arxiveess.SP2026-07-31
Near-Field Communications with Grating Lobes for Quasi-Distributed Arrays: From ULA to MRA
Mingyuan Zhou, Zhuo Xu, Linglong Dai
Extremely large-scale antenna array (ELAA) has emerged as a common feature of many key candidate technologies for 6G, where the near-field characteristics become dominant. The quasi-distributed array can further extend the near-field range and utilize the near-field benefits to i…