BER For BPSK in Rayleigh Channel

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BER for BPSK in Rayleigh channel
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by Krishna Sankar on August 10, 2008
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Long back in time we discussed the BER (bit error rate) for BPSK modulation in a simple AWGN channel (time stamps states August 2007). Almost an year back! It high time we discuss the In a brief discussion on Rayleigh channel, wherein we stated that a circularly symmetric complex Gaussian random variable is of the form, , where real and imaginary parts are zero mean independent and identically distributed (iid) Gaussian random variables with mean 0 and variance The magnitude which has a probability density, .
is called a Rayleigh random variable. This model, called Rayleigh fading channel model, is reasonable for an environment where there are large number of reflectors.
System model
The received signal in Rayleigh fading channel is of the form, , where is the received symbol, is complex scaling factor corresponding to Rayleigh multipath channel is the transmitted symbol (taking values +1s and -1s) and is the Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) Assumptions
1. The channel is flat fading In simple terms, it means that the multipath channel has only one tap. So, the convolution operation reduces to a simple multiplication. For a more rigorous discussio to review Chapter 15.3 Signal Time-Spreading from [DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS: SKLAR] 2. The channel is randomly varying in time meaning each transmitted symbol gets multiplied by a randomly varying complex number variance 1/2. 3. The noise has the Gaussian probability density function with with 4. The channel and . by the apriori known i.e. . Since
is modeling a Rayleigh channel, the real and ima
is known at the receiver. Equalization is performed at the receiver by dividing the received symbol
where is the additive noise scaled by the channel coefficient.
Bit Error Rate

The equations listed below refers Chapter 14.3 in [DIGITAL COMMUNICATION: PROAKIS]
If you recall, in the post on BER computation in AWGN, the probability of error for transmission of either +1 or -1 is computed by integrating the tail of the Gaussian probability density functio error rate is,
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. However in the presence of channel , the effective bit energy to noise ratio is , where . , one must evaluate the conditional probability density function over the probability density function of . . So the bit error probability for a given value of is,
To find the error probability over all random values of Probability density function of
From our discussion on chi-square random variable, we know that if probability density function of is, . Error probability So the error probability is, .
is a Rayleigh distributed random variable, then
is chi-square distributed with two degrees of freedom. since
Somehow, this equation reduces to . Note: 1. I have not yet figured out the math to reduce the above integral to the answer. If some one knows, kindly drop in a comment. 2. Another way for finding the bit error rate might be to find the pdf of . However, I do not know how to find pdf following the division of two random variables.
Simulation Model
It will be useful to provide a simple Matlab/Octave example simulating a BPSK transmission and reception in Rayleigh channel. The script performs the following (a) Generate random binary sequence of +1s and -1s. (b) Multiply the symbols with the channel and then add white Gaussian noise. (c) At the receiver, equalize (divide) the received symbols with the known channel (d) Perform hard decision decoding and count the bit errors (e) Repeat for multiple values of and plot the simulation and theoretical results.
Click here to download Matlab/Octave script for BER computation of BPSK in Rayleigh fading channel
Figure: BER plot of BPSK in Rayleigh fading channel

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When compared to the AWGN case, around 25dB degradation due to the multipath channel (at the point). This is both good and bad: bad because we need to spend so much energy warming), and good because we signal processing engineers are trying to figure out ways for improving the performance.
