During the last decade, wireless data services have had an incredible impact on people's lives in ways we could never have imagined. The number of mobile devices has increased exponentially and data traffic has almost doubled every year. Undoubtedly, the rate of growth will continue to be rapid with the explosive increase in demands for data rates, latency, massive connectivity, network reliability, and energy efficiency. In order to manage this level of growth and meet these requirements, the fifth-generation (5G) mobile communications network is envisioned as a revolutionary advancement combining various improvements to previous mobile generation networks and new technologies, including the use of millimeter wavebands (mm-wave), massive multiple-input multipleoutput (mMIMO) multi-beam antennas, network densification, dynamic Time Division Duplex (TDD) transmission, and new waveforms with mixed numerologies. New revolutionary features including terahertz (THz) communications and the integration of Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN) can further improve the performance and signal quality for future 6G networks. However, despite the inevitable benefits of all these key technologies, the heterogeneous and ultra-flexible structure of the 5G and beyond network brings non-orthogonality into the system and generates significant interference that needs to be handled carefully. Therefore, it is essential to design effective interference management schemes to mitigate severe and sometimes unpredictable interference in mobile networks. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive review of interference management in 5G and Beyond networks and discuss its future evolution. We start with a unified classification and a detailed explanation of the different types of interference and continue by presenting our taxonomy of existing interference management approaches. Then, after explaining interference measurement reports and signaling, we provide for each type of interference identified, an in-depth literature review and technical discussion of appropriate management schemes. We finish by discussing the main interference challenges that will be encountered in future 6G networks and by presenting insights on the suggested new interference management approaches, including useful guidelines for an AI-based solution. This review will provide a first-hand guide to the industry in determining the most relevant technology for interference management, and will also allow for consideration of future challenges and research directions.

翻译：过去十年间，无线数据服务以前所未有的方式深刻影响着人们的生活。移动设备数量呈指数级增长，数据流量几乎每年翻番。毋庸置疑，随着对数据速率、时延、海量连接、网络可靠性和能效的需求激增，这一增长势头将持续。为应对这一增长并满足上述需求，第五代（5G）移动通信网络被视为一项革命性进步，它融合了前代移动网络的多项改进与新技术，包括毫米波频段（mm-wave）的使用、大规模多输入多输出（mMIMO）多波束天线、网络致密化、动态时分双工（TDD）传输以及混合参数的新波形。太赫兹（THz）通信与非地面网络（NTN）集成等新兴革命性特性可进一步提升未来6G网络的性能与信号质量。然而，尽管这些关键技术带来了不可避免的益处，5G及未来网络的异构且超灵活结构引入了系统非正交性，并产生了需谨慎处理的显著干扰。因此，设计有效的干扰管理方案以缓解移动网络中严重且有时不可预测的干扰至关重要。本文对5G及未来网络中的干扰管理进行了全面综述，并探讨了其未来演进。我们首先对不同类型的干扰进行统一分类与详细解释，随后呈现了现有干扰管理方法的分类体系。在阐述干扰测量报告与信令后，针对所识别的每种干扰类型，我们提供了深入的文献综述与技术讨论，涵盖适当的管理方案。最后，我们探讨了未来6G网络将面临的主要干扰挑战，并提出了新型干扰管理方法的见解，包括基于AI的解决方案的有用指南。本综述将为行业提供确定最相关干扰管理技术的直接指南，同时有助于思考未来挑战与研究方向。