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Waveforms with ideal ambiguity functions are fundamental to integrated sensing and communication, to active sensing (radar), and to uplink multiple access. We describe a general method of constructing waveforms using the discrete Zak…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-01 Nishant Mehrotra , Sandesh Rao Mattu , Robert Calderbank

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…

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

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 2024-10-23 Jinu Jayachandran , Muhammad Ubadah , Saif Khan Mohammed , Ronny Hadani , Ananthanarayanan Chockalingam , Robert Calderbank

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 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. When…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-24 Jinu Jayachandran , Rahul Kumar Jaiswal , Saif Khan Mohammed , Ronny Hadani , Ananthanarayanan Chockalingam , Robert Calderbank

Zak-OTFS provides a framework for integrated sensing & communication (ISAC) in high delay and Doppler spread environments. Pulse shaping filter design enables joint optimization of sensing and communication performance. For sensing, a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-16 Nishant Mehrotra , Sandesh Rao Mattu , Robert Calderbank

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

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

This paper introduces a new two-dimensional modulation technique called Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (OTFS) modulation. OTFS has the novel and important feature of being designed in the delay-Doppler domain. When coupled with a suitable…

Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (OTFS) suffers from high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) when the number of Doppler bins is large. To address this issue, a discrete Fourier transform spread OTFS (DFT-s-OTFS) scheme is employed by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-17 Jialiang Zhu , Sanoopkumar P. S. , Arman Farhang

Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (OTFS) modulation is a recently proposed scheme for time-varying narrowband channels in terrestrial radio-frequency communications. Underwater acoustic (UWA) and ultra-wideband (UWB) communication systems, on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-10 Arunkumar K. P. , Chandra R. Murthy

The orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation has emerged as a promising modulation scheme for high mobility wireless communications. To enable efficient OTFS detection in the delay-Doppler (DD) domain, the DD domain channels need…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Fei Liu , Zhengdao Yuan , Qinghua Guo , Zhongyong Wang , Peng Sun

Orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) is a strong candidate waveform for sixth generation wireless communication networks (6G), which can effectively handle time varying wireless channels. In this paper, we analyze the effect of fractional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-31 Sanoopkumar P. S , Muyiwa Balogun , Liam Barry , Arman Farhang

When the delay period of the Zak-OTFS carrier is greater than the delay spread of the channel, and the Doppler period of the carrier is greater than the Doppler spread of the channel, the effective channel filter taps can simply be read off…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-31 Jinu Jayachandran , Imran Ali Khan , Saif Khan Mohammed , Ronny Hadani , Ananthanarayanan Chockalingam , Robert Calderbank

In the 6G era, space-air-Ground integrated networks (SAGIN) are anticipated to deliver global coverage, necessitating support for a diverse array of emerging applications in high-mobility, hostile environments. Under such conditions,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Weijie Yuan , Shuangyang Li , Zhiqiang Wei , Yuanhao Cui , Jiamo Jiang , Haijun Zhang , Pingzhi Fan

Orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) is a two-dimensional modulation technique that uses the delay-Doppler (DD) domain and is a candidate for providing robust, high-capacity wireless communications for envisioned 6G and beyond networks.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-24 Burak Ahmet Ozden , Erdogan Aydin , Emir Aslandogan , Haci Ilhan , Ertugrul Basar , Miaowen Wen , Marco Di Renzo , Vincent Poor

In our first paper [2] we explained why 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…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-03 Saif Khan Mohammed , Ronny Hadani , Ananthanarayanan Chockalingam , Robert Calderbank

Orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation is a 2-dimensional (2D) modulation scheme designed in the delay-Doppler domain, unlike traditional modulation schemes which are designed in the time-frequency domain. Through a series of 2D…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-06 K. R. Murali , A. Chockalingam

Terahertz (THz) integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is a promising interdisciplinary technology that realizes simultaneously transmitting Terabit-per-second (Tbps) and millimeter-level accurate environment or human activity sensing.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-28 Yongzhi Wu , Chong Han , Zhi Chen

Orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation has been confirmed to provide significant performance advantages against Doppler in high-mobility scenarios. The core feature of OTFS is that the time-variant channel is converted into a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Haoyan Liu , Yanming Liu , Min Yang , Qiongjie Zhang