Reference
[DIGITAL COMMUNICATION: PROAKIS] Digital Communications by John Proakis
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Simran April 30, 2013 at 10:34 pm hello sir, In ur code, you have written EsN0dB = EbN0dB + 10*log10(nDSC/nFFT) + 10*log10(64/80); Can you pls explain how the third term 10*log10(64/80) comes?? Reply
Krishna Sankar May 4, 2013 at 5:54 am
@Simran: The 64/80 is to handle the cyclic prefix in the OFDM symbol. In this case we are assuming that the ofdm symbol is of duration 3.2us and has an extra 0.8us of cyclic pref So the ratio is 3.2us/4us which with 20Msps sampling translates to 64/80. Reply
Bai March 9, 2013 at 7:06 pm Hi, why is the rayleigh channel same as the noise channel? i thought the rayleigh channel should be simulated using the rayleigh random variable posted in the other article ? Reply
Krishna Sankar March 13, 2013 at 5:43 am @Bai: Rayleigh channel is formed using complex gaussian random variable. http://www.dsplog.com/2008/07/14/rayleigh-multipath-channel/ Reply
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hilman February 19, 2013 at 8:12 pm Hi Krishna, You can find the proof of bit error rate formula in David Tses book problem 3.1 http://snag.gy/2yRO0.jpg Reply
Krishna Sankar February 21, 2013 at 6:15 am @hmilan: thanks Reply
xiaofei October 17, 2012 at 12:31 pm relay network with feedback delay over rayleigh fading channel Reply
Fan Ding October 11, 2012 at 7:01 am Hi,Khishma you said the PDF of r was :p(r) = 1/(Eb/No)*exp(-r/(Eb/No)) , should it be :p(r) = 1/(r)*exp(-r/r) ? where , r = E(h^2)*Eb/No ; . . Reply
Krishna Sankar October 17, 2012 at 6:15 am @Fan: When trying to look back at the derivation of the BER @ http://www.dsplog.com/2009/01/22/derivation-ber-rayleigh-channel/ could see the following comment The resulting BER in a communications system in the presence of a channel h, for any random values of |h|^2, must be calculated evaluating the probability density function of gamma. Am unable to full recall the details, will ponder on this a bit, and update. Reply
Abhijith October 18, 2012 at 2:39 pm Hi Krishna, I derived PDF of SNR in Rayleigh fading channel. How can I share here? It is set of mathematics and if I paste it is not appearing neat. I wish to present equations as you presented in your write up. It is just 8 lines of equations. Please give hints to write equations as you have written. Thank you. Reply
Krishna Sankar October 19, 2012 at 5:34 am @Abhijith: You can mail me the pdf/doc and I can share it. OR upload to an online site like dropbox and paste the public url Reply
Fan Ding October 11, 2012 at 6:27 am Your posts help me a lot,thks.
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And I saw that someone had asked you some questions in Chinese. I am curious that you could read in Chinese.Is that really ? haha Reply
Krishna Sankar October 15, 2012 at 6:25 am @Fan: I know as much Chinese as I know Spanish Reply Xie xie
payel saha September 21, 2012 at 9:34 pm krishna plz give the code for ber of bpsk over rician channel Reply
Krishna Sankar September 22, 2012 at 6:07 am @payel saha: I have not tried modeling rician channel Reply
Skm September 16, 2012 at 11:12 am Hi sir, have recently gone through the matlab code for BER computation of BPSK in Rayleigh fading channel. There, after equalization , we perform hard decision decoding by % receiver hard decision decoding ipHat = real(yHat)>0; which effectively converts all incoming complex signals into 1 having real part greater than zero. That means at this stage we are not utilizing the imaginary part. So my question is, why should we add complex noise OR complex h ? as finally we are not utilizing imaginary part of complex signal atall ? Reply
Krishna Sankar September 18, 2012 at 5:40 am
@Skm: In the BPSK case, as you rightly said we are not using the information on the imaginary dimension and that component is ignored. I added the imaginary part in the simulatio Reply
Charly Tchouadou-Ndalleu January 21, 2013 at 4:17 am n = 1/sqrt(2)*[randn(1,N) + j*randn(1,N)]; % white gaussian noise, 0dB variance h = 1/sqrt(2)*[randn(1,N) + j*randn(1,N)]; % Rayleigh channel y = h.*Signal + 10.^(-SNR_db(i)/20)*n; hello Sir! what does those above equations mean? i will very happy if you could explain them as i am to write a code which calculate the BER of OFDM using BPSK. Thanks Reply
