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most citedZak-OTFS with Spread Carrier Waveforms

10 citations · 12 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

eess.SP2026

Low-complexity Equalization of Zak-OTFS Via Neumann Series

Vineetha Yogesh, Saif Khan Mohammed, Sandesh Rao Mattu +2

We describe a general method for selecting an orthonormal basis of carrier waveforms that aligns the basis with delay / Doppler characteristics of a wireless channel. We show that…

cs.IT2026

Modulation Augmentation and Constellation Shaping for LDPC-Coded QPSK

Heping Wan, Joonyoung Cho, Sandesh Rao Mattu +4

While constellation shaping improves spectral efficiency, its application to quadrature phase-shift keying (QPSK) remains limited. We address this limitation by incorporating a sho…

eess.SP2026

Real-Time and Scalable Zak-OTFS Receiver Processing on GPUs

Junyao Zheng, Chung-Hsuan Tung, Yuncheng Yao +6

Orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation offers superior robustness to high-mobility channels compared to conventional orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) wa…

cs.IT2026

Zak-OTFS: A Predictable Physical Layer for Communications and Sensing

Sandesh Rao Mattu, Nishant Mehrotra, Venkatesh Khammammetti +1

This tutorial derives the mathematical foundations of what it means for a carrier waveform to be predictable and non-selective. We focus on Zak-OTFS, where each carrier waveform is…

eess.SP2026

Delay-Doppler Channel Estimation using Arbitrarily Modulated Data Transmissions

Nishant Mehrotra, Sandesh Rao Mattu, Robert Calderbank

Conventional delay-Doppler (DD) communication and sensing systems require transmitting pilot frames at every channel coherence time interval in order to keep track of channel varia…

eess.SP2025

Increasing Data Rate through Shaping on Wireless Channels Subject to Mobility and Delay Spread

Sandesh Rao Mattu, Nishant Mehrotra, Robert Calderbank

This letter describes how to improve performance of cellular systems by combining non-equiprobable signaling (shaping) with low-density parity check (LDPC) coding for an orthogonal…

cs.IT2025

A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Resource Allocation in Uplink Carrier Aggregation in the Presence of Self Interference

Jaswanth Bodempudi, Batta Siva Sairam, Madepalli Haritha +2

Carrier aggregation (CA) is a technique that allows mobile networks to combine multiple carriers to increase user data rate. On the uplink, for power constrained users, this transl…

eess.SP2025

A Design Framework that Unifies 6G Modulation Schemes for Double Selectivity

Nishant Mehrotra, Sandesh Rao Mattu, Robert Calderbank

There is significant recent interest in designing new modulation schemes for doubly-selective channels with large delay and Doppler spreads, where legacy modulation schemes based o…

eess.SP2025

Pulse Shaping Filter Design for Integrated Sensing & Communication with Zak-OTFS

Nishant Mehrotra, Sandesh Rao Mattu, Robert Calderbank

Zak-OTFS provides a framework for integrated sensing & communication (ISAC) in high delay and Doppler spread environments. Pulse shaping filter design enables joint optimization of…

eess.SP2025

Discrete Radar based on Modulo Arithmetic

Nishant Mehrotra, Sandesh Rao Mattu, Saif Khan Mohammed +2

Zak-OTFS is modulation scheme where signals are formed in the delay-Doppler (DD) domain, converted to the time domain (DD) for transmission and reception, then returned to the DD d…

eess.SP2025

Low-Complexity Equalization of Zak-OTFS in the Frequency Domain

Sandesh Rao Mattu, Nishant Mehrotra, Saif Khan Mohammed +2

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-…

eess.SP2025

Improving the Spectral Efficiency of Zak-OTFS via Mutually Unbiased Bases

Sandesh Rao Mattu, Nishant Mehrotra, Robert Calderbank

Orthogonal signaling or Nyquist signaling limits the number of information symbols transmitted in bandwidth and time to be , the time-bandwidth product. Transmitting mo…

eess.SP2025★ 1 cited

Differential Communication in Channels with Mobility and Delay Spread using Zak-OTFS

Sandesh Rao Mattu, Nishant Mehrotra, Robert Calderbank

Zak-transform based orthogonal time frequency space (Zak-OTFS) is a delay-Doppler (DD) domain modulation scheme in which the signal processing is carried out in the DD domain. The…

eess.SP2025

Low-Complexity Frequency Domain Equalization of Zak-OTFS in Doubly-Spread Channels

Saif Khan Mohammed, Sandesh Rao Mattu, Nishant Mehrotra +2

We communicate over wireless channels by first estimating and then equalizing the effective channel. In Zak-OTFS (orthogonal time frequency space) modulation the carrier waveform i…

eess.SP2025★ 10 cited

Zak-OTFS with Spread Carrier Waveforms

Nishant Mehrotra, Sandesh Rao Mattu, Robert Calderbank

Zak-OTFS (orthogonal time frequency space) modulation is a communication framework that parameterizes the wireless channel in the delay-Doppler (DD) domain, where the parameters ma…

eess.SP2025

Zak-OTFS for Mutually Unbiased Sensing and Communication

Nishant Mehrotra, Sandesh Rao Mattu, Robert Calderbank

Waveforms with ideal ambiguity functions are fundamental to integrated sensing and communication, to active sensing (radar), and to uplink multiple access. We describe a general me…

eess.SP2025

Low-Complexity Detection of Multiple Preambles in the Presence of Mobility and Delay Spread

Sandesh Rao Mattu, Beyza Dabak, Venkatesh Khammammetti +1

Current wireless infrastructure is optimized to support downlink applications. This paper anticipates the emergence of applications where engineering focus shifts from downlink to…

eess.SP2024★ 1 cited

Delay-Doppler Signal Processing with Zadoff-Chu Sequences

Sandesh Rao Mattu, Imran Ali Khan, Venkatesh Khammammetti +4

Much of the engineering behind current wireless systems has focused on designing an efficient and high-throughput downlink to support human-centric communication such as video stre…

cs.IT2023

On the Bit Error Performance of OTFS Modulation using Discrete Zak Transform

Vineetha Yogesh, Vighnesh S Bhat, Sandesh Rao Mattu +1

In orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation, Zak transform approach is a natural approach for converting information symbols multiplexed in the DD domain directly to time…

cs.IT2022

Learning based Channel Estimation and Phase Noise Compensation in Doubly-Selective Channels

Sandesh Rao Mattu, A. Chockalingam

In this letter, we propose a learning based channel estimation scheme for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems in the presence of phase noise in doubly-selecti…

cs.IT2022

Deep Channel Prediction: A DNN Framework for Receiver Design in Time-Varying Fading Channels

Sandesh Rao Mattu, Lakshmi Narasimhan T, A. Chockalingam

In time-varying fading channels, channel coefficients are estimated using pilot symbols that are transmitted every coherence interval. For channels with high Doppler spread, the ra…