Combined OFDM and wavelet multi-carrier transceiver

A multi-carrier transmitter for performing data transmission, said multi-carrier transmitter comprising:

• a first inverse fast Fourier transformer for performing an Inverse Fast Fourier Transform (IFFT) on a parallel input data signal;
• an imaginary component filter for filtering out the imaginary component of an output signal of the first inverse fast Fourier transformer;
• a real component filter for filtering out the real component of the output signal of the first inverse fast Fourier transformer;
• a first prototype filter comprising a polyphase filter having real coefficients, said first prototype filter accepting output data from said imaginary component filter;
• a second prototype filter comprising a polyphase filter having real coefficients which are selected by taking the real coefficients of the first prototype filter and inverting the sign of each odd-numbered real coefficient, said second prototype filter accepting output data from said real component filter;
• a modulator for performing Single Side Band (SSB) modulation by using the output from said first prototype filter as an in-phase signal of complex information and the output from the second prototype filter as an orthogonal signal of complex information;
• a first parallel-to-serial converter for converting the output of the first prototype filter from a parallel to a serial in-phase Inverse Wavelet Transform (IWT) signal;
• a second parallel-to-serial converter for converting the output of the second prototype filter from a parallel to a serial quadrature-phase Inverse Wavelet Transform (IWT) signal;
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• a third parallel-to-serial converter for converting the output of the first inverse fast Fourier transformer from a parallel to a serial data signal for Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM).