The commercial fifth-generation (5G) wireless communications networks have already been
deployed with the aim of providing high data rates. However, the rapid growth in the number …

Densification of network base stations is indispensable to achieve the stringent Quality of
Service (QoS) requirements of future mobile networks. However, with a dense deployment of …

The thriving of artificial intelligence (AI) applications is driving the further evolution of
wireless networks. It has been envisioned that 6G will be transformative and will …

Imagine a coverage area where each mobile device is communicating with a preferred set of
wireless access points (among many) that are selected based on its needs and cooperate to …

Extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) is a promising technology for
the sixth-generation (6G) mobile communication networks. By significantly boosting the …

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) constitute a disruptive wireless communication
technique capable of creating a controllable propagation environment. In this paper, we …

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have found numerous applications and are expected to
bring fertile business opportunities in the next decade. Among various enabling …

Imagine a coverage area with many wireless access points that cooperate to jointly serve
the users, instead of creating autonomous cells. Such a cell-free network operation can …

Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) is no longer a “wild” or “promising” concept
for future cellular networks—in 2018 it became a reality. Base stations (BSs) with 64 fully …

Artificial intelligence (AI) has achieved remarkable breakthroughs in a wide range of fields,
ranging from speech processing, image classification to drug discovery. This is driven by the …