Advanced Massive MIMO Antenna Arrays, Metasurfaces and Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for Sensing, Localization, and Wireless Communications: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Communications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 October 2025 | Viewed by 586
Special Issue Editors
Interests: periodic structures; millimeter-wave antennas; beam-scanning antennas
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Interests: MIMO antennas; reconfigurable intelligent surfaces; satcom antennas; millimeter-wave antennas
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Interests: microwave/millimeter-wave antennas and circuits, especially in antennas based on characteristic mode theory, MIMO antennas, electromagnetic metamaterial and its applications
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the complex electromagnetic environment and increasing demand on communication capacity, some different technologies have been proposed and studied to fulfill the severe requirements. Among them, the massive MIMO antenna array is a promising technology to increase the channel capacity by leveraging multiple antenna elements to receive and transmit electromagnetic waves. On the other hand, massive MIMO antenna arrays can further adapt to the time-varying environment at millimeter-wave bands via beamforming. Very recently, metasurfaces and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces have been extensively studied as promising and exciting technologies for the evolved 5G and upcoming 6G wireless communications. Metasurfaces and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces comprise a plethora of subwavelength unit cells. The behavior of the unit cell (e.g., phase, polarization, and amplitude) can be flexibly controlled. As a result, metasurfaces and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces can manipulate the performance of the electromagnetic waves impinging on them, converting the unfavorable electromagnetic environment to a favorable one for high-quality and high-efficiency sensing, location, and wireless communications.
This Special Issue is being launched with the aim of collecting recent research on advanced massive MIMO antenna arrays, metasurfaces, and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces for sensing, location, and wireless communications.
Authors are kindly invited to submit their contributions to this Special Issue on topics including, but not limited to, the following:
- Innovative theories and approaches for large communication capacity;
- Massive MIMO antenna arrays;
- Metasurfaces;
- Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces;
- Smart environment;
- Beamforming technology;
- New theories and algorithms for accurate sensing and location;
- New applications of materials and new materials for wave manipulation.
Dr. Peng Mei
Prof. Dr. Shuai Zhang
Dr. Liying Nie
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- antenna arrays
- decoupling technology
- metasurface reconfigurable intelligent surface
- millimeter-wave communications
- sensing and location
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