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A Low-Complexity Method for FFT-based OFDM Sensing

Signal Processing 2021-05-31 v1

Abstract

OFDM sensing is gaining increasing popularity in wideband radar applications as well as in joint communication and radar/radio sensing (JCAS). As JCAS will potentially be integrated into future mobile networks where OFDM is crucial, OFDM sensing is envisioned to be ubiquitously deployed. A fast Fourier transform (FFT) based OFDM sensing (FOS) method was proposed a decade ago and has been regarded as a de facto standard given its simplicity. In this article, we introduce an easy trick -- a pre-processing on target echo -- to further reduce the computational complexity of FOS without degrading key sensing performance. Underlying the trick is a newly disclosed feature of the target echo in OFDM sensing which, to the best of our knowledge, has not been effectively exploited yet.

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@article{arxiv.2105.13596,
  title  = {A Low-Complexity Method for FFT-based OFDM Sensing},
  author = {Kai Wu and J. Andrew Zhang and Xiaojing Huang and Y. Jay Guo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.13596},
  year   = {2021}
}

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10 pages, 4 pages; submitted for potential publication

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