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The Future wireless communication systems face the challenging task of simultaneously providing high quality of service (QoS) and broadband data transmission, while also minimizing power consumption, latency, and system complexity. Although…

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The combination of the effects of Doppler frequency shifts (due to mobility) and phase noise (due to the imperfections of oscillators operating at a high carrier frequency) poses serious challenges to Orthogonal Frequency Division…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Francesco Linsalata , Nassar Ksairi

As 6G communications advance, the demand for new services and capabilities, as defined by the international telecommunication union (ITU), is increasing. A crucial aspect of 6G advancement lies in the development of signal waveforms that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-09 Tongyang Xu , Shuangyang Li , Zhongxiang Wei , Gan Zheng , Izzat Darwazeh

4G/5G wireless standards use orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) which is robust to frequency selectivity. Equalization is possible with a single tap filter, and low-complexity equalization makes OFDM an attractive physical…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-25 Sandesh Rao Mattu , Nishant Mehrotra , Saif Khan Mohammed , Venkatesh Khammammetti , Robert Calderbank

Affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) is a recently proposed multicarrier waveform whose bit error rate (BER) performance in doubly selective channels is comparable to that of orthogonal time-frequency space (OTFS) and superior to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Hongjun Liu , Liaoyuan Zeng , Junhao Tian , Qingyu Li , Fuchen Xu , Chengxiang Liu , Guanghui Liu

Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (OTFS) modulation offers robust performance in high-mobility scenarios by transforming time-varying channels into the delay-Doppler (DD) domain. However, in high-mobility environment such as emerging 5G…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Bo-Yuan Chen , Hsuan-Jung Su

5G systems aim to achieve extremely high data rates, low end-to-end latency and ultra-low power consumption. Recently, there has been considerable interest in the design of 5G physical layer waveforms. One important candidate is Generalised…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-10-27 Ghaith R. Al-Juboori , David Halls , Angela Doufexi , Andrew R. Nix

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) has recently been applied in wireless communication systems due to its high data rate transmission capability with high bandwidth efficiency and its robustness to multi-path delay. Fading is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-01 Farhana Enam , Md. Arif Rabbani , Md. Ashraful Islam , Sohag Sarker

In this paper, we introduce a new 2D modulation scheme referred to as OTFS (Orthogonal Time Frequency & Space) that multiplexes information QAM symbols over new class of carrier waveforms that correspond to localized pulses in a signal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-09 Ronny Hadani , Anton Monk

High mobility environment leads to severe Doppler effects and poses serious challenges to the conventional physical layer based on the widely popular orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). The recent emergence of orthogonal time…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-14 Qinwen Deng , Yao Ge , Zhi Ding

To meet an ever-increasing demand of the spectrum for communication between aircraft and ground terminals, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) based L-band (960-1164MHz) Digital Aeronautical Communication System (LDACS) has…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-14 Niharika Agrawal

Recently, a new precoding technique called orthogonal time-frequency signaling (OTFS) has been proposed for time- and frequency-selective communication channels. OTFS precodes a data frame with a complete set of spreading sequences and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-30 Thomas Zemen , Markus Hofer , David Loeschenbrand

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

Evolving 5G New Radio (NR) to support non-terrestrial networks (NTNs), particularly satellite communication networks, is under exploration in 3GPP. The movement of the spaceborne platforms in NTNs may result in large timing varying Doppler…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Xingqin Lin , Zhipeng Lin , Stefan Eriksson Löwenmark , Johan Rune , Robert Karlsson

This paper explores the flexibility of generalized frequency division multiplexing (GFDM) for achieving the same performance as filter bank multicarrier (FBMC). We present a GFDM configuration where the good spectral containment of FBMC is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-27 Ivo Bizon Franco de Almeida , Luciano Leonel Mendes

Affine Frequency Division Multiplexing (AFDM) has been regarded as a candidate integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) waveform owing to its superior communication performance, outperforming the Orthogonal Time-Frequency Space (OTFS)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-05 Yuanfang Ma , Zulin Wang , Peng Yuan , Qin Huang , Yuanhan Ni

In this paper, we identified the challenges and requirements for the waveform design of the fifth generation mobile communication networks (5G) and compared Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) based waveforms with Filter Bank…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-09 Yinan Qi , Mohammed Al-Imari

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) combined with Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) techniques forms the backbone of modern wireless communication systems. While offering high spectral efficiency and robustness,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-21 Rahul Gulia

According to the recent 3GPP decisions on 6G air interface, orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM)-based waveforms are the primary candidates for future integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems. In this paper, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-12 Jialiang Zhu , Hamza Haif , Abdelali Arous , Huseyin Arslan , Arman Farhang

Delay-Doppler multicarrier modulation (DDMC) techniques have been among the central topics of research for high-Doppler channels. However, a complete transition to DDMC-based waveforms is not yet practically feasible. This is because 5G NR…

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