On the road to 6G: Visions, requirements, key technologies, and testbeds

CX Wang, X You, X Gao, X Zhu, Z Li… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fifth generation (5G) mobile communication systems have entered the stage of commercial
deployment, providing users with new services, improved user experiences as well as a host …

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 …

Holographic MIMO communications: Theoretical foundations, enabling technologies, and future directions

T Gong, P Gavriilidis, R Ji, C Huang… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Future wireless systems are envisioned to create an endogenously holography-capable,
intelligent, and programmable radio propagation environment, that will offer unprecedented …

A survey of UAV-based data collection: Challenges, solutions and future perspectives

K Messaoudi, OS Oubbati, A Rachedi, A Lakas… - Journal of network and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Internet of Things (IoT) generates unlimited data, which should be collected and
forwarded towards a central controller (CC) for further processing and decision-making …

An overview of signal processing techniques for RIS/IRS-aided wireless systems

C Pan, G Zhou, K Zhi, S Hong, T Wu… - IEEE Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the past as well as present wireless communication systems, the wireless propagation
environment is regarded as an uncontrollable black box that impairs the received signal …

A survey on channel estimation and practical passive beamforming design for intelligent reflecting surface aided wireless communications

B Zheng, C You, W Mei, R Zhang - … Communications Surveys & …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a key enabling technology to realize
smart and reconfigurable radio environment for wireless communications, by digitally …

Intelligent surfaces empowered wireless network: Recent advances and the road to 6G

Q Wu, B Zheng, C You, L Zhu, K Shen… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intelligent surfaces (ISs) have emerged as a key technology to empower a wide range of
appealing applications for wireless networks, due to their low cost, high energy efficiency …

A survey on STAR-RIS: Use cases, recent advances, and future research challenges

M Ahmed, A Wahid, SS Laique… - IEEE Internet of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The recent development of metasurfaces, which may enable several use cases by modifying
the propagation environment, is anticipated to substantially affect the performance of sixth …

Evolution of NOMA toward next generation multiple access (NGMA) for 6G

Y Liu, S Zhang, X Mu, Z Ding, R Schober… - IEEE Journal on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the explosive growth in the number of wireless devices and diverse wireless
services, such as virtual/augmented reality and Internet-of-Everything, next generation …

Cell-free massive MIMO: A survey

S Elhoushy, M Ibrahim… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Towards a fully connected intelligent digital world, 5G and beyond networks experience a
new era of Internet of intelligence with connected people and things. This new era brings …