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Orthogonal Time Frequency Space ({OTFS}) modulation offers significant advantages over Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing ({OFDM}), particularly in high speed environments. Hence, we consider {OTFS} transmission over high-Doppler…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Xinyu Feng , Chao Zhang , Mohammed EL-Hajjar , Chao Xu , Lajos Hanzo

Orthogonal time-frequency space (OTFS) modulation has emerged as a powerful wireless communication technology that is specifically designed to address the challenges of high-mobility scenarios and significant Doppler effects. Unlike…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Emir Aslandogan , Haci Ilhan , Burak Ahmet Ozden , Erdogan Aydin , Ertugrul Basar , Miaowen Wen , Marco Di Renzo , Vincent Poor

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

Orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation has the potential to enable robust communications in highly-mobile scenarios. Estimating the channels for OTFS systems, however, is associated with high pilot signaling overhead that scales…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Shuaifeng Jiang , Ahmed Alkhateeb

Orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation is a two-dimensional modulation scheme designed in the delay-Doppler (DD) domain, exhibiting superior performance over orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Tengfei Qi , Yifei Yang , Xiong Deng , Zhinan Sun , Ziqiang Gao , Xihua Zou , Wei Pan , Lianshan Yan

Superimposed pilot (SIP) transmission improves spectral efficiency by eliminating the dedicated pilot overhead required in orthogonal pilot (OP)-based schemes. However, SIP suffers from severe pilot-data coupling, which leads to a critical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Xinjie Li , Xingyu Zhou , Jing Zhang , Chao-Kai Wen , Xiao Li , Shi Jin

We propose a pilot-data transmission overlay scheme for multipair massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) relaying systems employing either half- or full-duplex (HD or FD) communications at the relay station (RS). In the proposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-06 Leyuan Pan , Yongyu Dai , Wei Xu , Xiaodai Dong

Pilot contamination remains a major bottleneck in realizing the full potential of distributed massive MIMO systems. We propose two dynamic and scalable pilot assignment schemes designed for practical deployment in such networks. First, we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Mohd Saif Ali Khan , Karthik RM , Samar Agnihotri

Orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) has emerged as the most sought-after modulation technique in a high mobility scenario. Sparse code multiple access (SCMA) is an attractive code-domain non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technique.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-22 Anna Thomas , Kuntal Deka , P. Raviteja , Sanjeev Sharma

Delay-Doppler alignment modulation (DDAM) is a novel technique to mitigate time-frequency doubly selective channels by leveraging the high spatial resolution offered by large antenna arrays and multi-path sparsity of millimeter wave…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-09 Xianda Liu , Zhiwen Zhou , Zhiqiang Xiao , Yong Zeng

Orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation has demonstrated significant advantages in high-mobility scenarios in future 6G networks. However, existing channel estimation methods often overlook the structured sparsity and clustering…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-12 Chong Cao , Zhuyu Liu , Zheng Dong , Yong Zhou , He Chen

This paper proposes a joint optimization of pilot subcarrier allocation and non-orthogonal sequence for multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO)-orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) systems under compressed sensing (CS)-based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Kabuto Arai , Koji Ishibashi , Hiroki Iimori , Yuto Hama , Paulo Valente Klaine , Szabolcs Malomsoky

Pilot contamination is a limiting factor in multicell massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems because it can severely impair channel estimation. Prior works have suggested coordinating pilot design across cells in order to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Kaiming Shen , Hei Victor Cheng , Xihan Chen , Yonina C. Eldar , Wei Yu

With the large number of antennas and subcarriers the overhead due to pilot transmission for channel estimation can be prohibitive in wideband massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. This can degrade the overall spectral…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi , Deniz Gunduz

In this paper, we propose time and frequency synchronization techniques for uplink multiuser OTFS (MU-OTFS) systems in high-mobility scenarios. This work focuses on accurately estimating and correcting timing offsets (TOs) and carrier…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-25 Mohsen Bayat , Sanoopkumar P. S. , Arman Farhang

Massive MIMO is expected to play an important role in the development of 5G networks. This paper addresses the issue of pilot contamination and scalability in massive MIMO systems. The current practice of reusing orthogonal pilot sequences…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Muhammad Kamran Saeed , Ahmed E. Kamal , Ashfaq Khokhar

Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (OTFS) modulation exploits the sparsity of Delay-Doppler domain channels, making it highly effective in high-mobility scenarios. Its accurate channel estimation supports integrated sensing and communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 Guangyu Lei , Yanduo Qiao , Tianhao Liang , Weijie Yuan , Tingting Zhang

We propose a novel location-aware pilot assignment scheme to mitigate pilot contamination in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks, where the channels are subjected to Rician fading. Our proposed scheme utilizes the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Noman Akbar , Shihao Yan , Nan Yang , Jinhong Yuan

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

This paper proposes a novel modulation technique called globally filtered orthogonal time frequency space (GF-OTFS) which integrates single-carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA)-based delay-Doppler representation with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-24 Jialiang Zhu , Mohsen Bayat , Arman Farhang