Reliability performance analysis for OTFS modulation based integrated sensing and communication

In this paper, we develop an orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation based integrated (radar) sensing and communication (ISAC) technique, namely OTFS-ISAC, for the high mobility multiuser system. In particular, at the transmitter, it can alternate the modes between sensing and communication using time division multiplexing so that it takes advantage of radar assistance to design the OTFS frame structure for reducing the overhead of guard symbols. At the receiver, based on the embedded pilot-aided channel estimation, it employs zero-forcing (ZF) equalization. For performance analysis, we derive the error probability of channel estimation based on radar sensing, and find the outage probability of downlink communication. Then, we introduce an adaptive power allocation scheme at the transmitter to optimize the outage probability of the communication link. Our simulations show that, by properly selecting N, M and the pilot symbol strength, the proposed OTFS-ISAC scheme can reduce the overhead of guard symbols while achieving promising reliability performance of the downlink transmission with relative low channel estimation error.