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This letter is the first part of a three-part tutorial on orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation, which is a promising candidate waveform for future wireless networks. This letter introduces and compares two popular…

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Orthogonal signaling or Nyquist signaling limits the number of information symbols transmitted in bandwidth $B$ and time $T$ to be $BT$, the time-bandwidth product. Transmitting more than $BT$ symbols leads to loss of orthogonality. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-27 Sandesh Rao Mattu , Nishant Mehrotra , Robert Calderbank

This paper presents a unified and system-agnostic analysis of the ambiguity function (AF) characteristics of four representative multicarrier waveforms, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), orthogonal time frequency space…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-14 Hyeon Seok Rou , Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu

In this work, we propose a waveform based on Modulation on Conjugate-reciprocal Zeros (MOCZ) originally proposed for short-packet communications in [1], as a new Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) waveform. Having previously…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Saeid K. Dehkordi , Peter Jung , Philipp Walk , Dennis Wieruch , Kai Heuermann , Giuseppe Caire

The first two parts of this tutorial on orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation have discussed the fundamentals of delay-Doppler (DD) domain communications as well as some advanced technologies for transceiver design. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Weijie Yuan , Zhiqiang Wei , Shuangyang Li , Robert Schober , Giuseppe Caire

**PLEASE FIND THE FULL EXTENDED ARTICLE "From OTFS to AFDM: A Comparative Study of Next-Generation Waveforms for ISAC in Doubly-Dispersive Channels" (Accepted for publication at the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine - Special Issue on Signal…

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…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-14 Nishant Mehrotra , Sandesh Rao Mattu , Robert Calderbank

In radar sensing and communications, designing Doppler resilient sequences (DRSs) with low ambiguity function for delay over the entire signal duration and Doppler shift over the entire signal bandwidth is an extremely difficult task.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Zhifan Ye , Zhengchun Zhou , Pingzhi Fan , Zilong Liu , Xianfu Lei , Xiaohu Tang

This paper introduces a novel finite Zak transform (FZT)-aided framework for constructing multiple zero-correlation zone (ZCZ) sequence sets with optimal correlation properties. Specifically, each sequence is perfect with zero…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Xiuping Peng , Congying Wu , Zilong Liu , Chunlei Li , Jianye Zhang , Xiangjun Li , Pingzhi Fan

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has emerged as a pivotal technology for next-generation wireless communication and radar systems, enabling high-resolution sensing and high-throughput communication with shared spectrum and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-16 Henglin Pu , Xuefeng Wang , Ajay Kumar , Lu Su , Husheng Li

With the increasing demand for multi-carrier communication in high-mobility scenarios, it is urgent to design new multi-carrier communication waveforms that can resist large delay-Doppler spreads. Various multi-carrier waveforms in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-05 Xingyao Zhang , Haoran Yin , Yanqun Tang , Yu Zhou , Yuqing Liu , Jinming Du , Yipeng Ding

Orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation is a recently proposed multi-carrier transmission scheme, which innovatively multiplexes the information symbols in the delay-Doppler (DD) domain instead of the conventional time-frequency…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Shuangyang Li

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) and orthogonal time-frequency space (OTFS) modulation have gained attention in recent wireless research. RIS technology aids communication by reflecting the incident electromagnetic waves towards…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Vighnesh S Bhat , Gandhodi Harshavardhan , A. Chockalingam

In this paper we introduce a new 2D modulation technique called OTFS (Orthogonal Time Frequency & Space) that transforms information carried in the Delay-Doppler coordinate system to the familiar time-frequency domain utilized by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-11 Anton Monk , Ronny Hadani , Michail Tsatsanis , Shlomo Rakib

The Terahertz band holds a promise to enable both super-accurate sensing and ultra-fast communication. However, challenges arise that severe Doppler effects call for a waveform with high Doppler robustness while severe propagation path loss…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-26 Meilin Li , Chong Han , Shi Jin

The evolution of wireless communication systems towards millimeter-wave ($30-100$ GHz) and sub-THz ($>100$ GHz) frequency bands highlighted the need for accurate and fast beam management and a proactive link-blockage prediction in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-25 Luca Rinaldi , Dario Tagliaferri , Francesco Linsalata , Marouan Mizmizi , Maurizio Magarini , Umberto Spagnolini

The performance of Zak-OTFS modulation is critically dependent on the choice of the delay-Doppler (DD) domain pulse shaping filter. The design of pulses for $L^2(\mathbb{R})$ is constrained by the Balian-Low Theorem, which imposes an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Fathima Jesbin , Ananthanarayanan Chockalingam

The Zak-OTFS input/output (I/O) relation is predictable and non-fading when the delay and Doppler periods are greater than the effective channel delay and Doppler spreads, a condition which we refer to as the crystallization condition. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Muhammad Ubadah , Saif Khan Mohammed , Ronny Hadani , Shachar Kons , Ananthanarayanan Chockalingam , Robert Calderbank

Orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) is a promising alternative to orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) for high-mobility communications. We propose a novel multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) integrated sensing and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-13 Musa Furkan Keskin , Carina Marcus , Olof Eriksson , Alex Alvarado , Joerg Widmer , Henk Wymeersch

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