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 …

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 …

Cell-free massive MIMO versus small cells

HQ Ngo, A Ashikhmin, H Yang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A Cell-Free Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) system comprises a very large
number of distributed access points (APs), which simultaneously serve a much smaller …

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 …

A comprehensive survey of 6G wireless communications

Y Zhao, W Zhai, J Zhao, T Zhang, S Sun… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
While fifth-generation (5G) communications are being rolled out worldwide, sixth-generation
(6G) communications have attracted much attention from both the industry and the …

Precoding and power optimization in cell-free massive MIMO systems

E Nayebi, A Ashikhmin, TL Marzetta… - IEEE Transactions …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cell-free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) comprises a large number of
distributed low-cost low-power single antenna access points (APs) connected to a network …

Massive MIMO: an introduction

TL Marzetta - Bell Labs Technical Journal, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Demand for wireless throughput, both mobile and fixed, will always increase. One can
anticipate that, in five or ten years, millions of augmented reality users in a large city will …

[BOOK][B] Foundations of MIMO communication

RW Heath Jr, A Lozano - 2018 - books.google.com
Understand the fundamentals of wireless and MIMO communication with this accessible and
comprehensive text. Viewing the subject through an information theory lens, but also …

Massive MIMO for maximal spectral efficiency: How many users and pilots should be allocated?

E Björnson, EG Larsson… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Massive MIMO is a promising technique for increasing the spectral efficiency (SE) of cellular
networks, by deploying antenna arrays with hundreds or thousands of active elements at the …

No downlink pilots are needed in TDD massive MIMO

HQ Ngo, EG Larsson - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider the Massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output downlink with maximum-ratio and
zero-forcing processing and time-division duplex operation. To decode, the users must know …