Practical Pulse-Shaping Waveforms for Reduced-Cyclic-Prefix OTFS

In this paper, we model M × N orthogonal time frequency space modulation (OTFS) over a P-path doubly dispersive channel with delays less than τ
_max
and Doppler shifts in the range (ν
_min
,ν
_max
). We first derive in a simple matrix form the input-output relation in the delay-Doppler domain for practical (e.g., rectangular) pulse-shaping waveforms, next generalize it to arbitrary waveforms. This relation extends the original OTFS input-output approach, which assumes ideal pulse-shaping waveforms that are bi-orthogonal in both time and frequency. We show that the OTFS input-output relation has a simple sparse structure that enables one to use low-complexity detection algorithms. Different from previous work, only a single cyclic prefix is added at the end of the OTFS frame, significantly reducing the overhead, without incurring any penalty from the loss of bi-orthogonality of the pulse-shaping waveforms. Finally, we compare the OTFS performance with different pulse-shaping waveforms, and show that the reduction of out-of-band power may introduce nonuniform channel gains for the transmitted symbols, thus impairing the overall error performance.