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 …

Channel estimation for extremely large-scale MIMO: Far-field or near-field?

M Cui, L Dai - IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Extremely large-scale multiple-input-multiple-output (XL-MIMO) is promising to meet the
high rate requirements for future 6G. To realize efficient precoding, accurate channel state …

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 …

Communicating with extremely large-scale array/surface: Unified modeling and performance analysis

H Lu, Y Zeng - IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wireless communications with extremely large-scale array (XL-array) correspond to systems
whose antenna sizes are so large that conventional modeling assumptions, such as uniform …

Near-field rainbow: Wideband beam training for XL-MIMO

M Cui, L Dai, Z Wang, S Zhou… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wideband extremely large-scale multiple-input-multiple-output (XL-MIMO) plays an
important role in boosting the data rate for 6G networks. Because of the huge bandwidth and …

Non-stationarities in extra-large-scale massive MIMO

E De Carvalho, A Ali, A Amiri… - IEEE Wireless …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Massive MIMO, a key technology for increasing area spectral efficiency in cellular systems,
was developed assuming moderately sized apertures. In this article, we argue that massive …

Channel estimation for extremely large-scale massive MIMO systems

Y Han, S **, CK Wen, X Ma - IEEE Wireless Communications …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Extremely large-scale massive multiple-input multiple-output has shown considerable
potential in future mobile communications. However, the use of extremely large aperture …

Near-field wideband beamforming for extremely large antenna arrays

M Cui, L Dai - IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The natural integration of extremely large antenna arrays (ELAAs) and terahertz (THz)
communications can potentially establish Tbps data links for 6G networks. However, due to …

Near-field sparse channel representation and estimation in 6G wireless communications

X Zhang, H Zhang, YC Eldar - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The employment of extremely large antenna arrays and high-frequency signaling makes
future 6G wireless communications likely to operate in the near-field region. In this case, the …

Beam squint assisted user localization in near-field integrated sensing and communications systems

H Luo, F Gao, W Yuan, S Zhang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has been regarded as a key technology for
6G wireless communications, in which large-scale multiple input and multiple output (MIMO) …