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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

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…

This paper proposes a novel low probability of intercept (LPI) waveform design approach for orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM)-based integrated sensing and communication systems by introducing artificial phase and Doppler…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-02 Umut Utku Erdem , Lucas Giroto , Tobias Chaloun , Tom Schipper , Taewon Jeong , Christian Karle , Benjamin Nuss , Thomas Zwick

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) is a strong candidate for the sixth-generation wireless network thanks to its strong resilience to delay-Doppler spreads. In this letter, we investigate the error performance of coded AFDM…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Haoran Yin

Affine Frequency Division Multiplexing (AFDM) has attracted considerable attention for its robustness to Doppler effects. However, its high receiver-side computational complexity remains a major barrier to practical deployment. To address…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-19 Shuntian Tang , Zesong Fei , Xinyi Wang , Dongkai Zhou , Zhiqiang Wei , Christos Masouros

The recently proposed multi-chirp waveform, affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM), is considered as a potential candidate for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC). However, acquiring accurate target sensing parameter…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-10 Yirui Luo , Yong Liang Guan , Yao Ge , David González G. , Chau Yuen

This paper proposes a spectrum-efficient nonorthogonal affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) waveform for reliable high-mobility communications in the upcoming sixth-generation (6G) mobile systems. Our core idea is to introduce a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-24 Yu Zhang , Qin Yi , Leila Musavian , Tongyang Xu , Zilong Liu

In this paper, we propose a joint delay-Doppler estimation framework for Rydberg atomic quantum receivers (RAQRs) leveraging affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM), as a future enabler of hyper integrated sensing and communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Hanvit Kim , Hyeon Seok Rou , Kihong Min , Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu , Sunwoo Kim

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

We propose the affine filter bank modulation (AFBM) waveform for enhanced integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) in sixth generation (6G), designed by drawing on concepts from classical filter bank multicarrier modulation (FBMC)…

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

This paper investigates the robustness of affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) and orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation schemes against non-white Gaussian noise, which can model various sources of additive disturbances…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-07 Vincent Savaux , Steve Sawadogo , Hyeon Seok Rou , Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu

Affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) has emerged as a promising waveform for high-mobility communications. However, its equalization remains a practical challenge under general physical channels with off-grid delay and Doppler…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-10 Cheng Shen , Chenyang Zhang , Jinhong Yuan

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

Generalized spatial modulation-aided affine frequency division multiplexing (GSM-AFDM) is conceived for reliable multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications over doubly selective channels. \textcolor{black}{We commence by proposing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-18 Zeping Sui , Zilong Liu , Leila Musavian , Lie-Liang Yang , Lajos Hanzo

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

This paper proposes a novel non-orthogonal affine frequency division multiplexing (nAFDM) waveform for reliable high-mobility communications with enhanced spectral efficiency (SE). The key idea is to introduce a bandwidth compression factor…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Qin Yi , Zilong Liu , Leila Musavian , Zeping Sui

Affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) is a multi-chirp waveform and a promising solution for ultra-reliable communication under doubly dispersive channels. In this paper, we propose two pilot aided channel estimation schemes for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-24 Haoran Yin , Yanqun Tang

This paper proposes a robust beamforming (BF) scheme to enhance physical layer security (PLS) of the downlink of a multibeam satellite system in the presence of either uncoordinated or coordinated eavesdroppers (Eves). Specifically, with…

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