Mu ltirate Signal Processing Concepts in Digital Commu nications Bojan Vrcelj In Partial Fu lfillment of the Requ irements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy California Institu te of Technology Pasadena, California 2004 (Su bmitted Ju ne 2, 2003) Abstract Multirate systems are building blocks commonly used in digital signal processing (DSP)
Their function is to alter the rate of the discrete-time signals, which is achieved by adding or deleting a portion of the signal samples
Multirate systems play a central role in many areas of signal processing, such as filter bank theory and multiresolution theory
They are essential in various standard signal processing techniques such as signal analysis, denoising, compression and so forth
During the last decade, however, they have increasingl