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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

Affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) is a multi-chirp waveform and a promising solution for ultra-reliable communication under doubly dispersive channels. In this paper, we propose two pilot aided channel estimation schemes for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-24 Haoran Yin , Yanqun Tang

Affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) and orthogonal AFDM access (O-AFDMA) are promising techniques based on chirp signals, which are able to suppress the performance deterioration caused by Doppler shifts in high-mobility…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Yiwei Tao , Miaowen Wen , Yao Ge , Tianqi Mao , Lixia Xiao , Jun Li

Two signal multiplexing schemes for optical fiber communication are considered: Wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) and nonlinear frequency-division multiplexing (NFDM), based on the nonlinear Fourier transform (NFT). Achievable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Mansoor I. Yousefi , Xianhe Yangzhang

This paper introduces a novel frequency-shift chirp spread spectrum (FSCSS) system with index modulation (IM). By using combinations of orthogonal chirp signals for message representation, the proposed FSCSS-IM system is very flexible to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Muhammad Hanif , Ha H. Nguyen

As wireless communication applications evolve from traditional multipath environments to high-mobility scenarios like unmanned aerial vehicles, multiplexing techniques have advanced accordingly. Traditional single-carrier frequency-domain…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Lei Liu , Yuhao Chi , Shunqi Huang , Zhaoyang Zhang

Affine Frequency Division Multiplexing (AFDM) has emerged as a promising chirp-based multicarrier technology for high-speed communication systems. To fully exploit the diversity gain offered by AFDM, accurate channel estimation is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Ruizhe Wang , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Haisu Wu , Jiangzhou Wang

The recently developed affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) can achieve full diversity in doubly selective channels, providing a comprehensive sparse representation of the delay-Doppler domain channel. Thus, accurate channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-02 Yu Zhou , Haoran Yin , Nanhao Zhou , Yanqun Tang , Xiaoying Zhang , Weijie Yuan

The orthogonal time frequency space with index modulation (OTFS-IM) offers flexible tradeoffs between spectral efficiency (SE) and bit error rate (BER) in doubly selective fading channels. While OTFS-IM schemes demonstrated such potential,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-15 Kehan Huang , Min Qiu , Jinhong Yuan

Affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) is a promising chirp-assisted multicarrier waveform for future high mobility communications. A significant challenge in MIMO-AFDM systems is the multi-user interference (MUI), which can be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Jun Zhu , Yin Xu , Dazhi He , Haoyang Li , Yunfeng Guan , Wenjun Zhang

As the standardization of sixth generation (6G) wireless systems accelerates, there is a growing consensus in favor of evolutionary waveforms that offer new features while maximizing compatibility with orthogonal frequency division…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-17 Hyeon Seok Rou , Vincent Savaux , Zeping Sui , Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu , Zilong Liu

In this paper, a deep convolutional neural network-based symbol detection and demodulation is proposed for generalized frequency division multiplexing with index modulation (GFDM-IM) scheme in order to improve the error performance of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-08 Merve Turhan , Ersin Öztürk , Hakan Ali Çırpan

This paper explores the potential of affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) to mitigate the multiuser interference (MUI) problem by employing time-domain precoding in extremely-large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Jun Zhu , Yin Xu , Dazhi He , Haoyang Li , Yunfeng Guan , Wenjun Zhang , Tianyao Ma , Haozhi Yuan

Low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellites and vehicle-to-everything (V2X) networks are driving integrated communication and navigation (ICAN) toward next-generation intelligent transportation. Affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) is a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-21 Zhenyu Chen , Ke Xiao , Xiaomei Tang , Jing Lei , Muzi Yuan , Guangfu Sun

The recently proposed multi-chirp waveform, affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM), is regarded as a prospective candidate for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) due to its robust performance in high-mobility scenarios and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-14 Yirui Luo , Yong Liang Guan , Yao Ge , Chau Yuen

This work considers the problem of enabling maximum multipath diversity of orthogonal chirp division multiplexing (OCDM)-based systems. We define and study an Affine OCDM (A-OCDM) system in which a chirp parameter is adapted to enable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Sidong Guo , Xiaoli Ma , Yiyin Wang

Affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) has emerged as a promising integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) waveform due to its intrinsic chirp signalling nature. Nevertheless, practical AFDM-based ISAC still faces two key…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-27 Lingsheng Meng , Yong Liang Guan , Zilong Liu , Yirui Luo , Pingzhi Fan

Index modulation (IM) brings the reduction of power consumption and complexity of the transmitter to classical multiple-input multiple-output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) systems. However, due to the introduction…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-14 Jinxue Liu , Hancheng Lu

A novel transmission scheme is introduced for efficient data transmission by conveying additional information bits through jointly changing the index and number of active subcarriers within each orthogonal frequency division multiplexing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-03 Ahmad M. Jaradat , Jehad M. Hamamreh , Huseyin Arslan

Discrete affine Fourier transform spread affine frequency division multiplexing (DAFT-s-AFDM) is a promising waveform for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) due to its low peak-to-average power ratio, robustness to Doppler shifts,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-20 Shiqi Cui , Tianqi Mao , Fan Zhang , Zeping Sui , Christos Masouros , Zhaocheng Wang