Krishna Sankar January 23, 2013 at 5:27 am
@Charly Tchouadou-Ndalleu: randn generates zero mean unity variance Gaussian distributed random variables. To add on the real and imaginary dimensions, we use variance at unity. The term n is an additive noise (modeling the thermal noise) and h is a multiplicative noise (modeling the phase and amplitude changes introduced by c Reply
Abhijith August 6, 2012 at 7:20 pm
@Krishna: Thank you very much for your informative articles. I have few questions slightly related to this article. I need your opinion on how you would have approached this scenario. This scenario is hypothetical. Specification: Assume I have to design a communication system for a specific area and specific purpose. My customer specified me minimum BER (QoS) and transmit power. I have liberty to choose re Approach:
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Now I have to choose modulation technique, error correction algorithm. This depends on, what channel and bandwidth is. As it is specific place, I dont know how channel looks like . I would have approached this way, Step 1: Measure and model channel: Assume I am able to measure channel. Find PDF of the channel somehow. Using this PDF, I can find outage probability or Bit error rate. Step 2: To meet this BER, choose modulation technique and error correction algorithm. Step3: Decide how much Sync you need, based on Channel. Step 4: Start design and test back. My question is Q1: How to measure real time channel if I dont have built communication system? Q2. Is my approach is right? Q3. If I am right, have I overlooked something. Thank you very much. I am waiting for your inputs. With regards, Abhijith Gopalakrishna. Reply
Krishna Sankar August 9, 2012 at 6:12 am
@Abhijith: Nice approach. One would also need to look at the range requirement of the communication link. To start off, assuming a free-space path loss model, transmit power and receiver n Now depending on whether the system is going to be indoor or outdoor, the free-space path loss model needs to be tweaked. Doing a channel measurement in the target deployme expensive and time consuming. Alternately, one can look at typical channel models available in the literature and pick one which can closely match your desired use case. Hope this Reply
DHARMESH July 24, 2012 at 9:34 am
hello krishna, I want to design a transceiver for wireless sensor networks for the application of home automation or for the indoor environment. So, I want to know about the energy efficient modulation characteristics i have to consider for choosing these modulation schmes, so under these conditions which schemes is more suitable for my application.. Reply
Krishna Sankar July 26, 2012 at 5:03 am
@DHARMESH: The key aspects to look out are data rate requirement and the range (since it is indoor, am assuming that it is of the order of 50meters). Typically, simpler the mo circuits can be cheaper and power efficient. The Zigbee standard seems to enable a cheap and power efficient transceivers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZigBee Reply
Rupom July 3, 2012 at 11:04 pm How can I do this using Gamma-Gamma Channel. Please help me out. Reply
Krishna Sankar July 5, 2012 at 5:09 am @Rupom: what is gamma-gamma channel any pointers? Reply
Aiyu May 22, 2012 at 10:14 am Hi Krishna, thanks for the blog and the MATLAB demo.. I have some questions about the commands 1. This line below, h is normalized by sqrt(2) to make the average power gain=1, am I right? h = 1/sqrt(2)*[randn(1,N) + j*randn(1,N)]; % Rayleigh channel
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2. In the line below Why is the SNR divided by 20, not 10? y = h.*qamSig + 10^(-Eb_N0_dB(ii)/20)*n; 3. what about the case of M-QAM? Lets say its then Es_No_dB instead of Eb_N0_dB, do I need to change anything else for y in the equation above??? thank you Reply
Krishna Sankar June 11, 2012 at 5:33 am @Aiyu: replies 1. yes 2. the scaling is done on a voltage signal. hence using 1/20 3. Es/N0 should be straight forward. For Eb/N0 you might need to scale by M. Es/N0 = k*Eb/N0, where k= log2(M) Please see http://www.dsplog.com/2008/06/05/16qam-bit-error-gray-mapping/ Reply
filip March 29, 2012 at 7:04 pm Hey!
