6G wireless communications networks: A comprehensive survey

M Alsabah, MA Naser, BM Mahmmod… - Ieee …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The commercial fifth-generation (5G) wireless communications networks have already been
deployed with the aim of providing high data rates. However, the rapid growth in the number …

User-centric cell-free massive MIMO networks: A survey of opportunities, challenges and solutions

HA Ammar, R Adve, S Shahbazpanahi… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Densification of network base stations is indispensable to achieve the stringent Quality of
Service (QoS) requirements of future mobile networks. However, with a dense deployment of …

Foundations of user-centric cell-free massive MIMO

ÖT Demir, E Björnson… - Foundations and Trends …, 2021 - nowpublishers.com
Imagine a coverage area where each mobile device is communicating with a preferred set of
wireless access points (among many) that are selected based on its needs and cooperate to …

6G and beyond: The future of wireless communications systems

IF Akyildiz, A Kak, S Nie - IEEE access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
6G and beyond will fulfill the requirements of a fully connected world and provide ubiquitous
wireless connectivity for all. Transformative solutions are expected to drive the surge for …

Prospective multiple antenna technologies for beyond 5G

J Zhang, E Björnson, M Matthaiou… - IEEE Journal on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multiple antenna technologies have attracted much research interest for several decades
and have gradually made their way into mainstream communication systems. Two main …

Scalable cell-free massive MIMO systems

E Björnson, L Sanguinetti - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Imagine a coverage area with many wireless access points that cooperate to jointly serve
the users, instead of creating autonomous cells. Such a cell-free network operation can …

Making cell-free massive MIMO competitive with MMSE processing and centralized implementation

E Björnson, L Sanguinetti - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cell-free Massive MIMO is considered as a promising technology for satisfying the
increasing number of users and high rate expectations in beyond-5G networks. The key idea …

Massive MIMO is a reality—What is next?: Five promising research directions for antenna arrays

E Björnson, L Sanguinetti, H Wymeersch… - Digital Signal …, 2019 - Elsevier
Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) is no longer a “wild” or “promising” concept
for future cellular networks—in 2018 it became a reality. Base stations (BSs) with 64 fully …

Massive MIMO networks: Spectral, energy, and hardware efficiency

E Björnson, J Hoydis… - Foundations and Trends® …, 2017 - nowpublishers.com
Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is one of the most promising technologies for
the next generation of wireless communication networks because it has the potential to …

Ubiquitous cell-free massive MIMO communications

G Interdonato, E Björnson, H Quoc Ngo… - EURASIP Journal on …, 2019 - Springer
Since the first cellular networks were trialled in the 1970s, we have witnessed an incredible
wireless revolution. From 1G to 4G, the massive traffic growth has been managed by a …