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 …

Near-field integrated sensing and communications

Z Wang, X Mu, Y Liu - IEEE Communications Letters, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A near-field integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) framework is proposed, which
introduces an additional distance dimension for both sensing and communications …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Cell-free XL-MIMO meets multi-agent reinforcement learning: Architectures, challenges, and future directions

Z Liu, J Zhang, Z Liu, H Du, Z Wang… - IEEE Wireless …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) and extremely large-scale MIMO
(XL-MIMO) are regarded as promising innovations for the forthcoming generation of wireless …

TTD configurations for near-field beamforming: Parallel, serial, or hybrid?

Z Wang, X Mu, Y Liu, R Schober - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
True-time delayers (TTDs) are popular components for hybrid beamforming architectures to
combat the spatial-wideband effect in wideband near-field communications. In this paper, a …

Toward beamfocusing-aided near-field communications: Research advances, potential, and challenges

J An, C Yuen, L Dai, M Di Renzo, M Debbah… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Next-generation mobile networks promise to support high throughput, massive connectivity,
and improved energy efficiency. To achieve these ambitious goals, extremely large-scale …