A novel Uniform Discrete Multitone (DMT) transceiver is proposed, utilizing a wavelet packet based filter bank transmultiplexer in conjunction with a DMT transceiver. The proposed transceiver decomposes the channel spectrum into subbands of equal bandwidth. The objective is to minimize the bit error rate (BER), which is increased by channel-noise amplification. This noise amplification is due to the Zero-Forcing equalization (ZFE) technique. Quantization of the channel-noise amplification is presented, based on post-equalization signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and probability of error in all subbands of the Uniform DMT system. A modified power loading algorithm is applied to allocate variable power according to subband gains. A BER performance comparison of the Uniform DMT with variable and uniform power-loading and with a conventional DMT system in a Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) channel is presented.

A Non-Uniform Discrete Multitone (DMT) transceiver employing an octave spaced quadrature mirror filter (QMF) bank, can be used to overcome the problem of channel noise enhancement in the zero-forcing (ZF) equalization technique. In this letter, performance of the Non-Uniform DMT system is analyzed. A study of the crosstalk between sub-channels due to non-ideal filter banks is also presented. Crosstalk analysis is based upon the bit error rate (BER) performance versus the QMF order in a standadard ADSL channel. Performance comparison of the Non-Uniform DMT transceiver and a conventional DMT system is given, and it is shown that the Non-Uniform DMT transceiver displays slight improvement over the conventional DMT system for the filters of higher order.