Towards 6G wireless communication networks: Vision, enabling technologies, and new paradigm shifts

X You, CX Wang, J Huang, X Gao, Z Zhang… - Science China …, 2021 - Springer
The fifth generation (5G) wireless communication networks are being deployed worldwide
from 2020 and more capabilities are in the process of being standardized, such as mass …

A contemporary survey on free space optical communication: Potentials, technical challenges, recent advances and research direction

A Jahid, MH Alsharif, TJ Hall - Journal of network and computer …, 2022 - Elsevier
Due to the unprecedented growth of high speed multimedia services and diversified
applications initiated from the massive connectivity of IoT devices, 5G and beyond 5G (B5G) …

A large-scale microelectromechanical-systems-based silicon photonics LiDAR

X Zhang, K Kwon, J Henriksson, J Luo, MC Wu - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Three-dimensional (3D) imaging sensors allow machines to perceive, map and
interact with the surrounding world. The size of light detection and ranging (LiDAR) devices …

A survey of free space optics (FSO) communication systems, links, and networks

SA Al-Gailani, MFM Salleh, AA Salem… - IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The next generation (NG) optical technologies will unveil certain unique features, namely
ultra-high data rate, broadband multiple services, scalable bandwidth, and flexible …

Outage probability and average BER of UAV-assisted dual-hop FSO communication with amplify-and-forward relaying

G Xu, N Zhang, M Xu, Z Xu, Q Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be harnessed as relay nodes in free-space optical
(FSO) communication systems to realize a flexible and cost-effective approach for delivering …

Future space networks: Toward the next giant leap for humankind

MY Abdelsadek, AU Chaudhry… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the unprecedented advances in satellite fabrication and deployment, innovative
communications and networking technologies, ambitious space projects and programs, and …

Coherent free-space optical communications: Opportunities and challenges

FP Guiomar, MA Fernandes, JL Nascimento… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
The ever-increasing data rate demand for wireless systems is pushing the physical limits of
standalone radio-frequency communications, thus fostering the blooming of novel high …

Hybrid FSO/RF networks: A review of practical constraints, applications and challenges

SAH Mohsan, MA Khan, H Amjad - Optical Switching and Networking, 2023 - Elsevier
Radio frequency (RF) spectrum is highly occupied and adding further broadband channels
to fulfill the exiting user requirements has become difficult. Optical free-space …

Recent progress of air/water cross-boundary communications for underwater sensor networks: A review

H Luo, J Wang, F Bu, R Ruby, K Wu… - IEEE Sensors …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The next-generation of wireless network 6G is envisioned to achieve seamless global full
coverage, and provide ultra-high-speed and extreme low delay network to connect the …

Intelligent reflecting surface assisted free-space optical communications

V Jamali, H Ajam, M Najafi, B Schmauss… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Free-space optical (FSO) systems are able to offer the high data-rate, secure, and cost-
efficient communication links required for applications such as wireless front-and …