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Orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation offers superior robustness to high-mobility channels compared to conventional orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) waveforms. However, its explicit delay-Doppler (DD) domain…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-03 Junyao Zheng , Chung-Hsuan Tung , Yuncheng Yao , Nishant Mehrotra , Sandesh Mattu , Zhenzhou Qi , Danyang Zhuo , Robert Calderbank , Tingjun Chen

This paper investigates the random access procedure for non-terrestrial networks operating without global navigation satellite system (GNSS) support. In such scenarios, positioning uncertainties can reach several kilometers, which directly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-05 Marius Caus , Musbah Shaat

Zak-OTFS (orthogonal time frequency space) modulation is a communication framework that parameterizes the wireless channel in the delay-Doppler (DD) domain, where the parameters map directly to physical attributes of the scatterers that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-21 Nishant Mehrotra , Sandesh Rao Mattu , Robert Calderbank

In orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation, Zak transform approach is a natural approach for converting information symbols multiplexed in the DD domain directly to time domain for transmission, and vice versa at the receiver.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Vineetha Yogesh , Vighnesh S Bhat , Sandesh Rao Mattu , A. Chockalingam

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

To accommodate current machine type communications (MTC), an uplink waveform is proposed where MTC nodes use one carrier to transmit signal, and central nodes demodulate different nodes' signal jointly. Furthermore, the carrier bandwidth is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-15 Guanping Lu , Robert C. Qiu , Wenxian Yu

This paper presents a linear complexity iterative rake detector for the recently proposed orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation scheme. The basic idea is to extract and combine the received multipath components of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-30 Tharaj Thaj , Emanuele Viterbo

In Zak-OTFS (orthogonal time frequency space) modulation the carrier waveform is a pulse in the delay-Doppler (DD) domain, formally a quasi-periodic localized function with specific periods along delay and Doppler. When the channel delay…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-21 Saif Khan Mohammed , Amit Kumar Pathak , Muhammad Ubadah , Ronny Hadani , Ananthanarayanan Chockalingam , Robert Calderbank

In massive machine-type communications (mMTC), grant-free access is a key enabler for a massive number of users to be connected to a base station with low signaling overhead and low latency. In this paper, a two-stage genetic algorithm (GA)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Nam Yul Yu

In this paper, a novel uncoordinated random access (URA) protocol is presented to address the pressing demand for massive connectivity with low access latency in future massive machine type communication (mMTC) scenarios. The proposed URA…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Pengyu Gao , Qu Luo , Jing Zhu , Gaojie Chen , Pei Xiao , Chuan Heng Foh

Orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation was proposed to tackle the destructive Doppler effects in wireless communications, with potential applications to many other areas. In this paper, we investigate its application to radar…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-29 P. Raviteja , Khoa T. Phan , Yi Hong , Emanuele Viterbo

In this paper, we propose a Doppler pre-compensation scheme for high-mobility orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) uplink, where a high-speed terminal transmits signals to the base station (BS). Considering that the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-24 Wei Guo , Weile Zhang , Pengcheng Mu , Feifei Gao , Bobin Yao

In this correspondence, we propose a new receiver design for high-mobility orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) downlink transmissions with a large-scale antenna array. The downlink signal experiences the challenging fast…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-19 Wei Guo , Weile Zhang , Pengcheng Mu , Feifei Gao

Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (OTFS) is a novel modulation scheme designed in the Doppler-delay domain to fully exploit time and frequency diversity of general time-varying channels. In this paper, we present a novel discrete-time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Ahmad RezazadehReyhani , Arman Farhang , Mingyue Ji , Rong Rong Chen , Behrouz Farhang-Boroujeny

In this paper, we propose time and frequency synchronization techniques for the uplink of multiuser orthogonal time frequency space (MU-OTFS) in high-mobility scenarios. We introduce a spectrally efficient and practical pilot pattern where…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-23 Mohsen Bayat , Sanoopkumar P. S. , Arman Farhang

This paper proposes a two-phase orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS)-based integrated positioning and communication (IPAC) framework under realistic low-resolution analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). In the uplink phase, the positioning…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Yueyi Yang , Zeping Sui , Zilong Liu , Leila Musavian

We propose a novel random multiple access (RMA) scheme with quality of service (QoS) guarantees for machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. We consider a slotted uncoordinated data transmission period during which machine type…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Rana Abbas , Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

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…

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

Uplink (UL) dominated sporadic transmission and stringent latency requirement of massive machine type communication (mMTC) forces researchers to abandon complicated grant-acknowledgment based legacy networks. UL grant-free non-orthogonal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-02 Shah Mahdi Hasan , Kaushik Mahata , Md Mashud Hyder