Near-field communications: A comprehensive survey

Y Liu, C Ouyang, Z Wang, J Xu, X Mu… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multiple-antenna technologies are evolving towards larger aperture sizes, extremely high
frequencies, and innovative antenna types. This evolution is fostering the emergence of near …

Continuous aperture array (CAPA)-based wireless communications: Capacity characterization

B Zhao, C Ouyang, X Zhang, Y Liu - arxiv preprint arxiv:2406.15056, 2024 - arxiv.org
The capacity limits of continuous-aperture array (CAPA)-based wireless communications are
characterized. To this end, an analytically tractable transmission framework is established …

Diversity and multiplexing for continuous aperture array (CAPA)-based communications

C Ouyang, Z Wang, X Zhang, Y Liu - arxiv preprint arxiv:2408.13948, 2024 - arxiv.org
The performance of multiplexing and diversity achieved by continuous aperture arrays
(CAPAs) over fading channels is analyzed. Angular-domain fading models are derived for …

Signal processing and learning for next generation multiple access in 6G

W Chen, Y Liu, H Jafarkhani, YC Eldar… - IEEE Journal of …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wireless communication systems to date primarily rely on the orthogonality of resources to
facilitate the design and implementation, from user access to data transmission. Emerging …

Multi-beam training for near-field communications in high-frequency bands

C Zhou, C You, Z Huang, S Shi, Y Gong… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
In this paper, we study efficient multi-beam training design for near-field communications to
reduce the beam training overhead of conventional single-beam training methods. In …

Near-field beam training with sparse DFT codebook

C Zhou, C Wu, C You, J Zhou… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Extremely large-scale arrays (XL-arrays) have emerged as one promising technology to
improve the spectral efficiency and spatial resolution in future sixth generation (6G) wireless …

On the performance of continuous aperture array (CAPA)-based wireless communications

C Ouyang, Y Liu, X Zhang - arxiv preprint arxiv:2405.16690, 2024 - arxiv.org
The performance of continuous aperture array (CAPA)-based wireless communications is
analyzed in an uplink scenario. An analytical framework is proposed to characterize uplink …

Cram\'er-Rao Bound Optimization for Near-Field Sensing with Continuous-Aperture Arrays

H Jiang, Z Wang, Y Liu, A Nallanathan - arxiv preprint arxiv:2412.15007, 2024 - arxiv.org
A Cram\'er-Rao bound (CRB) optimization framework for near-field sensing (NISE) with
continuous-aperture arrays (CAPAs) is proposed. In contrast to conventional spatially …

Near-Field Localization and Sensing with Large-Aperture Arrays: From Signal Modeling to Processing

Z Wang, P Ramezani, Y Liu, E Björnson - arxiv preprint arxiv:2406.10941, 2024 - arxiv.org
The signal processing community is currently witnessing a growing interest in near-field
signal processing, driven by the trend towards the use of large aperture arrays with high …

Physical Layer Security for Continuous-Aperture Array (CAPA) Systems

B Zhao, C Ouyang, X Zhang, Y Liu - arxiv preprint arxiv:2412.13748, 2024 - arxiv.org
A continuous-aperture array (CAPA)-based secure transmission framework is proposed to
enhance physical layer security. Continuous current distributions, or beamformers, are …