Based on what can you assume that channel is known in the receiver? When does the rx obtain this information? I mean channel changes a lot in a very short period, so when is the CSI su What I noticed is that the curve obtained here matches the one obtained by the command berfading, so my q is basically about justifying how and why Rx knows CSI. Thanks Reply
Krishna Sankar March 30, 2012 at 5:38 am
@filip: In most cases, there will be training sequence in the transmission which will help the receiver estimate the channel. This will be a noisy estimate of the channel (which results in Reply
sayyed armaghan March 10, 2012 at 5:43 pm
hello thank u alot for your notes it was really usefull for me! I am student of ms in system communications engineering would you mind introducing me some fresh, exciting and excellent topic in wireless communication (esp mimo and stc) for my cem thank u again and excuse me for my bad english Reply
Krishna Sankar March 12, 2012 at 4:43 am @sayyed: Please have a look at http://www.complextoreal.com/tutorial.htm Very nice list of tutorials Reply
pavan March 10, 2012 at 2:08 pm hai, can you please provide me a source for understanding jakes model Reply
Krishna Sankar March 12, 2012 at 4:43 am @pavan: will add to the TO-DO list Reply
Ritesh March 2, 2012 at 6:46 pm

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Hi Krishna DO you know the codes for the plot of BER for a BPSK modulation in a RICIAN channel? Plz reply asap thanks Reply
Krishna Sankar March 5, 2012 at 5:37 am @Ritesh: Have not tried to simulate Rician channel Reply
Pranjal Gogoi February 3, 2012 at 8:36 pm
Mr. Sankar probably you will be the right person to solve a problem i have encountered in my MTech. project. Let us consider a Rayleigh frequency selective fading channel,while using B loop. In this case how i will calculalte the BER performance. Will the DPLL degrade or enhance the perfomance of the BER Reply
Krishna Sankar February 6, 2012 at 5:11 am @Pranjal: Why do you want the DPLL in place? Am sure its not because of the channel, rather it might be necessitated by any phase errors. Reply
ammar January 23, 2012 at 6:50 pm Hi Krishna you are a very helpful man .. i just want to ask you if you deal with matlab function that creat rayleigh channel >> name (rayleighchan) its a good function .. and have a many optional parameter thank you >> i will check your blog daily Reply
Krishna Sankar January 26, 2012 at 6:19 am @ammar: Thanks. I do not have the function rayleighchan() handy Reply
Nam Nguyen January 5, 2012 at 6:55 am Hello Mr. Krishna, Why the theory and the simulation of Rayleigh channel in ber-bpsk-rayleigh is same but in ber-16qam-rayleigh is so different? Reply
Krishna Sankar January 6, 2012 at 6:12 am @Nam: Well, the 16QAM is more error prone when compared to BPSK. Reply
Colin O'Flynn December 14, 2011 at 5:16 am Perhaps you found this out a while back, as this is an older post, but a description of the evaluation of that integral is found in section 5.1 (pg 99-101) of the book Digital Communication Reply
Krishna Sankar January 4, 2012 at 5:47 am

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@Colin: Thanks. Yes, indeed found the derivation. I do not have the book handy, but will try to get it Reply
seshu May 18, 2011 at 3:50 pm Hi sir , I saw ur Ber_bpsk_reyleigh program i gone through that link but dont know how to send the data in the qpsk can u please help me and tell some hints about the rician channel.please sir Reply
Krishna Sankar May 23, 2011 at 2:39 am @seshu: My replies: 1/ For QPSK, send data on I channel as well as Q channel 2/ I have not discussed Rician channel model Reply
shu May 18, 2011 at 12:14 am hi krishna sir
I saw ur example of ber -bpsk-rayleigh channel but i need the the qpsk for the rician channel I dont know coding sir so please help me sir give some hints where to change thats enough for Reply
Krishna Sankar May 23, 2011 at 2:46 am @shu: My replies: 1/ For QPSK, send data on I channel as well as Q channel 2/ I have not discussed Rician channel model Reply
Hasan Thiabat December 2, 2010 at 3:32 pm thank you Mr krishna Reply
