The application of the orthogonal time frequency space(OTFS)modulation in multiple-antenna systems is investigated.The diversity and/or the multiplexing gain can be achieved by deploying various multiple-antenna techn...The application of the orthogonal time frequency space(OTFS)modulation in multiple-antenna systems is investigated.The diversity and/or the multiplexing gain can be achieved by deploying various multiple-antenna techniques,and thus the reliability and/or the spectral efficiency are improved correspondingly.We provide two classes of OTFSbased multiple-antenna approaches for both the open-loop and the closed-loop systems.Spe⁃cifically,in the open-loop system,a transmitting diversity approach,which resembles the space-time coding technique,is proposed by allocating the information symbols appropriate⁃ly in the delay-Doppler domain.In the closed-loop system,we adopt the Tomlinson-Harashi⁃ma precoding in our derived delay-Doppler equivalent transmission model.Numerical evalu⁃ations demonstrate the advantages of applying the multiple-antenna techniques to the OTFS.At last,several challenges and opportunities are presented.展开更多
基金supported in part by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grant Nos.2020JBM081 and 2020JBZD005in part by the National Key R&D Program of China under Grant 2020YFB1806903in part by the National Natural Science Foundation under Grant No.U1834210.
文摘The application of the orthogonal time frequency space(OTFS)modulation in multiple-antenna systems is investigated.The diversity and/or the multiplexing gain can be achieved by deploying various multiple-antenna techniques,and thus the reliability and/or the spectral efficiency are improved correspondingly.We provide two classes of OTFSbased multiple-antenna approaches for both the open-loop and the closed-loop systems.Spe⁃cifically,in the open-loop system,a transmitting diversity approach,which resembles the space-time coding technique,is proposed by allocating the information symbols appropriate⁃ly in the delay-Doppler domain.In the closed-loop system,we adopt the Tomlinson-Harashi⁃ma precoding in our derived delay-Doppler equivalent transmission model.Numerical evalu⁃ations demonstrate the advantages of applying the multiple-antenna techniques to the OTFS.At last,several challenges and opportunities are presented.