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Prospective Multiple Antenna Technologies for Beyond 5G
Beijing Jiaotong Univ, Sch Elect & Informat Engn, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China..ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2434-4329
Linköping Univ, Dept Elect Engn ISY, S-58183 Linköping, Sweden..ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5954-434x
Queens Univ Belfast, Inst Elect Commun & Informat Technol ECIT, Belfast BT3 9DT, Antrim, North Ireland..ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9235-7741
Univ New South Wales, Sch Elect Engn & Telecommun, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia..ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6400-712X
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2020 (English)In: IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, ISSN 0733-8716, E-ISSN 1558-0008, Vol. 38, no 8, p. 1637-1660Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Multiple antenna technologies have attracted much research interest for several decades and have gradually made their way into mainstream communication systems. Two main benefits are adaptive beamforming gains and spatial multiplexing, leading to high data rates per user and per cell, especially when large antenna arrays are adopted. Since multiple antenna technology has become a key component of the fifth-generation (5G) networks, it is time for the research community to look for new multiple antenna technologies to meet the immensely higher data rate, reliability, and traffic demands in the beyond 5G era. Radically new approaches are required to achieve orders-of-magnitude improvements in these metrics. There will be large technical challenges, many of which are yet to be identified. In this paper, we survey three new multiple antenna technologies that can play key roles in beyond 5G networks: cell-free massive MIMO, beamspace massive MIMO, and intelligent reflecting surfaces. For each of these technologies, we present the fundamental motivation, key characteristics, recent technical progresses, and provide our perspectives for future research directions. The paper is not meant to be a survey/tutorial of a mature subject, but rather serve as a catalyst to encourage more research and experiments in these multiple antenna technologies.

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2020. Vol. 38, no 8, p. 1637-1660
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Massive MIMO, 5G mobile communication, Antennas, Cellular networks, Computer architecture, Handover, Beyond 5G, cell-free massive MIMO, beamspace, intelligent reflecting surface
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Telecommunications Signal Processing
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-296055DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2020.3000826ISI: 000562047900001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85086704180OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-296055DiVA, id: diva2:1663815
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Available from: 2022-06-02 Created: 2022-06-02 Last updated: 2022-06-25Bibliographically approved

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