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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

Orthogonal time frequency space modulation (OTFS) is currently one of the most robust modulation techniques for high Doppler channels. However, to reap the benefits of OTFS, an accurate channel estimation is crucial. To this mean, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-16 Danilo Lelin Li , Sanoopkumar P. S. , Arman Farhang

Generalized spatial modulation-aided affine frequency division multiplexing (GSM-AFDM) is conceived for reliable multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications over doubly selective channels. \textcolor{black}{We commence by proposing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-18 Zeping Sui , Zilong Liu , Leila Musavian , Lie-Liang Yang , Lajos Hanzo

In contrast to the classical cyclic prefix (CP)-OFDM, the time domain synchronous (TDS)-OFDM employs a known pseudo noise (PN) sequence as guard interval (GI). Conventional channel estimation methods for TDS-OFDM are based on the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-01-04 Ming Liu , Matthieu Crussière , Jean-François Hélard

The focus of this letter is on the reduction of the large pilot overhead in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) based massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. We propose a novel joint channel estimation and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Danilo Lelin Li , Arman Farhang

Affine Frequency Division Multiplexing (AFDM), a new chirp-based multicarrier waveform for high mobility communications, is introduced here. AFDM is based on discrete affine Fourier transform (DAFT), a generalization of discrete Fourier…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Ali Bemani , Nassar Ksairi , Marios Kountouris

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

In this work, we propose two methods that utilize data symbols in addition to pilot symbols for improved channel estimation quality in a multi-user system, so-called semi-blind channel estimation. To this end, a subspace is estimated based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-12 Franz Weißer , Nurettin Turan , Dominik Semmler , Wolfgang Utschick

Orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation was shown to provide significant error performance advantages over orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) in delay--Doppler channels. In order to detect OTFS modulated data, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-28 P. Raviteja , Khoa T. Phan , Yi Hong

Affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) is a recently proposed multicarrier waveform whose bit error rate (BER) performance in doubly selective channels is comparable to that of orthogonal time-frequency space (OTFS) and superior to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Hongjun Liu , Liaoyuan Zeng , Junhao Tian , Qingyu Li , Fuchen Xu , Chengxiang Liu , Guanghui Liu

Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) is regarded as a key technology in next-generation (6G) mobile communication systems. Affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) is a recently proposed waveform that achieves optimal diversity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Ali Bemani , Nassar Ksairi , Marios Kountouris

Next-generation wireless networks are conceived to provide reliable and high-data-rate communication services for diverse scenarios, such as vehicle-to-vehicle, unmanned aerial vehicles, and satellite networks. The severe Doppler spreads in…

The aim of this paper is to investigate the recently developed mixed-ADC architecture for frequency-selective channels. Multi-carrier techniques such as orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) are employed to handle inter-symbol…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ning Liang , Wenyi Zhang

In this paper, we propose an algorithm for channel estimation, acquisition and tracking, for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems. The proposed algorithm is suitable for vehicular communications that encounter very high…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-03 Mahmoud Ashour , Amr El-Keyi

Affine Frequency Division Multiplexing (AFDM) is considered as a promising solution for next-generation wireless systems due to its satisfactory performance in high-mobility scenarios. By adjusting AFDM parameters to match the multi-path…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Jin Xu , Zijian Liang , Kai Niu

This paper proposes a spectrum-efficient nonorthogonal affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) waveform for reliable high-mobility communications in the upcoming sixth-generation (6G) mobile systems. Our core idea is to introduce a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-24 Yu Zhang , Qin Yi , Leila Musavian , Tongyang Xu , Zilong Liu

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

Affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) is a promising new multicarrier technique for high-mobility communications based on discrete affine Fourier transform (DAFT). By properly tuning two parameters in the DAFT module, the effective…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Haozhi Yuan , Yin Xu , Xinghao Guo , Yao Ge , Tianyao Ma , Haoyang Li , Dazhi He , Wenjun Zhang

Massive multiple input and multiple output (MIMO) systems with orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) are foundational for downlink multi-user (MU) communication in future wireless networks, for their ability to enhance spectral…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-30 Erdeng Zhang , Shuntian Zheng , Sheng Wu , Haoge Jia , Zhe Ji , Ailing Xiao

Channel state information (CSI) is critical for multi-input multi-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system. Pilot-based channel estimation methods suffer from high pilot overhead and low channel acquisition…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-11 Hongning Ruan , Zhaoyang Zhang , Zirui Chen , Ziqing Xing , Zhaohui Yang