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Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has opened up numerous game-changing opportunities for future wireless systems. In this paper, we develop a novel scheme that utilizes orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) pilot…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-25 Yuhua Jiang , Feifei Gao , Shi Jin

This paper proposes a novel multi-carrier modulation framework for high-mobility communication scenarios. Our key idea lies in spreading data symbols across the delay-Doppler (DD) domain through orthogonal chirp-Zak transform (CZT). To…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Chaoyuan Bai , Pingzhi Fan , Zhengchun Zhou , Zilong Liu

Timing synchronization (TS) is vital for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems, which makes the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) window start at the inter-symbol-interference (ISI)-free region. However, the multi-path…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-20 Chaojin Qing , Shuhai Tang , Na Yang , Chuangui Rao , Jiafan Wang

Beamforming design has been widely investigated for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems with full-duplex (FD) sensing and half-duplex (HD) communication. To achieve higher spectral efficiency, in this paper, we extend…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Zhenyao He , Wei Xu , Hong Shen , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Yonina C. Eldar , Xiaohu You

Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) is emerging as a key enabler for 6G networks, with signaling design at the core of its evolution. This paper reviews the paradigm shift of ISAC signaling designs from pilot-aided sensing to data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Yunxin Li , Ying Zhang , Christos Masouros , Sofie Pollin , Fan Liu

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) has been widely recognized as the representative waveform for 5G wireless networks, which can directly support sensing/positioning with existing infrastructure. To guarantee superior…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-21 Fan Zhang , Tianqi Mao , Ruiqi Liu , Zhu Han , Sheng Chen , Zhaocheng Wang

In the Internet-of-Things (IoT) era, efficient functionality integration is essential to address the growing demands of communication, computation, and sensing. Signal-level integrated sensing, computing, and communication (Sig-ISCC) is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Paul Zheng , Yao Zhu , Xiaopeng Yuan , Yulin Hu , Anke Schmeink

By multiplexing information symbols in the delay-Doppler (DD) domain, orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) is a promising candidate for future wireless communication in high-mobility scenarios. In addition to the superior communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-21 Kecheng Zhang , Zhongjie Li , Weijie Yuan , Yunlong Cai , Feifei Gao

Orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation has emerged as a promising candidate to overcome the performance degradation of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), which are commonly encountered in high-mobility wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-02 Yushi Lei , Yusha Liu , Guanghui Liu , Lei Wan , Kun Yang

For an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) system over a doubly selective (DS) channel, a large number of pilot subcarriers are needed to estimate the numerous channel parameters, resulting in low spectral efficiency. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-05 Qibo Qin , Lin Gui , Bo Gong , Xiang Ren , Wen Chen

We investigate the beampattern design problem for mono-static multi-user (MU) multi-point-target integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems, where a dual-function multiple-input multiple-output (DF-MIMO) base station (BS) performs…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Wilson de Souza Junior , Taufik Abrao , Amine Mezghani , Ekram Hossain

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is widely recognized as a pivotal enabling technique for the advancement of future wireless networks. This paper aims to efficiently exploit the inherent sparsity of echo signals for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Zichao Xiao , Rang Liu , Ming Li , Wei Wang , Qian Liu

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

The recently proposed orthogonal delay-Doppler division multiplexing (ODDM) modulation, which is a delay-Doppler (DD) domain multi-carrier (DDMC) modulation scheme based on the DD domain orthogonal pulse (DDOP), is studied. We first revisit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Hai Lin , Jinhong Yuan , Wei Yu , Jingxian Wu , Lajos Hanzo

The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) needs to sense the environment to ensure safe flight, and the sensing accuracy and communication delay performance are two important indicators of safe flight. The strategy of using integrated sensing and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Wangjun Jiang , Ailing Wang , Zhiqing Wei , Meichen Lai , Meichen Lai , Zhiyong Feng , Jianjun Liu

In this paper, we consider joint antenna allocation and transmit beamforming design in secure integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems. A dual-function base station (DFBS) aims to securely deliver messages to a single-antenna…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Yunxiang Shi , Lixin Li , Wensheng Lin , Wei Liang , Zhu Han

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

Distributed integrated sensing and communication (D-ISAC) enables multiple spatially distributed nodes to cooperatively perform sensing and communication. However, achieving coherent cooperation across distributed nodes is challenging due…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-06 Seonghoon Yoo , Seulhyun Kwon , Kawon Han , Elaheh Ataeebojd , Mehdi Rasti , Joonhyuk Kang

Orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation is anticipated to be a promising candidate for supporting integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) systems, which is considered as a pivotal technique for realizing next generation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-22 Jun Wu , Weijie Yuan , Zhiqiang Wei , Kecheng Zhang , Fan Liu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

The superimposed pilot transmission scheme offers substantial potential for improving spectral efficiency in MIMO-OFDM systems, but it presents significant challenges for receiver design due to pilot contamination and data interference. To…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Xinjie Li , Xingyu Zhou , Yixiao Cao , Jing Zhang , Chao-Kai Wen , Xiao Li , Shi Jin