Table 4 History of OFDM

1966

Proposal of the first OFDM. This was for fading communication channels

[52,53,54]

1967

Multicarrier systems

[53,54,55]

1970

OFDM is patented

[53, 54, 56]

1971

First application of DFT in OFDM

[53, 54, 57]

1980

OFDM is applied in telephone networks

[53, 54, 58]

1985

OFDM studies in mobile communication

[53, 54, 59]

1987

Used in digital broadcasting

[53, 54, 60]

1991 & 1994

Report and standard for ADSL and HDSL

[53, 54, 61,62,63]

1995

First standard for OFDM-based digital broadcasting system

[53, 54, 64]

1996

WLAN standard

[53, 54, 65]

1997

DVB-T standard

[53, 54]

1998

VDSL and BRAN standard

[53, 54]

1999 & 2000

IEEE 802.11a & 802.11g WLAN standard

[53, 54]

2003

Wavelet-OFDM for high-speed PLC

[53, 54]

2004

IEEE 802.16 WMAN, 802.11n next generation WLAN and 802.15.3a MB-OFDM

[53, 54]

2010

Performance comparison between wavelet-OFDM & filtered-OFDM

[53, 54]