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Affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) is a new multicarrier technique based on chirp signals tailored for high-mobility communications, which can achieve full diversity. In this paper, we propose an index modulation (IM) scheme…

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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

Affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) has emerged as a promising waveform for high-mobility communications. However, its equalization remains a practical challenge under general physical channels with off-grid delay and Doppler…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-10 Cheng Shen , Chenyang Zhang , Jinhong Yuan

Affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) has recently emerged as a promising waveform for doubly-selective channles [1],[2], owing to its ability to fully exploit time-frequency diversity through appropriate tuning of the chirp-rate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Haojian Zhang , Jiayan Yang , Tingting Zhang , Xu Zhu , Qinyu Zhang

We present a novel multicarrier waveform, termed chirp-permuted affine frequency division multiplexing (CP-AFDM), which introduces a unique chirp-permutation domain on top of the chirp subcarriers of the conventional AFDM. Rigorous analysis…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-24 Hyeon Seok Rou , Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu

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…

This paper proposes an anti-interference affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) system to ensure reliability and resource efficiency under malicious high-power interference originating from adversarial devices in high-mobility…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Peng Yuan , Zulin Wang , Tao Luo , Yuanhan Ni

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

Affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM), an emerging multi-carrier modulation scheme, has garnered significant attention due to its resilience to Doppler shifts and capability to achieve full diversity in doubly dispersive channels.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-17 Taohe Chen , Yin Xu , Tianyao Ma , Aimin Tang , Qu Luo , Dazhi He , Wenjun Zhang

Affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) has emerged as a promising modulation scheme for doubly selective channels, but its canonical continuous-time realization, referred to herein as piecewise continuous AFDM (PC-AFDM), has been…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-13 Yewen Cao , Yulin Shao

The recently proposed multi-chirp waveform, affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM), is considered as a potential candidate for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC). However, acquiring accurate target sensing parameter…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-10 Yirui Luo , Yong Liang Guan , Yao Ge , David González G. , Chau Yuen

Channel models are crucial for theoretical analysis, performance evaluation, and deployment of wireless communication systems. Traditional channel sounding systems are insufficient for handling the dynamic changes of channels in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Yu Zhou , Chao Zou , Nanhao Zhou , Yanqun Tang , Xiaoying Zhang , Haoran Yin , Xiaoran Liu , Ruisi He , Pan Tang , Weijie Yuan , Yong Zeng

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…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Fan Zhang , Zhaocheng Wang , Tianqi Mao , Tianyu Jiao , Yinxiao Zhuo , Miaowen Wen , Wei Xiang , Sheng Chen , George K. Karagiannidis

The advancement to 6G calls for waveforms that transcend static robustness to achieve intelligent adaptability. Affine Frequency Division Multiplexing (AFDM), despite its strength in doubly-dispersive channels, has been confined by chirp…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Yewen Cao , Yulin Shao

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…

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

Affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) is a chirp-based multicarrier waveform that was recently proposed for communication over doubly dispersive channels. Given its chirp nature, AFDM is expected to have superior sensing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-15 Ebrahim Bedeer

This paper proposes an integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) system based on affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) waveform. To this end, a metric set is designed according to not only the maximum tolerable delay/Doppler, but…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-03 Yuanhan Ni , Peng Yuan , Qin Huang , Fan Liu , Zulin Wang

Affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) has garnered significant attention due to its superior performance in high-mobility scenarios, coupled with multiple waveform parameters that provide greater degrees of freedom for system…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Ping Wang , Zulin Wang , Yuanhan Ni , Qu Luo , Yuanfang Ma , Xiaosi Tian , Pei Xiao

**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…