TECHNIQUES FOR COMMUNICATING INFORMATION USING PRIME-FREQUENCY WAVEFORM MAPPING

Systems and methods for efficiently conveying one or more broadband communication channels over a transmission medium. Communication is effected by transforming an incoming digital bit stream into a prime frequency information stream that includes a plurality of prime frequency components. This transformation can be accomplished through the use of a plurality of mathematical basis functions. The prime frequency information stream is then transmitted over the transmission medium. More particularly, digital bit streams carried on one or more incoming channels are in the form of binary "on" and "off" bits. These digital bits are converted into a plurality of prime frequency components which together comprise a prime frequency information stream. The conversion process maps each of respective incoming digital bits to a corresponding one of a group of orthogonal basis functions.