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Multiple-input multiple-output and orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) are the key technologies in 4G and subsequent wireless communication systems. Conventionally, the MIMO-OFDM receiver is performed by multiple cascaded…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Ziyou Ren , Nan Cheng , Ruijin Sun , Xiucheng Wang , Ning Lu , Wenchao Xu

We consider spectrally-precoded OFDM waveforms for 5G wideband transmission in sub-6GHz band. In this densely packed spectrum, a low out-of-band (OOB) waveform is a critical 5G component to achieve the promised high spectral efficiency. By…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-03 Renaud-Alexandre Pitaval , Branislav M. Popović , Medhat Mohamad , Rickard Nilsson , Jaap van de Beek

N-continuous orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (NC-OFDM) is a promising technique to obtain significant sidelobe suppression for baseband OFDM signals, in future 5G wireless communications. However, the precoder of NC-OFDM usually…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-20 Peng Wei , Lilin Dan , Yue Xiao , Wei Xiang , Shaoqian Li

Today, we have required to accommodate a large number of users under a single base station. This can be possible only if we have some flexibility over the spectrum. Previously we have lots of multiplexing methods to accommodate large number…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-01 Sutanu Ghosh

The expected operating scenarios of 5G pose a great challenge to orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) which has poor out of band (OoB) spectral properties, stringent synchronization requirements, and large symbol duration.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Shashank Tiwari , Suvra Sekhar Das , Kalyan Kumar Bandyopadhyay

We investigate the robustness of affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) and orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) waveforms against passive eavesdroppers performing brute-force demodulation to intercepted signals, under the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-23 Vincent Savaux , Hyeon Seok Rou , Zeping Sui , Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu , Zilong Liu

The Fourth Generation (4G) of mobile communication systems was optimized to offer high data rates with high terminal mobility by ensuring strict synchronism and perfect orthogonality. However, the trend for novel applications, that had not…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-15 Zeineb Hraiech , Mohamed Siala , Fatma Adelkefi

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) has been widely recognized as the representative waveform for 5G wireless networks, which can directly support sensing/positioning with existing infrastructure. To guarantee superior…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-21 Fan Zhang , Tianqi Mao , Ruiqi Liu , Zhu Han , Sheng Chen , Zhaocheng Wang

The next generation of wireless networks will face different challenges from new scenarios. The main contribution of this paper is to show that Generalized Frequency Division Multiplexing (GFDM), as a baseline of flexible circular filtered…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-17 Ivan Gaspar , Luciano Mendes , Maximilian Matthé , Nicola Michailow , Dan Zhang , Antonio Albertiy , Gerhard Fettweis

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM)-based waveforms are used for communication links in many current and emerging Internet of Things (IoT) applications, including the latest WiFi standards. For such OFDM-based transceivers,…

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 promising chirp-assisted multicarrier waveform for future high-mobility communications. This paper is devoted to enhanced receiver design for multiple input and multiple output AFDM…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-26 Qu Luo , Jing Zhu , Zilong Liu , Yanqun Tang , Pei Xiao , Gaojie Chen , Jia Shi

A novel modulation scheme termed orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing with subcarrier number modulation (OFDM-SNM) has been proposed and regarded as one of the promising candidate modulation schemes for next generation networks.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-02 Shuping Dang , Guoqing Ma , Basem Shihada , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

The recently introduced orthogonal time frequency space modulation (OTFSM) is more robust to large narrow-band Doppler frequency shift than the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), used in the 5G standard. In this paper it is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Pavel Karpovich , Tomasz P. Zielinski

Future wireless communication systems are demanding a more flexible physical layer. GFDM is a block filtered multicarrier modulation scheme proposed to add multiple degrees of freedom and cover other waveforms in a single framework. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-11 Ivan Gaspar , Maximilian Matthé , Nicola Michailow , Luciano Leonel Mendes , Dan Zhang , Gerhard Fettweis

This paper focuses on energy recycling in full-duplex (FD) relaying multiple-input-multiple-output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) communication. The loop self-interference (SI) due to full-duplexing is seen as an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Ali A. Nasir , H. D. Tuan , T. Q. Duong , H. V. Poor

Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) is a promising waveform candidate for future joint sensing and communication systems. It is well known that the OFDM waveform is vulnerable to in-phase and quadrature-phase (IQ) imbalance,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-17 Oliver Lang , Christian Hofbauer , Moritz Tockner , Reinhard Feger , Thomas Wagner , Mario Huemer

As wireless communication applications evolve from traditional multipath environments to high-mobility scenarios like unmanned aerial vehicles, multiplexing techniques have advanced accordingly. Traditional single-carrier frequency-domain…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Lei Liu , Yuhao Chi , Shunqi Huang , Zhaoyang Zhang

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

Orthogonal delay-Doppler (DD) division multiplexing (ODDM) modulation has recently emerged as a promising paradigm for ensuring reliable communications in doubly-selective channels. This work investigates the spectra and orthogonality…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-20 Akram Shafie , Jun Tong , Jinhong Yuan , Taka Sakurai , Paul Fitzpatrick , Yuting Fang , Yixuan Xie