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The recently proposed affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) modulation has been considered as a promising technology for narrowband doubly-dispersive channels. However, the time-scaling effects, i.e., pulse widening and pulse…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Xiangxiang Li , Haiyan Wang , Yao Ge , Xiaohong Shen , Yong Liang Guan , Miaowen Wen , Chau Yuen

We present a novel physical-layer secure communications scheme based on a chirp-permuted variant of the affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) waveform recently proposed for sixth-generation (6G) systems, which ensures that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Hyeon Seok Rou , Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu

We describe a novel index modulation (IM) scheme exploiting a unique feature of the recently proposed affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) in doubly-dispersive (DD) channels. Dubbed AFDM chirp-permutation-index modulation (CPIM),…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-06 Hyeon Seok Rou , Kein Yukiyoshi , Taku Mikuriya , Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu , Naoki Ishikawa

Affine Frequency Division Multiplexing (AFDM) is considered as a promising solution for next-generation wireless systems due to its satisfactory performance in high-mobility scenarios. By adjusting AFDM parameters to match the multi-path…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Jin Xu , Zijian Liang , Kai Niu

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

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

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

Research results on Affine Frequency Division Multiplexing (AFDM) reveal that it experiences the same Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) problem as conventional Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM). On the other side, some…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-22 Zhou Lu , Mohammed El-Hajjar , Lie-liang Yang

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

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 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

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is a key feature of next-generation wireless networks, enabling a wide range of emerging applications such as vehicle-to-everything (V2X) and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which operate in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-03 Haoran Yin , Yanqun Tang , Jun Xiong , Fan Liu , Yuanhan Ni , Qu Luo , Roberto Bomfin , Marwa Chafii , Marios Kountouris , Christos Masouros

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

Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) requires the development of a waveform capable of efficiently supporting both communication and sensing functionalities. This paper proposes a novel waveform that combines the benefits of both the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-23 Pankaj Kumar , Mohammed El-Hajjar , Ibrahim A. Hemadeh , Yasser Mestrah , Suraj Srivastava , Aditya K. Jagannatham , Lajos Hanzo

Affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) has emerged as a promising integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) waveform due to its intrinsic chirp signalling nature. Nevertheless, practical AFDM-based ISAC still faces two key…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-27 Lingsheng Meng , Yong Liang Guan , Zilong Liu , Yirui Luo , Pingzhi Fan

Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) is regarded as a key technology in next-generation (6G) mobile communication systems. Affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) is a recently proposed waveform that achieves optimal diversity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Ali Bemani , Nassar Ksairi , Marios Kountouris

Affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) and orthogonal AFDM access (O-AFDMA) are promising techniques based on chirp signals, which are able to suppress the performance deterioration caused by Doppler shifts in high-mobility…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Yiwei Tao , Miaowen Wen , Yao Ge , Tianqi Mao , Lixia Xiao , Jun Li

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 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

This paper investigates the sensing potential of affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) in high-mobility integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) from the perspective of radar waveforms. We introduce an innovative parameter…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Jiajun Zhu , Yanqun Tang , Cong Yi , Haoran Yin , Yuanhan Ni , Fan Liu , Zhiqiang Wei , Huseyin Arslan