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 …

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 …

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 …

Five facets of 6G: Research challenges and opportunities

LH Shen, KT Feng, L Hanzo - ACM Computing Surveys, 2023 - dl.acm.org
While the fifth-generation systems are being rolled out across the globe, researchers have
turned their attention to the exploration of radical next-generation solutions. At this early …

RIS-aided cell-free massive MIMO systems for 6G: Fundamentals, system design, and applications

E Shi, J Zhang, H Du, B Ai, C Yuen… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An introduction of intelligent interconnectivity for people and things has posed higher
demands and more challenges for sixth-generation (6G) networks, such as high spectral …

Intelligent reflecting surface-aided wireless communications: A tutorial

Q Wu, S Zhang, B Zheng, C You… - IEEE transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is an enabling technology to engineer the radio signal
propagation in wireless networks. By smartly tuning the signal reflection via a large number …

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces: Principles and opportunities

Y Liu, X Liu, X Mu, T Hou, J Xu… - … surveys & tutorials, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), also known as intelligent reflecting surfaces
(IRSs), or large intelligent surfaces (LISs), 1 have received significant attention for their …

Smart radio environments empowered by reconfigurable intelligent surfaces: How it works, state of research, and the road ahead

M Di Renzo, A Zappone, M Debbah… - IEEE journal on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are an emerging transmission technology for
application to wireless communications. RISs can be realized in different ways, which …

A survey on model-based, heuristic, and machine learning optimization approaches in RIS-aided wireless networks

H Zhou, M Erol-Kantarci, Y Liu… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have received considerable attention as a key
enabler for envisioned 6G networks, for the purpose of improving the network capacity …

Grant-free non-orthogonal multiple access for IoT: A survey

MB Shahab, R Abbas… - … surveys & tutorials, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Massive machine-type communications (mMTC) is one of the main three focus areas in the
5th generation (5G) of wireless communications technologies to enable connectivity of a …