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In this correspondence, we propose a new receiver design for high-mobility orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) downlink transmissions with a large-scale antenna array. The downlink signal experiences the challenging fast…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-19 Wei Guo , Weile Zhang , Pengcheng Mu , Feifei Gao

This study proposes an index modulation (IM) technique for affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) signals and examines its communication and sensing performance toward integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems. The power…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Murat Temiz , Christos Masouros

This paper introduces a secure affine frequency division multiplexing (SE-AFDM) for wireless communication systems to enhance communication security. Besides configuring the parameter c1 to obtain communication reliability under doubly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-24 Ping Wang , Zulin Wang , Yuanfang Ma , Xiaosi Tian , Yuanhan Ni

Channel models are crucial for theoretical analysis, performance evaluation, and deployment of wireless communication systems. Traditional channel sounding systems are insufficient for handling the dynamic changes of channels in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Yu Zhou , Chao Zou , Nanhao Zhou , Yanqun Tang , Xiaoying Zhang , Haoran Yin , Xiaoran Liu , Ruisi He , Pan Tang , Weijie Yuan , Yong Zeng

Affine Frequency Division Multiplexing (AFDM) has emerged as a promising chirp-based multicarrier technology for high-speed communication systems. To fully exploit the diversity gain offered by AFDM, accurate channel estimation is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Ruizhe Wang , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Haisu Wu , Jiangzhou Wang

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) based low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite communication system suffers from severe Doppler shifts, while {the Doppler-resilient affine frequency-division multiplexing (AFDM) transmission suffers…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-15 Shuntian Tang , Xiaomei Wu , Xinyi Wang , Le Zhao , Guang Yang , Zilong Liu , Fan Liu , Zesong Fei

Affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) has recently emerged as a promising waveform for high-mobility communications due to its resilience to Doppler effects and its advantages for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC). AFDM…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-15 Hengxuan Liu , Vincent Savaux , Arman Farhang

Affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) is a promising chirp-assisted multicarrier waveform for future high-mobility communications. This paper is devoted to enhanced receiver design for multiple input and multiple output AFDM…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-26 Qu Luo , Jing Zhu , Zilong Liu , Yanqun Tang , Pei Xiao , Gaojie Chen , Jia Shi

The sixth generation (6G) of mobile communications and beyond is expected to enable advanced functionalities, such as integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), while involving diverse terminal/user equipment types from terrestrial to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Yujie Liu , Yong Liang Guan , David González G. , Halim Yanikomeroglu

The artificial noise (AN) aided multi-beam directional modulation (DM) technology is capable of wireless physical layer secure (PLS) transmissions for multiple desired receivers in free space. The application of AN, however, makes it less…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-14 Qian Cheng , Vincent Fusco , Jiang Zhu , Shilian Wang , Fanggang Wang

We propose a multicarrier chirp-division multiplexing (MCDM) system in which orthogonal chirp waveforms are utilized as frequency subcarriers. Orthogonal characteristics of chirp subcarriers are analyzed in respect to cross-correlation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-18 Song-Wen Huang , Dimitris A. Pados

We consider application of the discrete Fourier transform-spread orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (DFT-spread OFDM) technique to high-speed fiber optic communications. The DFT-spread OFDM is a form of single-carrier technique that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-03-01 Fanggang Wang , Xiaodong Wang

Affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) is a strong candidate for the sixth-generation wireless network thanks to its strong resilience to delay-Doppler spreads. In this letter, we investigate the error performance of coded AFDM…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Haoran Yin

Numerous multicarrier modulation schemes have been proposed recently to enhance the performance in narrowband doubly dispersive channels for emerging high-mobility applications. However, the ultra-reliable modulation framework in wideband…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-20 Xuehan Wang , Jinhong Yuan , Jintao Wang , Zhi Sun , Jinxing Hao

We consider a multicarrier chirp-based waveform for joint radar and communication (JRC) systems and derive its time discrete periodic ambiguity function (AF). An advantage of the waveform is that it includes a set of waveform parameters…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Fredrik Berggren , Branislav M. Popovic

This paper presents a unified and system-agnostic analysis of the ambiguity function (AF) characteristics of four representative multicarrier waveforms, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), orthogonal time frequency space…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-14 Hyeon Seok Rou , Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu

This paper proposes a novel multi-carrier modulation framework for high-mobility communication scenarios. Our key idea lies in spreading data symbols across the delay-Doppler (DD) domain through orthogonal chirp-Zak transform (CZT). To…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Chaoyuan Bai , Pingzhi Fan , Zhengchun Zhou , Zilong Liu

On the heels of orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation, the recently discovered affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) is a promising waveform for the sixth-generation wireless network. In this paper, we study the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Haoran Yin , Xizhang Wei , Yanqun Tang , Kai Yang

This paper studies the affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM)-empowered sparse code multiple access (SCMA) system, referred to as AFDM-SCMA, for supporting massive connectivity in high-mobility environments. First, by placing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Qu Luo , Pei Xiao , Zilong Liu , Ziwei Wan , Thomos Nikolaos , Zhen Gao , Ziming He

Affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) is an emerging multicarrier waveform that offers a potential solution for achieving reliable communications over time-varying channels. This paper proposes two maximum-likelihood (ML) estimators…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Yuankun Tang , Anjie Zhang , Miaowen Wen , Yu Huang , Fei Ji , Jinming Wen