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As the next generation cellular system, 5G network is required to provide a large variety of services for different kinds of terminals, from traditional voice and data services over mobile phones to small packet transmission over massive…

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This paper studies a sub-connected six-dimensional movable antenna (6DMA)-aided multi-user communication system. In this system, each sub-array is connected to a dedicated radio frequency chain and collectively moves and rotates as a unit…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-24 Yichi Zhang , Yuchen Zhang , Lipeng Zhu , Sa Xiao , Wanbin Tang , Yonina C. Eldar , Rui Zhang

Next-generation wireless systems will offer integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) functionalities not only in order to enable new applications, but also as a means to mitigate challenges such as doubly-dispersive channels, which…

While Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) has confirmed orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) as the baseline waveform for sixth-generation (6G), its performance is severely compromised in the high-mobility scenarios…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Mauro Marchese , Dario Tagliaferri , Henk Wymeersch , Musa Furkan Keskin , Emanuele Viterbo , Pietro Savazzi

The use of millimeter waves for wireless communications is one of the main technological innovations of 5G systems with respect to previous generations of cellular systems. Their consideration, however, has been up to now mainly restricted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Bengt Lindoff , Carmen D'Andrea , Stefano Buzzi , Markus Tormanen , Per-Olof Brandt

Delay alignment modulation (DAM) is a novel wideband communication technique, which exploits the high spatial resolution and multi-path sparsity of millimeter wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems to mitigate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Xingwei Wang , Haiquan Lu , Yong Zeng

In this paper, we introduce a new 2D modulation scheme referred to as OTFS (Orthogonal Time Frequency & Space) that multiplexes information QAM symbols over new class of carrier waveforms that correspond to localized pulses in a signal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-09 Ronny Hadani , Anton Monk

Conventional delay-Doppler (DD) communication and sensing systems require transmitting pilot frames at every channel coherence time interval in order to keep track of channel variations at the cost of spectral efficiency. In this paper, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Nishant Mehrotra , Sandesh Rao Mattu , Robert Calderbank

In the sixth generation (6G) wireless communication networks, the device density, antenna number, and the complexity of communication scenarios will significantly increase, which brings great challenges for system design and network…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-17 Tianrun Qi , Cheng-Xiang Wang , Chen Huang , Jiayue Shi , Junling Li , Shuaifei Chen , El-Hadi M. Aggoune

Delay alignment modulation (DAM) is an innovative broadband modulation technique well suited for millimeter wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems. Leveraging the high spatial…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-23 Xingwei Wang , Haiquan Lu , Jieni Zhang , Yong Zeng

The Future wireless communication systems face the challenging task of simultaneously providing high quality of service (QoS) and broadband data transmission, while also minimizing power consumption, latency, and system complexity. Although…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Amina Darghouthi , Abdelhakim Khlifi , Hmaied Shaiek , Fatma Ben Salah , Belgacem Chibani

The projected sub-THz (100 - 300 GHz) part of the upcoming 6G standard will require a careful design of the waveform and choice of slot structure. Not only that the design of the physical layer for 6G will be driven by ambitious system…

Delay alignment modulation (DAM) has been recently proposed to enable manipulable channel delay spread for efficient single- or multi-carrier communications. In particular, with perfect delay alignment, inter-symbol interference (ISI) can…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-11 Zhiqiang Xiao , Yong Zeng

In integrated sensing and communications (ISAC), a distinguishing feature of 6G wireless networks, the main challenge lies in integrating the two distinct functions of sensing and communication within the same waveform. In this paper, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Henglin Pu , Zhu Han , Athina P. Petropulu , Husheng Li

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 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

Orthogonal delay-Doppler (DD) division multiplexing (ODDM) modulation has recently emerged as a promising paradigm for ensuring reliable communications in doubly-selective channels. This work investigates the spectra and orthogonality…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-20 Akram Shafie , Jun Tong , Jinhong Yuan , Taka Sakurai , Paul Fitzpatrick , Yuting Fang , Yixuan Xie

The sixth generation (6G) of wireless networks introduces integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), a technology in which communication and sensing functionalities are inextricably linked, sharing resources across time, frequency, space,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-28 Silvia Mura , Dario Tagliaferri , Marouan Mizmizi , Umberto Spagnolini , Athina Petropulu

The integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has been envisioned as one representative usage scenario of sixth-generation (6G) network. However, the unprecedented characteristics of 6G, especially the doubly dispersive channel, make…

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