Abstract
In this paper,efficient signal detectors are designed for Orthogonal Time Frequency Space(OTFS)modulation with Index Modulation(IM)systems.Firstly,the Minimum Mean Squared Error(MMSE)based linear equalizer and its corresponding soft-aided decision are studied for OTFS-IM.To further improve the performance,a Vector-by-Vector-aided Message Passing(W-MP)detector and its associated soft-decision are proposed,where each IM symbol is considered an entire vector utilized for message calculation and passing.Simulation results are shown that the OTFS-IM system relying on the proposed detectors is capable of providing considerable Bit Error Rate(BER)performance gains over the OTFS and Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex(OFDM)with IM systems.