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The integration of multicarrier modulation and multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) is critical for reliable transmission of wireless signals in complex environments, which significantly improve spectrum efficiency. Existing studies have…

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Affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) has recently emerged as a promising waveform for doubly-selective channles [1],[2], owing to its ability to fully exploit time-frequency diversity through appropriate tuning of the chirp-rate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Haojian Zhang , Jiayan Yang , Tingting Zhang , Xu Zhu , Qinyu Zhang

The recently proposed affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) modulation has been considered as a promising technology for narrowband doubly-dispersive channels. However, the time-scaling effects, i.e., pulse widening and pulse…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Xiangxiang Li , Haiyan Wang , Yao Ge , Xiaohong Shen , Yong Liang Guan , Miaowen Wen , Chau Yuen

Spectral efficiency is a key design issue for all wireless communication systems. Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is a very well-known technique for efficient data transmission over many carriers overlapped in frequency.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-03-28 R. G. Clegg , S. Isam , I. Kanaris , I. Darwazeh

Affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) is a chirp-based multicarrier waveform that was recently proposed for communication over doubly dispersive channels. Given its chirp nature, AFDM is expected to have superior sensing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-15 Ebrahim Bedeer

Sparse code multiple access (SCMA) is attracting significant research interests currently, which is considered as a promising multiple access technique for 5G systems. It serves as a good candidate for the future communication network with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-10-31 Shun Lou , Chen Gong , Qian Gao , Zhengyuan Xu

Affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) is a new multicarrier technique based on chirp signals tailored for high-mobility communications, which can achieve full diversity. In this paper, we propose an index modulation (IM) scheme…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-20 Yiwei Tao , Miaowen Wen , Yao Ge , Jun Li

With the ever-increasing user density and quality of service (QoS) demand,5G networks with limited spectrum resources are facing massive access challenges. To address these challenges, in this paper, we propose a novel discrete semantic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-12 Shuai Ma , Chuanhui Zhang , Bin Shen , Youlong Wu , Hang Li , Shiyin Li , Guangming Shi , Naofal Al-Dhahir

Affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) has emerged as a promising modulation scheme for doubly selective channels, but its canonical continuous-time realization, referred to herein as piecewise continuous AFDM (PC-AFDM), has been…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-13 Yewen Cao , Yulin Shao

Multi-user spatial modulation (SM) assisted by sparse code multiple access (SCMA) has been recently proposed to provide uplink high spectral efficiency transmission. The message passing algorithm (MPA) is employed to detect the transmitted…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-19 Ibrahim Al-Nahhal , Octavia A. Dobre , Salama Ikki

This paper investigates the sensing potential of affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) in high-mobility integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) from the perspective of radar waveforms. We introduce an innovative parameter…

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Efficient signal detectors are rather important yet challenging to achieve satisfactory performance for large-scale communication systems. This paper considers a non-orthogonal sparse code multiple access (SCMA) configuration for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-16 Yao Ge , Lei Liu , Shunqi Huang , David González G. , Yong Liang Guan , Zhi Ding

Compute-forward multiple access (CFMA) is a transmission strategy which allows the receiver in a multiple access channel (MAC) to first decode linear combinations of the transmitted signals and then solve for individual messages. Compared…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Lanwei Zhang , Jamie Evans , Jingge Zhu

This paper presents a highly robust space-frequency block coded (SFBC) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system. The proposed system is based on applying a short block length Walsh…

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We propose a low-complexity receiver structure for the recently introduced Affine Filter Bank Modulation (AFBM) scheme, which is a novel waveform designed for integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) systems operating in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Kuranage Roche Rayan Ranasinghe , Bruno S. Chang , Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu

Affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) has recently emerged as a resilient waveform candidate for high-mobility next-generation wireless systems. However, current literature mostly focuses on discrete time (DT) models, often…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-06 Michele Mirabella , Hyeon Seok Rou , Pasquale Di Viesti , Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu , Giorgio Matteo Vitetta

As 5G networks rolling out in many different countries nowadays, the time has come to investigate how to upgrade and expand them towards 6G, where the latter is expected to realize the interconnection of everything as well as the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-06 Lisu Yu , Zilong Liu , Miaowen Wen , Donghong Cai , Shuping Dang , Yuhao Wang , Pei Xiao

Compressed sensing has been employed to reduce the pilot overhead for channel estimation in wireless communication systems. Particularly, structured turbo compressed sensing (STCS) provides a generic framework for structured sparse signal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Xiaoyan Kuai , Lei Chen , Xiaojun Yuan , An Liu

Despite being the subject of a growing body of research, non-orthogonal multiple access has failed to garner sufficient support to be included in modern standards. One of the more promising approaches to non-orthogonal multiple access is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Dylan Wheeler , Erin E. Tripp , Balasubramaniam Natarajan

In this paper, a Rate-Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) scheme is proposed to assist a Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) system where local computation tasks from two users are offloaded to the MEC server, facilitated by uplink RSMA for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Jiawei Xu , Yumeng Zhang , Yunnuo Xu , Bruno Clerckx