Developments in the use of wavelets in communication systems

Research into the use of wavelets in communication systems has become an 'established' field within the last five years. Decent progress has been made in a short period of time, including finding wavelet applications, whose performance match current systems, in nearly every part of the typical communication system. This paper provides an overview of these developments by presenting wavelet implementations of various segments of a general communication system and of proposed wavelet based multiple access communication systems. Although the field is very new, promising developments have been made and the potential for future advances seems quite good.