nico October 28, 2010 at 1:05 pm Hello Mr. Krishna, Im trying to simulate frequency non-selective rayleigh fading channel like you did, but including the path loss (PL in dB) between two nodes. So instead of having complex number h (channel) with the real and imaginary parts are Gaussian distributed random variable having mean 0 and variance 1/2, the variance became var = 1/(2*10^(PL/20)) Is this correct? Thank you. Reply
Krishna Sankar November 19, 2010 at 5:53 am @nico: The variance should use factor of 1/10. var = 1/(2*10^(PL/10)). Agree? Reply
Hassan Moradi August 2, 2010 at 11:57 am in the expression for y, I think you should use y=|h|x+n instead of using y=hx+n. Right? Reply
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Krishna Sankar August 3, 2010 at 6:02 am @Hassan Moradi: No. The channel can distort the phase and amplitude of the transmit signal Reply
Tom June 14, 2010 at 7:23 am what is meant by a power limited in communication system. Reply
Krishna Sankar June 21, 2010 at 5:52 am @Tom: A system where we cannot transmit very high power (due to battery/size limitations etc) Reply
Tuyen Tran June 12, 2010 at 6:52 pm I simulate 16QAM modulation (no coding) over Rayleigh channel, I want to change profile of channel, so I write: chan = stdchan(1/Rb,150,cost207RAx4); chan.PathDelays = [0, 0.2*1e-6, 0.4*1e-6, 0.5*1e-6]; chan.AvgPathGaindB = [0, -2, -10, -16]; chan.NormalizePathGains = 1; chan.ResetBeforeFiltering = 0; I need your help, could you show me I am wrong or right? Reply
Krishna Sankar June 14, 2010 at 6:10 am
@Tuyen Tran: I do not have matlab, hence unable to comment on the stdchan() function. But in general, your code seems to be correct. Make sure that you convolve your time dom Reply
Tuyen Tran June 19, 2010 at 6:40 pm Thank you for your respone! Reply
Rebecca April 13, 2010 at 6:00 pm Hi Krishna, Do u have any topic related to BER for BPSK in Rician channel? Id like to know how to write (matlab code) for Rician Tks. Reply
Krishna Sankar April 14, 2010 at 4:41 am @Rebecca: Sorry, I have not discussed Rician channel Reply
dolly April 13, 2010 at 2:53 pm hii sir how to get rayleigh channel using BPSK modulation & adding AWGN noise by usingg taps.actually what is tap? & why it should be used in rayleigh channel? Reply
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Krishna Sankar April 14, 2010 at 4:40 am
@dolly: A signal transmitted over air can reach the receiver through different paths. The gain and phase information corresponding to each path is notionally stored as tap. In this po I have discussed briefly on a) Rayleigh channel @ http://www.dsplog.com/2008/07/14/rayleigh-multipath-channel/ b) 3 Tap fixed ISI channel with ZF equalization http://www.dsplog.com/2009/11/29/ber-bpsk-isi-channel-zero-forcing-equalization/ Reply
bijoy babu March 14, 2010 at 5:54 am hey i just had a look on the matlab code that you posted.. http://www.dsplog.com/db-install/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/script_ber_bpsk_rayleigh_channel.m % Transmitter ip = rand(1,N)>0.5; % generating 0,1 with equal probability s = 2*ip-1; % BPSK modulation 0 -> -1; 1 -> 0 correct me if i am wrong..cos i am new to matlab and to this topic i have very less knowledge.. i checked the output for n=10 ip =1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 s =1 -1 -1 1 -1 1 1 1 -1 -1 please help me out.. cheers bijoy Reply
Krishna Sankar March 28, 2010 at 3:40 pm @bijoy babu: Yes Reply
FERNANDO March 9, 2010 at 10:58 pm Hi friend, please, I do not understand why the BER of BPSK in Rayleigh channel is equal to the BPSK OFDM in Rayleigh channel. Thank you very much. Reply
@FERNANDO: In this simulation model, even though we have a 10-tap multipath channel, as the channel duration is less than the cyclic prefix (of 16 samples), we do not have inte as in the BER of BPSK in Rayleigh channel case. Hence the BER is identical. Reply
Saurabh February 28, 2010 at 3:42 am hi, I have similar kind of project to do but in my project prof is asking to plot BER of BPSK i.e. BER vs . Does it look different from when we plot it against Eb/No? Reply
Krishna Sankar March 30, 2010 at 4:57 am @Saurabh: What is y? Reply
kadir February 18, 2010 at 3:54 pm
Can you distinguish clearly correlated and uncorrelated Raykeigh Channel and how are they formed from awgn? How to implement BER simulation for correlated and uncorrelated Rayleig Reply
