most citedZak-OTFS with Spread Carrier Waveforms

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cs.IT2026

Delay-Doppler Duality: Simplifying Exact Equalization of Zak-OTFS in Time or in Frequency

Mudasir Ahmad Sheikh, Robert Calderbank

The Zak-OTFS carrier waveform is a pulse in the delay-Doppler (DD) domain, and given the input-output (I/O) relation at one DD point in a frame, we can predict the I/O relation at…

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

Improving Doppler Resilience of OFDM through Delay-Doppler Sensing

Danish Nisar, Saif Khan Mohammed, Muhammad Ubadah +2

The performance of traditional CP-OFDM degrades severely in doubly-spread wireless channels due to inter-carrier interference (ICI). In this paper, we propose DD domain sensing bas…

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…

cs.IT2026

A Universal Neural Receiver that Learns at the Speed of Wireless

Lingjia Liu, Lizhong Zheng, Yang Yi +1

Today we design wireless networks using mathematical models that govern communication in different propagation environments. We rely on measurement campaigns to deliver parametrize…

eess.SP2026

Does 6G Need a New Waveform: Comparing Zak-OTFS with CP-OFDM

Imran Ali Khan, Saif Khan Mohammed, Ronny Hadani +6

Across the world, there is growing interest in new waveforms, Zak-OTFS in particular, and over-the-air implementations are starting to appear. The choice between OFDM and Zak-OTFS…

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…

eess.SP2025

Over-the-Air Transmission of Zak-OTFS on mmWave Communications Testbed

Sabarinath Ramachandran, Venkatesh Khammammetti, Prasanthi Maddala +3

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication offers vast bandwidth for next-generation wireless systems but faces severe path loss, Doppler effects, and hardware impairments. Orthogonal…

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

Communication in a Fractional World: MIMO MC-OTFS Precoder Prediction

Evan Allen, Karim Said, Robert Calderbank +1

As 6G technologies advance, international bodies and regulatory agencies are intensifying efforts to extend seamless connectivity especially for high-mobility scenarios such as Mob…

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

Zak-OTFS over CP-OFDM

Saif Khan Mohammed, Saurabh Prakash, Muhammad Ubadah +7

Zak-Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (Zak-OTFS) modulation has been shown to achieve significantly better performance compared to the standardized Cyclic-Prefix Orthogonal Frequency…

eess.SP2025

Instantaneous Polarimetry with Zak-OTFS

Nishant Mehrotra, Sandesh Rao Mattu, Robert Calderbank

Polarimetry, which is the ability to measure the scattering response of the environment across orthogonal polarizations, is fundamental to enhancing wireless communication and rada…

eess.SP2025

Zak-OTFS Based Coded Random Access for Uplink mMTC

Alessandro Mirri, Venkatesh Khammammetti, Beyza Dabak +3

This paper proposes a grant-free coded random access (CRA) scheme for uplink massive machine-type communications (mMTC), based on Zak-orthogonal time frequency space (Zak-OTFS) mod…

eess.SP2025

Zak-OTFS based Multiuser Uplink in Doubly-Spread Channels

Imran Ali Khan, Saif Khan Mohammed, Ronny Hadani +2

Wireless users with different characteristics will be expected to share spectrum in next generation communication networks. One of the great strengths of wireless networks based on…

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

Precoded Zak-OTFS for Per-Carrier Equalization

Saif Khan Mohammed, Amit Kumar Pathak, Muhammad Ubadah +3

In Zak-OTFS (orthogonal time frequency space) modulation the carrier waveform is a pulse in the delay-Doppler (DD) domain, formally a quasi-periodic localized function with specifi…

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…