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High-mobility scenarios will be a critical part of 6G systems. Since the widely deployed orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) waveform suffers from subcarrier orthogonality loss under severe Doppler spread, delay-Doppler domain…

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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)…

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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

Next-generation wireless systems will offer integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) functionalities not only in order to enable new applications, but also as a means to mitigate challenges such as doubly-dispersive channels, which…

A new circularly pulse-shaped (CPS) precoding orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) waveform, or CPS-OFDM for short, is proposed in this paper. CPS-OFDM, characterized by user-specific precoder flexibility, possesses the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Yenming Huang , Borching Su

In this paper, we analyze the recently discovered delay-Doppler plane orthogonal pulse (DDOP), which is essential for delay-Doppler plane multi-carrier modulation waveform. In particular, we introduce a local orthogonality property of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Hai Lin , Jinhong Yuan

We consider a bistatic vehicular integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) system that employs the recently proposed orthogonal chirp division multiplexing (OCDM) multicarrier waveform. As a stand-alone communications waveform, OCDM has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Sangeeta Bhattacharjee , Kumar Vijay Mishra , Ramesh Annavajjala , Chandra R. Murthy

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

Autonomous driving is reshaping the way humans travel, with millimeter wave (mmWave) radar playing a crucial role in this transformation to enabe vehicle-to-everything (V2X). Although chirp is widely used in mmWave radar systems for its…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-23 Zhuoran Li , Shufeng Tan , Zhen Gao , Yi Tao , Zhonghuai Wu , Zhongxiang Li , Chun Hu , Dezhi Zheng

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

This paper investigates the design of orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) waveforms for bistatic integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems. In the considered framework, an ISAC transmitter jointly optimizes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Ruolin Du , Zhiqiang Wei , Zai Yang , Ya-Feng Liu , Bingpeng Zhou , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

We present Affine Frequency Division Multiplexing (AFDM), a new chirp-based multicarrier transceiver scheme for high mobility communications in next-generation wireless systems. AFDM is based on discrete affine Fourier transform (DAFT), a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Ali Bemani , Nassar Ksairi , Marios Kountouris

Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) is a dominant waveform in modern wireless systems, yet its high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) and limited adaptability hinder efficient support for integrated communication and sensing.…

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This paper presents a unified and system-agnostic analysis of the ambiguity function (AF) characteristics of four representative multicarrier waveforms, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), orthogonal time frequency space…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-14 Hyeon Seok Rou , Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu

The advancement to 6G calls for waveforms that transcend static robustness to achieve intelligent adaptability. Affine Frequency Division Multiplexing (AFDM), despite its strength in doubly-dispersive channels, has been confined by chirp…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Yewen Cao , Yulin Shao

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…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-07 Yuanhan Ni , Fan Liu , Haoran Yin , Yanqun Tang , Zulin Wang

Affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) is a recently proposed communication waveform for time-varying channel scenarios. As a chirp-based multicarrier modulation technique it can not only satisfy the needs of multiple scenarios in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-01 Jiajun Zhu , Yanqun Tang , Xizhang Wei , Haoran Yin , Jinming Du , Zhengpeng Wang , Yuqinng Liu

As the standardization of sixth generation (6G) wireless systems accelerates, there is a growing consensus in favor of evolutionary waveforms that offer new features while maximizing compatibility with orthogonal frequency division…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-17 Hyeon Seok Rou , Vincent Savaux , Zeping Sui , Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu , Zilong Liu

A promising waveform candidate for future joint sensing and communication systems is orthogonal frequencydivision multiplexing (OFDM). For such systems, supporting multiple transmit antennas requires multiplexing methods for the generation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Oliver Lang , Christian Hofbauer , Reinhard Feger , Mario Huemer

We propose an orthogonal chirp waveform design for underwater acoustic (UW-A) communications and analyze the cross-correlation characteristics of orthogonal chirp waveforms in coherent and non-coherent detections. We consider information…

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