A necessary and sufficient condition for sampling in the general framework of shift invariant spaces is derived. Then this result is applied, respectively, to the regular sampling and the perturbation of regular sampling in shift invariant spaces. A simple necessary and sufficient condition for regular sampling in shift invariant spaces is attained. Furthermore, an improved estimate for the perturbation is derived for the perturbation of regular sampling in shift invariant spaces. The derived estimate is easy to calculate, and shown to be optimal in some shift invariant spaces. The algorithm to calculate the reconstruction frame is also presented.

From the Paley-Wiener 1/4-theorem, the finite energy signal f(t) can be reconstructed from its irregularly sampled values f(k+/spl delta//sub /spl kappa//) if f(t) is band-limited and sup/sub /spl kappa//|/spl delta//sub /spl kappa//|<1/4. We consider the signals in wavelet subspaces and wish to recover the signals from its irregular samples by using scaling functions. Then the method of estimating the upper bound of sup/sub /spl kappa//|/spl delta//sub /spl kappa//| such that the irregularly sampled signals can be recovered is very important. Following the work done by Liu and Walter (see J. Fourier Anal. Appl., vol.2, no.2, p.181-9, 1995), we present an algorithm which can estimate a proper upper bound of sup/sub /spl kappa//|/spl delta//sub /spl kappa//|. Compared to Paley-Wiener 1/4-theorem, this theorem can relax the upper bound for sampling in some wavelet subspaces.