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Why OTFS Outperforms OFDM in High-Mobility Scenarios

Why OTFS Outperforms OFDM in High-Mobility Scenarios

Update: 2025-12-05
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Explores how OTFS uses D-D domain predictability to interpolate, extrapolate, and track wireless channels, reducing pilot overhead in high-mobility scenarios.


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The article explains how OTFS leverages the slow-varying nature of the delay-Doppler domain to interpolate and extrapolate channel states, enabling accurate tracking, lower pilot overhead, and reduced processing delay even in high-mobility, doubly-dispersive environments.

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Why OTFS Outperforms OFDM in High-Mobility Scenarios

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