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@kadir: AWGN is an additive noise whereas as the channel is a multiplicative noise. For uncorrelated channel, the channel varies for each symbol. For correlated channel, the chann Reply
samalqudah February 14, 2010 at 10:34 pm
hello mr. krishna, i would ask you a question regarding the rayleigh channel. how can i generate Rayleigh channel impulse response as ready numbers to be used in a program without using the rand()+j*rand large number of symbols to get the plot of the prob. of error. I want to have a table of values for channel impulse response to be used for simulating a MIMO system. some papers do list d transmit and receive antenna to get a MIMO channel matrix, how did they get such values? this is exactly my question Reply
Sanket February 9, 2010 at 8:53 pm Hi Krishna, I have a little query..In your MATLAB program of calculating BER for BPSK in raleigh fading Channel,while calculating you have used yhat=y./h; Is it OK to divide y by h as above, as it may lead to severe noise amplification as h is a random variable and may take any value? Thanks. Reply
Krishna Sankar April 4, 2010 at 4:09 am @Sanket: You are right, it can indeed result in noise amplification Reply
sinto February 4, 2010 at 8:11 pm Hi Sir,, in book Fundamental of Wireless Communication (by Tse and Viswanath) Rician fading modeled as: h = sqrt(K/(K+1))*line_of_sight_signal + sqrt(1/(K+1))*reflected_and_scattered_signal K = K-factor From the above equation, i have modified your code (rayleigh channel) in order to simulate ricean channel. % generating 0,1 with equal probability ip = rand(1,N)>0.5; % BPSK modulation 0 -> -1; 1 -> 0 s = 2*ip-1; % Rician channel h = 1/sqrt(2)*(sqrt(K/(K+1))*s + sqrt(1/(K+1))*(randn(1,N) + j*randn(1,N))) is this code correct? please help me.. thanks Reply
Krishna Sankar April 4, 2010 at 4:21 am @sinto: Well, from a quick look it does not seem to be right. Reply
samta January 19, 2010 at 5:18 pm hi kishna..

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I am working in turbo decoding.my recieved signal is effected by AWGN noise and reyleigh fading. which is in thae same formate which u have taken like hS+W. My problem is that i want the exact expession of probability of error for QPSK. Whatever u have derieved is for BPSK case.Can u derive it or please give me some hint. Anyways as u asked the full mathematical concept of ur expression of BER for BPSK,u can go through my thesis supervisors book,named by DIGITAL COMMUNICATION AND SIG hope this will help u and waiting for ur responce. Reply
zaffar January 16, 2010 at 6:31 pm
Hi Krishna, I hope you are doing well. I am simulating 16 QAM in a Rayleigh channel and am trying to compute the SER(& BER). I need to verify my results using the theoretical formula. Can you kin channel? I shall be grateful Thanking in advance, Zaffar Reply
samalqudah January 11, 2010 at 6:10 pm
hello mr. krishna, i would ask you a question regarding the rayleigh channel. how can i generate Rayleigh channel impulse response as ready numbers to be used in a program without using the rand()+j*rand large number of symbols to get the plot of the prob. of error. I want to have a table of values for channel impulse response to be used for simulating a MIMO system. some papers do list d transmit and receive antenna to get a MIMO channel matrix, how did they get such values? this is exactly my question. Reply
mat_ad December 29, 2009 at 1:16 am Hi How r u ? hope fine. I m very satisfy to this site, because it is very helpful to me to make my project. if u have QPSK matlab code for BER in Rayleigh channel, pls send me. thanks. Reply
prabag December 7, 2009 at 11:52 am
Hi I would like to know that how IFFT makes signls to be orthogonally modulated in OFDM..also when we give 1s and 0s as input to IFFT block the o/p is complex valueand some of the suppose if this is transmitted thro severely faded channel still there is a possibility that these signal might get into deep fade..so at the receiver there might be a problem in decoding the data Reply
Krishna Sankar December 8, 2009 at 5:27 am
