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Delay-Doppler Channel Estimation Using Arbitrarily Modulated Data Transmissions

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Nishant Mehrotra
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Sandesh Rao Mattu
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Robert Calderbank
DOI:10.1109/lwc.2026.3727454delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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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 variations at the cost of spectral efficiency. In this letter, we propose an approach to utilize data transmissions that modulate arbitrary waveforms with zero-mean, unit average energy symbols for DD channel estimation without requiring pilot transmissions in every coherence time interval. Numerical evaluation over practical doubly-selective channel models demonstrate $\sim 1.8 \times $ improvement in uncoded spectral efficiency with our proposed data-based approach over conventional pilot-based approaches across various 6G modulation schemes.
Keywords:
6G
delay-Doppler communication
doubly-selective channels
integrated sensing and communication

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IEEE Wireless Communications Letters
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duke university
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