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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…

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Affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) has recently emerged as an excellent backward-compatible 6G waveform. In this paper, we study matched filtering (MF) assisted channel estimation (CE) for AFDM systems in complex doubly selective…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-18 Xiangjun Li , Zilong Liu , Zhengchun Zhou , Pingzhi Fan

Affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) has recently emerged as a promising waveform for high-mobility communications due to its resilience to Doppler effects and its advantages for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC). AFDM…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-15 Hengxuan Liu , Vincent Savaux , Arman Farhang

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…

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This paper presents a novel symbiotic radio system for integrated sensing and backscatter communication (ISABC) technique that enables signal-domain interference-free coexistence of the primary communication signal and the backscatter…

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We consider a multicarrier chirp-based waveform for joint radar and communication (JRC) systems and derive its time discrete periodic ambiguity function (AF). An advantage of the waveform is that it includes a set of waveform parameters…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Fredrik Berggren , Branislav M. Popovic

In this paper, we propose a joint delay-Doppler estimation framework for Rydberg atomic quantum receivers (RAQRs) leveraging affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM), as a future enabler of hyper integrated sensing and communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Hanvit Kim , Hyeon Seok Rou , Kihong Min , Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu , Sunwoo Kim

Affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) is a promising new multicarrier technique for high-mobility communications based on discrete affine Fourier transform (DAFT). By properly tuning two parameters in the DAFT module, the effective…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Haozhi Yuan , Yin Xu , Xinghao Guo , Yao Ge , Tianyao Ma , Haoyang Li , Dazhi He , Wenjun Zhang

Affine Frequency Division Multiplexing (AFDM) is a brand new chirp-based multi-carrier (MC) waveform for high mobility communications, with promising advantages over Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) and other MC waveforms.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Rongyou Cao , Yuheng Zhong , Jiangbin Lyu , Deqing Wang , Liqun Fu

**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…

High Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) is still a common issue in multicarrier signal modulation systems such as Orthogonal Chirp Division Multiplexing (OCDM) and Affine Frequency Division Multiplexing (AFDM), which are envisioned to play…

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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

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

Affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) has recently emerged as a resilient waveform candidate for high-mobility next-generation wireless systems. However, current literature mostly focuses on discrete time (DT) models, often…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-06 Michele Mirabella , Hyeon Seok Rou , Pasquale Di Viesti , Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu , Giorgio Matteo Vitetta

Chirp waveform plays a significant role in radar and communication systems for its ability of pulse compression and spread spectrum. This paper presents a principle of orthogonally multiplexing a bank of linear chirp waveforms within the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-26 Xing Ouyang , Jian Zhao

In this paper, a unified framework for chirp-domain waveforms, including orthogonal chirp division multiplexing (OCDM) and affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM), is developed. Based on their continuous-time representations, we show…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Yating Jiang , Hai Lin , Yi-Han Chiang , Jun Tong

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

This paper introduces a secure affine frequency division multiplexing (SE-AFDM) for wireless communication systems to enhance communication security. Besides configuring the parameter c1 to obtain communication reliability under doubly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-24 Ping Wang , Zulin Wang , Yuanfang Ma , Xiaosi Tian , Yuanhan Ni

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

This paper investigates the ambiguity function (AF) of the emerging affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) waveform for Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) signaling under a pulse shaping regime. Specifically, we first derive…

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