Implementation and simulation of a fractal modulation communication system

Abstract
Recent work has suggested the possibility of using homogenous signals, which can be conveniently represented in terms of orthonormal wavelet basis sets, as the modulating wave- forms in communications systems. In order to research the per- formance of this "fractal modulation", we have developed a simulator and a high-level implementation of a complete trans- ceiver, comprising: transmitter, channel, receiver, and data gen- eration and verification components. Simulation results of this implementation matches the theoretical performance for fractal modulation over a channel with additive white Gaussian noise. 1. Background and Motivation Womell and Oppenheim (1)(2) first proposed fractal modulation as an interesting potential application of dy-homoge- neous signals. Aside from a change in amplitude, this class of signals remains invariant under scaling of the time axis. Dy- homogeneous signals satisfy the dyadic self-similarity property x(t) = 2kHx(2kt), for all integers k and a constant H, termed the

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