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Sparse code multiple access (SCMA) is a promising code-domain non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) scheme for the enabling of massive machine-type communication. In SCMA, the design of good sparse codebooks and efficient multiuser decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Qu Luo , Zilong Liu , Gaojie Chen , Yi Ma , Pei Xiao

Sparse code multiple access (SCMA) is an emerging paradigm for efficient enabling of massive connectivity in future machine-type communications (MTC). In this letter, we conceive the uplink transmissions of the low-density parity check…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Lingyun Chai , Zilong Liu , Pei Xiao , Amine Maaref , Lin Bai

Affine Frequency Division Multiplexing (AFDM) has attracted considerable attention for its robustness to Doppler effects. However, its high receiver-side computational complexity remains a major barrier to practical deployment. To address…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-19 Shuntian Tang , Zesong Fei , Xinyi Wang , Dongkai Zhou , Zhiqiang Wei , Christos Masouros

Sparse code multiple access (SCMA) has been one of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) schemes aiming to support high spectral efficiency and ubiquitous access requirements for 5G wireless communication networks. Conventional SCMA…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-20 Jinzhi Lin , Shengzhong Feng , Zhile Yang , Yun Zhang , Yong Zhang

Affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) is a multi-chirp waveform and a promising solution for ultra-reliable communication under doubly dispersive channels. In this paper, we propose two pilot aided channel estimation schemes for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-24 Haoran Yin , Yanqun Tang

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is a key feature of next-generation wireless networks, enabling a wide range of emerging applications such as vehicle-to-everything (V2X) and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which operate in…

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This paper addresses channel estimation for linear time-varying (LTV) wireless propagation links under the assumption of double sparsity i.e., sparsity in both the delay and the Doppler domains. Affine frequency division multiplexing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Wissal Benzine , Ali Bemani , Nassar Ksairi , Dirk Slock

Sparsely spread code division multiple access (SCDMA) is a non-orthogonal superposition coding scheme that permits a base station simultaneously communicates with multiple users over a common channel. The detection performance of an SCDMA…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-18 Guanghui Song , Xianbin Wang , Jun Cheng

Sparse code multiple access (SCMA) is a promising technique for the enabling of massive connectivity in future machine-type communication networks, but it suffers from a limited diversity order which is a bottleneck for significant…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Qu Luo , Zilong Liu , Gaojie Chen , Pei Xiao

This paper proposes an integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) system based on affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) waveform. To this end, a metric set is designed according to not only the maximum tolerable delay/Doppler, but…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-03 Yuanhan Ni , Peng Yuan , Qin Huang , Fan Liu , Zulin Wang

This paper studies a downlink system that combines orthogonal-time-frequency-space (OTFS) modulation and sparse code multiple access (SCMA) to support massive connectivity in high-mobility environments. We propose a cross-domain receiver…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Haifeng Wen , Weijie Yuan , Zilong Liu , Shuangyang Li

Affine Frequency Division Multiplexing (AFDM) has been proposed as an effective waveform for achieving the full diversity of doubly-dispersive (delay-Doppler) channels. While this property is closely related to range and velocity estimation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Ali Bemani , Nassar Ksairi , Marios Kountouris

In this letter, we study interleave frequency division multiplexing (IFDM) for multicarrier modulation in static multipath and mobile time-varying channels, which outperforms orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), orthogonal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Yuhao Chi , Lei Liu , Yao Ge , Xuehui Chen , Ying Li , Zhaoyang Zhang

Sparse Code Multiple Access (SCMA) has been recently proposed for the future generation of wireless communication standards. SCMA system design involves specifying several parameters. In order to simplify the procedure, most works consider…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-03 Bruno Fontana da Silva , Danilo Silva , Bartolomeu F. Uchôa-Filho , Didier Le Ruyet

Affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM), a promising multicarrier technique utilizing chirp signals, has been envisioned as an effective solution for high-mobility communication scenarios. In this paper, we develop a multiple-mode…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-18 Guangyao Liu , Tianqi Mao , Yanqun Tang , Jingjing Zhao , Zhenyu Xiao

Spatial modulation (SM)-sparse code multiple access (SCMA) systems provide high spectral efficiency (SE) at the expense of using a high number of transmit antennas. To overcome this drawback, this letter proposes a novel SM-SCM A system…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-16 Ibrahim Al-Nahhal , Octavia A. Dobre , Ertugrul Basar , Salama Ikki

This paper studies the error rate performance and low-complexity receiver design for zero-padded affine frequency division multiplexing (ZP-AFDM) systems. By exploiting the unique ZP-aided lower triangular structure of the time domain (TD)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-29 Qin Yi , Zeping Sui , Zilong Liu

Sparse code multiple access (SCMA) is one of the most promising methods among all the non-orthogonal multiple access techniques in the future 5G communication. Compared with some other non-orthogonal multiple access techniques such as low…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-28 Fan Wei , Wen Chen

Sparse code multiple access (SCMA) is a promising technique for future machine type communication systems due to its superior spectral efficiency and capability for supporting massive connectivity. This paper proposes a novel class of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Haibo Liu , Qu Luo , Zilong Liu , Shan Luo , Pei Xiao , Xiaojun Yuan

In this paper, we investigate a new waveform for UWB systems obtained by the combination of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) and Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA). The proposed system, called Spread Spectrum - Multi-Carrier…

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