Two-Dimensional Convolutional Neural Network-Based Signal Detection for OTFS Systems

Orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation is a newly proposed modulation technique for providing a solution to high mobility doubly dispersive channel problems. In several recent research works, it is shown that OTFS has better performance over the existing conventional multicarrier modulations. OTFS modulate information symbols in a two-dimensional (2D) delay-Doppler domain rather than in time frequency domain, which can exploit the full channel diversity over time and frequency. This unique ability of OTFS can provide to design an advanced signal detection method. In this letter, we present a deep learning-based signal detection for OTFS systems. Since the input-output relation of OTFS is in 2D delay-Doppler domain, we propose a two-dimensional convolutional neural network (2D-CNN) based detector. We also employ data augmentation technique based on the widely used message-passing (MP) algorithm to improve learning ability of the proposed method. Simulation results show that the proposed method has an improved performance over the MP detector and achieves nearly the same performance as an optimal maximum a posteriori (MAP) detector with a very low time complexity.