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Orthogonal time-frequency space (OTFS) modulation has emerged as a powerful wireless communication technology that is specifically designed to address the challenges of high-mobility scenarios and significant Doppler effects. Unlike…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Emir Aslandogan , Haci Ilhan , Burak Ahmet Ozden , Erdogan Aydin , Ertugrul Basar , Miaowen Wen , Marco Di Renzo , Vincent Poor

Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (OTFS) modulation is a recently proposed scheme for time-varying narrowband channels in terrestrial radio-frequency communications. Underwater acoustic (UWA) and ultra-wideband (UWB) communication systems, on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-10 Arunkumar K. P. , Chandra R. Murthy

This work proposes a superimposed pilot (SP)-based channel estimation and data detection framework for orthogonal time-frequency space (OTFS) scheme, wherein low-powered pilots are superimposed on to data symbols in the delay-Doppler…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-29 Himanshu B. Mishra , Prem Singh , Abhishek K. Prasad , Rohit Budhiraja

We consider the downlink of Cell-Free Massive MIMO systems, where a very large number of distributed access points (APs) simultaneously serve a much smaller number of users. Each AP uses local channel estimates obtained from received uplink…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-12 Hien Quoc Ngo , Alexei Ashikhmin , Hong Yang , Erik G. Larsson , Thomas L. Marzetta

In this paper, we propose time and frequency synchronization techniques for uplink multiuser OTFS (MU-OTFS) systems in high-mobility scenarios. This work focuses on accurately estimating and correcting timing offsets (TOs) and carrier…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-25 Mohsen Bayat , Sanoopkumar P. S. , Arman Farhang

Next-generation networks explore the opportunistic assistance of airliner/high-altitude platforms (HAPs) in delivering high data rates for terrestrial networks to ensure consistent and reliable communication. When an airliner/HAP moves at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Ashok S Kumar , Shashank Shekhar , Gokularam Muthukrishnan , Muralikrishnan Srinivasan , Sheetal Kalyani

Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (OTFS) is a $\text{2-D}$ modulation technique that has the potential to overcome the challenges faced by orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) in high Doppler environments. The performance of OTFS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Kuntal Deka , Anna Thomas , Sanjeev Sharma

In this paper, we present a unique word (UW)-based channel estimation approach for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems under doubly dispersive channels, which is applied to orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) with space time…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-05 Roberto Bomfin , Marwa Chafii , Ahmad Nimr , Gerhard Fettweis

Wireless users with different characteristics will be expected to share spectrum in next generation communication networks. One of the great strengths of wireless networks based on Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Imran Ali Khan , Saif Khan Mohammed , Ronny Hadani , Ananthanarayanan Chockalingam , Robert Calderbank

Massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) combined with orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation has emerged as a promising technique for high-mobility scenarios. However, its performance could be severely degraded due to channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-03 Yanfeng Zhang , Xu Zhu , Yujie Liu , Yong Liang Guan , David González G. , Vincent K. N. Lau

In cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems, user equipments (UEs) are served by many distributed access points (APs), where channels are correlated due to finite…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Junyuan Gao , Yongpeng Wu , Yongjian Wang , Wenjun Zhang , Fan Wei

In high-mobility scenarios with time-frequency doubly-selective channels, existing semantic communication systems suffer significant performance degradation. To address this issue, we propose a semantic communication framework that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-29 Yu Zhang , Jiarui Yan , Yue Liu , Tenglun Ke , Yimeng Wang , Zhijin Qin

This paper investigates multi-static position estimation in cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF mMIMO) architectures, where orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) is used as an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Yifei Fan , Shaochuan Wu , Mingjun Sun , Lin Huo , Jianchao Su , Haojie Wang

Orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation is a recently proposed multi-carrier transmission scheme, which innovatively multiplexes the information symbols in the delay-Doppler (DD) domain instead of the conventional time-frequency…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Shuangyang Li

We consider Internet of Things (IoT) organized on the principles of cell-free massive MIMO. Since the number of things is very large, orthogonal pilots cannot be assigned to all of them even if the things are stationary. This results in an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-19 Shilpa Rao , Alexei Ashikhmin , Hong Yang

Cell-free massive MIMO is emerging as a promising technology for future wireless communication systems, which is expected to offer uniform coverage and high spectral efficiency compared to classical cellular systems. We study in this paper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-19 Houssem Sifaou , Geoffrey Ye Li

We consider the problem of uplink timing synchronization for Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (OTFS) modulation based systems where information is embedded in the delay-Doppler (DD) domain. For this, we propose a novel Random Access (RA)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Alok Kumar Sinha , Saif Khan Mohammed , P. Raviteja , Yi Hong , Emanuele Viterbo

Spatial modulation (SM) has proven to be a promising multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) technique which provides high energy efficiency and reduces system complexity. In SM, only one transmitter is active at any given time while the rest…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Anil Yesilkaya , Rui Bian , Iman Tavakkolnia , Harald Haas

Cell-free massive MIMO communications is an emerging network technology for 5G wireless communications wherein distributed multi-antenna access points (APs) serve many users simultaneously. Most prior work on cell-free massive MIMO systems…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Asmaa Abdallah , Mohammad M. Mansour

The recently proposed orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation technique was shown to provide significant error performance advantages over orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) in Doppler channels. In this paper, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-19 P. Raviteja , Khoa T. Phan , Yi Hong , Emanuele Viterbo