Massive MIMO Systems for 5G and beyond Networks
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Microwave and Wireless Communications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 September 2023) | Viewed by 1767
Special Issue Editors
Interests: wireless communications; remote sensing and radars; millimeter and terahertz waves; electromagnetic waves propagation
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Dear Colleagues,
The increasing demand for available and reliable wireless networks, transferring high-rate multimedia information in the presence fading and interferences calls for modern transmission and reception techniques, involving beamforming and smart antenna arrays. Today, multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) has become an integrated scheme in wireless communications for increasing channel capacity.
The Enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB) feature of the fifth-generation (5G) cellular communication standardization offers faster network connectivity with high throughput. In order to meet with this mission, new frequency bands are allocated, including in the millimeter wavelengths (MMW). Utilization of Massive MIMO and beamforming is considered for serving the expected increasing traffic.
Access to dynamic and sharing spectrum is one of the critical challenges in modern communication networks as the 5G-NR- HetNet, the next 6-Mobile-Generation, Wi-Fi 6 - 11.ax, and Wi-Fi 7. Dealing with multi-interference in the space, time and frequency domains, in parallel with the development of advance massive MIMO techniques including spatial- multiplexing, upload/download multi-user MIMO, and digital interference cancelation involves engineering complexity.
Massive MIMO techniques are calling for extensive research on Hybrid-Digital-beamforming, multi-layer decoding, multi-group–multi-user MIMO, Signal-Processing Algorithms, Soft-digital Interference Cancellation (SIC), MIMO-channel-estimation, and conventual-Massive-MIMO-techniques.
This Special Issue is aimed at addressing issues that are involved in the analysis, algorithms, design, and implementation of the different MIMO and beamforming techniques designated to improve wireless channel capacity in the presence of scattering, multipath and fading, and the immunity of the link to interferences. This includes:
- Indoor and outdoor propagation scenarios;
- Selective fading;
- Space, time and frequency diversity techniques;
- MIMO and Massive MIMO;
- Beamforming and spatial filtering (analog and digital);
- Interference cancellation;
- Antenna arrays;
- Millimeter and terahertz wave technology;
- Terrestrial networks;
- Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and Flying Ad hoc networks (FANET);
- Satellite communications;
- The sixth generation (6G) mobile network;
- Machine Learning methods for wireless networks.
Technical Program Committee Member:
Name: Avner Elgam
Email: Avnere@ariel.ac.il
Affiliation: Faculty of Engineering – Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Ariel University, Ariel 40700, Israel
Interests: MIMO and beamforming
Prof. Dr. Yosef Pinhasi
Prof. Dr. Yoram Haddad
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- MIMO
- massive MIMO
- 5G/6G
- multi-cell deployment
- multi-layer decoding
- massive-MIMO propagation channel estimation
- digital-interferences cancellation
- RAN intelligent controller (RIC)
- hybrid-digital beamforming
- tri-MIMO polarization
- UAV
