Design of Modulated Filter Banks and Transmultiplexers With Unified Initial Solutions and Very Few Unknown Parameters

This brief proposes a method for designing modulated filter banks (FBs) with a large number of channels. The impulse response of the long prototype filter is parameterized in terms of a few short impulse responses, thus significantly reducing the number of unknown parameters. The proposed method starts by first obtaining an FB with a few channels. The solution of this FB is then partly reused as an initial (very close to final) solution in the design of FBs with a large number of channels. The number of unknown parameters hence drastically reduces. For example, we can first design a cosine modulated FB (CMFB) with three channels whose prototype filter has a stopband attenuation of about 40 dB. We can then reuse the solution of this CMFB in the design of a CMFB with 16 384 channels whose prototype filter has a similar stopband attenuation. With our proposed method, we need to reoptimize only 14 parameters to design the CMFB with 16 384 channels.