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Orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) is a two-dimensional modulation technique that uses the delay-Doppler (DD) domain and is a candidate for providing robust, high-capacity wireless communications for envisioned 6G and beyond networks.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-24 Burak Ahmet Ozden , Erdogan Aydin , Emir Aslandogan , Haci Ilhan , Ertugrul Basar , Miaowen Wen , Marco Di Renzo , Vincent Poor

Orthogonal Time Frequency Space ({OTFS}) modulation offers significant advantages over Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing ({OFDM}), particularly in high speed environments. Hence, we consider {OTFS} transmission over high-Doppler…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Xinyu Feng , Chao Zhang , Mohammed EL-Hajjar , Chao Xu , Lajos Hanzo

Orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation is a 2-dimensional (2D) modulation scheme designed in the delay-Doppler domain, unlike traditional modulation schemes which are designed in the time-frequency domain. Through a series of 2D…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-06 K. R. Murali , A. Chockalingam

Orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation is a promising solution to handle doubly-selective fading, but its channel estimation is a nontrivial task in terms of maximizing spectral efficiency. Conventional pilot assignment…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-25 Yuta Kanazawa , Hiroki Iimori , Chandan Pradhan , Szabolcs Malomsoky , Naoki Ishikawa

Orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation has emerged as a promising candidate to overcome the performance degradation of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), which are commonly encountered in high-mobility wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-02 Yushi Lei , Yusha Liu , Guanghui Liu , Lei Wan , Kun Yang

Orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation is a two-dimensional signaling technique that has recently emerged in the literature to tackle the time-varying (TV) wireless channels. OTFS deploys the Doppler-delay plane to multiplex the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Arman Farhang , Ahmad RezazadehReyhani , Linda E. Doyle , Behrouz Farhang-Boroujeny

In this paper, we propose time and frequency synchronization techniques for the uplink of multiuser orthogonal time frequency space (MU-OTFS) in high-mobility scenarios. We introduce a spectrally efficient and practical pilot pattern where…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-23 Mohsen Bayat , Sanoopkumar P. S. , Arman Farhang

A Cell-Free Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) system comprises a very large number of distributed access points (APs)which simultaneously serve a much smaller number of users over the same time/frequency resources based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-18 Hien Quoc Ngo , Alexei Ashikhmin , Hong Yang , Erik G. Larsson , Thomas L. Marzetta

Constrained by weak signal strength and significant inter-cell interference, users located at the cell edge in a cellular network suffer from inferior service quality. Recently, cell-free massive MIMO (CFmMIMO) has gained considerable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Wei Jiang , Hans Dieter Schotten

Orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation has been confirmed to provide significant performance advantages against Doppler in high-mobility scenarios. The core feature of OTFS is that the time-variant channel is converted into a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Haoyan Liu , Yanming Liu , Min Yang , Qiongjie Zhang

Sixth-generation (6G) communication systems are poised to accommodate high data-rate wireless communication services in highly dynamic channels, with applications including high-speed trains, unmanned aerial vehicles, and intelligent…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Murat Isik , Malvin Nkomo , Anup Das , Kapil R. Dandekar

This paper presents an analysis of the Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (OTFS) modulation scheme when applied to realistic vehicular channel situations. OTFS modulates symbols in delay-Doppler domain, hoping to exploit diversity in both. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-26 Thomas Blazek , Danilo Radovic

In this paper, we introduce a new 2D modulation scheme referred to as OTFS (Orthogonal Time Frequency & Space) that multiplexes information QAM symbols over new class of carrier waveforms that correspond to localized pulses in a signal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-09 Ronny Hadani , Anton Monk

Orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation has been proposed recently as a new waveform in the context of doubly-selective multi-path channels. This article proposes a novel pilot design that improves OTFS spectral efficiency (SE)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-20 Davide Bergamasco , Federico Clazzer , Andrea Munari , Paolo Casari

Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems show great potentials in low-mobility scenarios, due to cell boundary disappearance and strong macro diversity. However, the great Doppler frequency offset (DFO) leads to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Jiakang Zheng , Jiayi Zhang , Emil Björnson , Zhetao Li , Bo Ai

This paper proposes the orthogonal time frequency space-based code index modulation (OTFS-CIM) scheme, a novel wireless communication system that combines OTFS modulation, which enhances error performance in high-mobility Rayleigh channels,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Burak Ahmet Ozden , Erdogan Aydin , Emir Aslandogan , Haci Ilhan , Ertugrul Basar , Miaowen Wen , Marco Di Renzo

We consider the problem of degradation in performance of multi-carrier multi-user massive MIMO systems when channel induced Doppler spread is high. Recently, Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (OTFS) modulation has been shown to be robust to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Brijesh Chander Pandey , Saif Khan Mohammed , P. Raviteja , Yi Hong , Emanuele Viterbo

Over-the-air computation (AirComp), as a data aggregation method that can improve network efficiency by exploiting the superposition characteristics of wireless channels, has received much attention recently. Meanwhile, the orthogonal time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Dongkai Zhou , Jing Guo , Siqiang Wang , Zhong Zheng , Zesong Fei , Weijie Yuan , Xinyi Wang

In the 6G era, space-air-Ground integrated networks (SAGIN) are anticipated to deliver global coverage, necessitating support for a diverse array of emerging applications in high-mobility, hostile environments. Under such conditions,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Weijie Yuan , Shuangyang Li , Zhiqiang Wei , Yuanhao Cui , Jiamo Jiang , Haijun Zhang , Pingzhi Fan

High mobility environment leads to severe Doppler effects and poses serious challenges to the conventional physical layer based on the widely popular orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). The recent emergence of orthogonal time…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-14 Qinwen Deng , Yao Ge , Zhi Ding