systems. However, the huge …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Enabling more users to benefit from near-field communications: From linear to circular array

Z Wu, M Cui, L Dai - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) for 5G is evolving into the extremely large-
scale antenna array (ELAA) to increase the spectrum efficiency by orders of magnitude for …

Beamfocusing optimization for near-field wideband multi-user communications

Z Wang, X Mu, Y Liu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.16861, 2023 - arxiv.org
A near-field wideband communication system is studied, wherein a base station (BS)
employs an extremely large-scale antenna array (ELAA) to serve multiple users situated …

Low-overhead beam training scheme for extremely large-scale RIS in near field

W Liu, C Pan, H Ren, F Shu, S Jin… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Extremely large-scale reconfigurable intelligent surface (XL-RIS) has recently been
proposed and is recognized as a promising technology that can further enhance the …

Near-field beam training based on deep learning for extremely large-scale MIMO

G Jiang, C Qi - IEEE Communications Letters, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) is considered as a key
technology for future wireless communications. For near-field beam training in XL-MIMO, 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 …

Near-field beam training in THz communications: the merits of uniform circular array

Y Xie, B Ning, L Li, Z Chen - IEEE Wireless Communications …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As the line-of-sight propagation component is dominant in Terahertz (THz) channels, beam
training is regarded as an efficient beamforming strategy for THz communications. In the …