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 …

Near-field integrated sensing and communication: Opportunities and challenges

J Cong, C You, J Li, L Chen, B Zheng, Y Liu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
With the extremely large-scale array XL-array deployed in future wireless systems, wireless
communication and sensing are expected to operate in the radiative near-field region, which …

Near-field channel estimation for extremely large-scale reconfigurable intelligent surface (XL-RIS)-aided wideband mmwave systems

S Yang, C Xie, W Lyu, B Ning… - IEEE Journal on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Near-field communications present new opportunities over near-field channels, however,
the spherical wavefront propagation makes near-field signal processing challenging. In this …

Variational bayesian learning based localization and channel reconstruction in RIS-aided systems

Y Li, Y Luo, X Wu, Z Shi, S Ma… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The emerging immersive and autonomous services have posed stringent requirements on
both communications and localization. By considering the great potential of reconfigurable …

Positioning using wireless networks: Applications, recent progress and future challenges

Y Yang, M Chen, Y Blankenship, J Lee… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Positioning has recently received considerable attention as a key enabler in emerging
applications such as extended reality, unmanned aerial vehicles and smart environments …

Near-field localization and channel reconstruction for ELAA systems

Z Lu, Y Han, S Jin, M Matthaiou - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, an efficient near-field channel reconstruction and user equipment (UE)
localization scheme is proposed for extremely large antenna array (ELAA) systems using a …

Low-complexity channel estimation for extremely large-scale MIMO in near field

C Huang, J Xu, W Xu, X You, C Yuen… - IEEE Wireless …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The extremely large-scale massive multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) has the
potential to achieve boosted spectral efficiency and refined spatial resolution for future …

Wavefront Transformation-based Near-field Channel Prediction for Extremely Large Antenna Array with Mobility

W Li, H Yin, Z Qin, M Debbah - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses the mobility problem in extremely large antenna array (ELAA)
communication systems. In order to account for the performance loss caused by 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 …

Fingerprint-based mmWave positioning system aided by reconfigurable intelligent surface

T Wu, C Pan, Y Pan, H Ren… - IEEE Wireless …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising technique for millimeter wave
(mmWave) positioning systems. In this letter, we consider multiple mobile users (MUs) …