
Delay-Doppler Communications and Sensing
Principles, Advances, and Applications of OTFS
- 1st Edition - January 1, 2026
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Authors: Shuangyang Li, Weijie Yuan, Zhiqiang Wei, Jinhong Yuan, Giuseppe Caire
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 6 5 2 8 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 6 5 2 9 - 7
Delay Doppler Communications and Sensing: Principles, Advances and Applications of OTFS provides a comprehensive exploration of the principles and cutting-edge developments of del… Read more
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With this book the reader will:
- Gain a comprehensive understanding of the Zak transform and DD domain wireless channels
- Understand the concept of DD communications, including the popular variants of OTFS
- Learn implementation details of DD communications and sensing
- Follow state-of-the-art developments in DD communications and sensing
- Grasp the insights and physical interpretations of DD communications and sensing
- Have access to programming codes for OTFS and DD communications and sensing
- A comprehensive overview of both fundamental principles and cutting-edge research, giving a deep understanding of the underlying concepts and techniques in Delay Doppler (DD) communications and sensing
- Includes practical content such as coding strategies, channel estimation techniques, and equalization methods, accompanied by tips and guidance for practical implementation
- Explores a wide range of applications, from radar sensing to DD Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) configurations, making it relevant for researchers, engineers, and practitioners in various domains
- Highlights outstanding research challenges and future directions, stimulating further exploration, and inspiring readers to contribute to the advancement of DD communications and sensing
1. Introduction
2. Fundamentals of wireless channels for communications and sensing
3. Principles of Zak transform
Part II (Communications)
4. Fundamentals of DD communications and implementation
5. Pulse shaped OTFS based on the Zak transform
6. Channel estimation for DD communications
7. Equalization and detection for DD communications
8. Performance analysis for DD communications
9. DD MIMO communications
Part III (Radar Sensing)
10. Fundamentals of DD sensing and implementation
11. Waveform design for DD sensing
12. Advance algorithms for DD sensing
13. Performance analysis for DD sensing
14. Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) in the DD domain
Part IV (Conclusions)
15. Conclusion and future research directions
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 1, 2026
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
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Shuangyang Li
Shuangyang Li received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Xidian University, China, in 2013, 2016, and 2021, respectively. He received his second Ph.D. degree from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia, in 2022. He is a recipient of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) fellowship 2022 and is currently a research assistant at Technical University of Berlin (TU-Berlin). Prior to that, he was a research associate at University of Western Australia (UWA). He was the organizer/chair for several workshops and tutorials on related topics of orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) in IEEE conferences. He has co-authored the IEEE ComSoc Best Readings on OTFS and Delay Doppler Signal Processing. He is a founding member and currently the secretary of the special interest group (SIG) on OTFS. His research interests include signal processing, applied information theory, and their applications to communication systems, with a specific focus on waveform designs.
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Weijie Yuan
Weijie Yuan received his B. Engineering and B. Economics degrees from Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), China, in 2013, and his Ph. D degrees from BIT and University of Technology Sydney, Australia, in 2019. He is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, the Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China. Prior to that, he was a Research Associate with the Wireless Communications Lab in the University of New South Wales, Australia. During 2017 and 2019, he was a research assistant in the Centre of Excellence in IoT and Telecommunications, University of Sydney, Australia.
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Zhiqiang Wei
Zhiqiang Wei received the B.E. degree in information engineering from Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), Xi’an, China, in 2012, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and telecommunications from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia, in 2019. From 2019 to 2020, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with UNSW. Since 2021, he has been a Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Institute for Digital Communications, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany. He is currently an Associate Professor with the School of Mathematics and Statistics, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an. His current research interests include statistic and array signal processing, resource allocation optimization, and orthogonal time-frequency space modulation. He has received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) in 2018. He has been serving as the TPC Co-Chair for workshops on orthogonal time-frequency space (OTFS) in IEEE ICCC 2021, IEEE ICC 2021, and IEEE ICC 2022.
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Jinhong Yuan
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Giuseppe Caire
Giuseppe Caire received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Politecnico di Torino (Italy), in 1990, his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 1992, and his Ph.D. from Politecnico di Torino in 1994. He was a recipient of the Associazione Elettrotechnica Italiana‘s G. Someda Scholarship in 1991, and was a post-doctoral research fellow with the European Space Agency (ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands) from 1994-1995.
He is currently a professor of electrical engineering with the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and an Alexander von Humboldt Professor with the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of the Technical University of Berlin.
Giuseppe Caire has been a Fellow of IEEE since 2005. He served on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society from 2004 to 2007, was an officer of the society from 2008 to 2013, and was president of the IEEE Information Theory Society in 2011. His main research interests are in the fields of communications theory, information theory, and channel and source coding, with a particular focus on wireless communications.