Beyond Legacy OFDM: A Mobility-Adaptive Multi-Gear Framework for 6G
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| author | Marchese, Mauro Tagliaferri, Dario Wymeersch, Henk Keskin, Musa Furkan Viterbo, Emanuele Savazzi, Pietro |
| author_facet | Marchese, Mauro Tagliaferri, Dario Wymeersch, Henk Keskin, Musa Furkan Viterbo, Emanuele Savazzi, Pietro |
| contents | While Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) has confirmed orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) as the baseline waveform for sixth-generation (6G), its performance is severely compromised in the high-mobility scenarios envisioned for 6G. Building upon the GEARBOX-PHY vision, we present gear-switching OFDM (GS-OFDM): a unified framework in which the base station (BS) adaptively selects among three gears, ranging from legacy OFDM to delay-Doppler domain processing based on the channel mobility conditions experienced by the user equipments (UEs). We illustrate the benefit of adaptive gear switching for communication throughput and, finally, we conclude with an outlook on research challenges and opportunities. |
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| spellingShingle | Beyond Legacy OFDM: A Mobility-Adaptive Multi-Gear Framework for 6G Marchese, Mauro Tagliaferri, Dario Wymeersch, Henk Keskin, Musa Furkan Viterbo, Emanuele Savazzi, Pietro Signal Processing While Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) has confirmed orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) as the baseline waveform for sixth-generation (6G), its performance is severely compromised in the high-mobility scenarios envisioned for 6G. Building upon the GEARBOX-PHY vision, we present gear-switching OFDM (GS-OFDM): a unified framework in which the base station (BS) adaptively selects among three gears, ranging from legacy OFDM to delay-Doppler domain processing based on the channel mobility conditions experienced by the user equipments (UEs). We illustrate the benefit of adaptive gear switching for communication throughput and, finally, we conclude with an outlook on research challenges and opportunities. |
| title | Beyond Legacy OFDM: A Mobility-Adaptive Multi-Gear Framework for 6G |
| topic | Signal Processing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.29721 |