Study and Analysis of OTFS and OFDM

Abstract

High mobility wireless communication systems have been proposed to be robust to channel-induced Doppler shift using Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (OTFS) modulation. The OTFS modulation technique is described in this paper. In addition to being in the delay-Doppler (DD) domain, OTFS has a unique and important feature. The OTFS modulation offers maximum diversity over frequency and time when coupled with an equalizer. This technique converts fading, time-varying wireless channels into time-independent, non-fading interactions that reveal their underlying geometry. Even in challenging 5G deployment settings, OTFS achieves Massive MIMO throughput gains by scaling throughput linearly with MIMO order. An analysis of peak to average power ratio (PAPR) of OFTS modulation wave forms is presented in this paper. OTFS with rectangular pulses is characterized analytically using the complementary cumulative distribution function (CCDF). The simulated CCDF for the PAPR of OTFS is compared with that for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) for different pulse shapes. The results show that OTFS has a better PAPR than OFDM.