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Waveforms with ideal ambiguity functions are fundamental to integrated sensing and communication, to active sensing (radar), and to uplink multiple access. We describe a general method of constructing waveforms using the discrete Zak…

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In orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation, information-carrying symbols reside in the delay-Doppler (DD) domain. By operating in the DD domain, an appealing property for communication arises: time-frequency (TF) dispersive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-07 Franz Lampel , Alex Alvarado , Frans M. J. Willems

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) through Zak-transform-based orthogonal time frequency space (Zak-OTFS) modulation is a promising solution for high-mobility scenarios. Realizing accurate bistatic sensing and robust communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-08 Kecheng Zhang , Weijie Yuan , Maria Sabrina Greco

Polarimetry, which is the ability to measure the scattering response of the environment across orthogonal polarizations, is fundamental to enhancing wireless communication and radar system performance. In this paper, we utilize the Zak-OTFS…

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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

Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (OTFS) suffers from high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) when the number of Doppler bins is large. To address this issue, a discrete Fourier transform spread OTFS (DFT-s-OTFS) scheme is employed by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-17 Jialiang Zhu , Sanoopkumar P. S. , Arman Farhang

In orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation, Zak transform approach is a natural approach for converting information symbols multiplexed in the DD domain directly to time domain for transmission, and vice versa at the receiver.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Vineetha Yogesh , Vighnesh S Bhat , Sandesh Rao Mattu , A. Chockalingam

The recently proposed orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation, which is a typical Delay-Doppler (DD) communication scheme, has attracted significant attention thanks to its appealing performance over doubly-selective channels. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Shuangyang Li , Peter Jung , Weijie Yuan , Zhiqiang Wei , Jinhong Yuan , Baoming Bai , Giuseppe Caire

Terahertz (THz) integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is a promising interdisciplinary technology that realizes simultaneously transmitting Terabit-per-second (Tbps) and millimeter-level accurate environment or human activity sensing.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-28 Yongzhi Wu , Chong Han , Zhi Chen

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

Linear time-varying (LTV) systems model radar scenes where each reflector/target applies a delay, Doppler shift and complex amplitude scaling to a transmitted waveform. The receiver processes the received signal using the transmitted signal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-25 Danish Nisar , Saif Khan Mohammed , Ronny Hadani , Ananthanarayanan Chockalingam , Robert Calderbank

Orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) is a framework for communication and active sensing that processes signals in the delay-Doppler (DD) domain. This paper explores three key features of the OTFS framework, and explains their value to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-20 Saif Khan Mohammed , Ronny Hadani , Ananthanarayanan Chockalingam , Robert Calderbank

Orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation offers superior robustness to high-mobility channels compared to conventional orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) waveforms. However, its explicit delay-Doppler (DD) domain…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-03 Junyao Zheng , Chung-Hsuan Tung , Yuncheng Yao , Nishant Mehrotra , Sandesh Mattu , Zhenzhou Qi , Danyang Zhuo , Robert Calderbank , Tingjun Chen

Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks typically rely on satellite communications to provide coverage in rural areas. However, high-mobility satellite links introduce severe Doppler and delay spreads, which necessitate the use of orthogonal time…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-15 Halvin Yang , Mahsa Derakhshani , Sangarapillai Lambotharan , Lajos Hanzo

Orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) is a strong candidate waveform for sixth generation wireless communication networks (6G), which can effectively handle time varying wireless channels. In this paper, we analyze the effect of fractional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-31 Sanoopkumar P. S , Muyiwa Balogun , Liam Barry , Arman Farhang

The orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation has emerged as a promising modulation scheme for high mobility wireless communications. To enable efficient OTFS detection in the delay-Doppler (DD) domain, the DD domain channels need…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Fei Liu , Zhengdao Yuan , Qinghua Guo , Zhongyong Wang , Peng Sun

Across the world, there is growing interest in new waveforms, Zak-OTFS in particular, and over-the-air implementations are starting to appear. The choice between OFDM and Zak-OTFS is not so much a choice between waveforms as it is an…

The OTFS (Orthogonal Time Frequency Space) is widely acknowledged for its ability to combat Doppler spread in time-varying channels. In this paper, another advantage of OTFS over OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) will be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-20 Zijun Gong , Fan Jiang , Yuhui Song , Cheng Li , Xiaofeng Tao

We propose a pulse radar system that employs a generalized window function derived from the root raised cosine (RRC), which relaxes the conventional constraint that the window values are within the range [0, 1]. The proposed window allows…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-06 Liangchen Sun , Yutaka Jitsumatsu

This paper proposes a grant-free coded random access (CRA) scheme for uplink massive machine-type communications (mMTC), based on Zak-orthogonal time frequency space (Zak-OTFS) modulation in the delay-Doppler domain. The scheme is tailored…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-30 Alessandro Mirri , Venkatesh Khammammetti , Beyza Dabak , Enrico Paolini , Krishna Narayanan , Robert Calderbank