6G wireless communications networks: A comprehensive survey

M Alsabah, MA Naser, BM Mahmmod… - Ieee …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Cell-free massive MIMO: A survey

S Elhoushy, M Ibrahim… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Towards a fully connected intelligent digital world, 5G and beyond networks experience a
new era of Internet of intelligence with connected people and things. This new era brings …

Foundations of user-centric cell-free massive MIMO

ÖT Demir, E Björnson… - Foundations and Trends …, 2021 - nowpublishers.com
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 …

Towards 6G wireless communication networks: Vision, enabling technologies, and new paradigm shifts

X You, CX Wang, J Huang, X Gao, Z Zhang… - Science China …, 2021 - Springer
The fifth generation (5G) wireless communication networks are being deployed worldwide
from 2020 and more capabilities are in the process of being standardized, such as mass …

A tutorial on extremely large-scale MIMO for 6G: Fundamentals, signal processing, and applications

Z Wang, J Zhang, H Du, D Niyato, S Cui… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Extremely large-scale multiple-input-multiple-output (XL-MIMO), which offers vast spatial
degrees of freedom, has emerged as a potentially pivotal enabling technology for the sixth …

What will the future of UAV cellular communications be? A flight from 5G to 6G

G Geraci, A Garcia-Rodriguez, MM Azari… - … surveys & tutorials, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
What will the future of UAV cellular communications be? In this tutorial article, we address
such a compelling yet difficult question by embarking on a journey from 5G to 6G and …

User-centric cell-free massive MIMO networks: A survey of opportunities, challenges and solutions

HA Ammar, R Adve, S Shahbazpanahi… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

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 …

Scalable cell-free massive MIMO systems

E Björnson, L Sanguinetti - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 is a reality—What is next?: Five promising research directions for antenna arrays

E Björnson, L Sanguinetti, H Wymeersch… - Digital Signal …, 2019 - Elsevier
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 …