Recently, the graph Fourier transform for a signal on a directed graph \(\mathcal {G}\) has been defined using the singular value decomposition of the Laplacian matrix of \(\mathcal {G}\) . Using this definition, in this paper, we define the operation of convolution and introduce translation, modulation and dilation operators. After studying certain important properties of translation, we obtain a necessary and sufficient condition for the Gabor system to form a frame. We also prove that, under certain sufficient conditions, the spectral graph wavelet system forms a frame. We illustrate some of our results with numerical examples using Matlab.