@prabag: When we are doing IFFT, we are loading information on subcarriers exp(jwt), exp(j2wt) and so on you may find a detailed discussion at http://www.dsplog.com/2008 At the receiver, we are not going to look at the time domain samples and attempt demodulation. We take the fft and look at the fft output prior to attempting demodulation http://www.dsplog.com/2008/08/26/ofdm-rayleigh-channel-ber-bpsk/ Reply
student December 1, 2009 at 10:08 pm Hello
I am working on a paper in which i am trying to plot ber for bpsk using rayleigh channel. but, the thing is, i need to use estimated SNR including the pilot symbols and noise samples as par equations in the paper, but, i am experiencing constant BER. I have followed the same steps posted by you in BER for BPSK in Rayleigh channel to produce the rayleigh output and later used estimated SNR to calculate BER, so that i can vary pil you please refer my paper and guide me, whether i am in right way..?? http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=01437347&tag=1 Reply
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@student: Sorry, due to time constraints I wont be able to help with the coding part. Good luck. Reply
aissou December 1, 2009 at 4:22 pm 10^(-Eb_N0_dB(ii)/20): help me please wy you used teh signe negatif in( -Eb_N0_dB(ii)/20), and dont Eb_N0_dB(ii)/20 thanks Reply
aissou December 1, 2009 at 4:22 pm 10^(-Eb_N0_dB(ii)/20): help me please wy you used teh signe negatif in( -Eb_N0_dB(ii)/20), and dont Eb_N0_dB(ii)/20 thanks Reply
@aissou: The negative sign came as I am scaling the noise voltage. I am keeping the signal swing the same and reducing the swing of noise voltage to simulate various Eb/N0 values. Reply
Obinna O November 30, 2009 at 7:05 pm Krishna Pillai, Hellos sir, I am told to assume Rayleigh fading channel with BPSK modulation. Using MATLAB plot bit error probability (BEP) under coherent and non-coherent detection when receiver is equipped with three antennas to exploit diversity. Your figures will include plots from simulation. Use average SNR (complex) from -5 to 20 dB. Please help me resolve this, thank you so much Reply
Obinna O November 26, 2009 at 1:34 am Krishna Pillai,
Hello Sir, I was asked to assume Rayleigh fading channel with BPSK modulation. Using MAT-LAB plot bit error probability (BEP) under coherent and non-coherent de-tection. Your g simulation.Use average SNR (complex) from -5 to 20 dB. I am having difficulty writing the code for non coherent, I have been able to write the code for coherent detection. Please assist me in this. Reply
Krishna Sankar December 7, 2009 at 4:39 am @Obinna O: Hope you have finished the project by now. Reply
usha November 20, 2009 at 5:48 am Hello sir, The posts here are very useful. great job. Presently,I am working on a IEEE paper On the Impact of SNR Estimation Error on Adaptive Modulation . Here is th link http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=01437347 But, I got stuck with the silmulation of the imperfect SNR Estimation.
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I need to plot the fig.1 i.e; Estimated SNR vs pdf basing on the theoritical equations stated under imperfect SNR Estimation. can u please help me with the simulation ?? Thank You. Reply
Krishna Sankar December 6, 2009 at 4:19 pm @usha: Sorry, due to time constraints, may I decline to help with the simulation. Good luck. Reply
student November 19, 2009 at 1:24 am
hi i was trying to simulate BER for BPSK using Rayleigh fading channel. But the difference is, I need to follow the steps, 1. Generate BPSK-modulated random data for the desired signal and interfering users. 2. Generate the independent complexed Gaussian random vectors and multiply them with the corresponding covariance matrix represented by J0(x) (i.e., Jo(2*pi*d) where d is the ratio o wavelength) to get the correlated Rayleigh fading channel. 3. Generate complexed AWGN 4. Make hard-decision on the desired signal to get the BER. And the algorithm you have followed says: Simulation Model (a) Generate random binary sequence of +1s and -1s. (b) Multiply the symbols with the channel and then add white Gaussian noise. (c) At the receiver, equalize (divide) the received symbols with the known channel (d) Perform hard decision decoding and count the bit errors (e) Repeat for multiple values of and plot the simulation and theoretical results. My question is, in the 2nd step, i am multipying the symbols with covariance matrix to obtain Rayleigh fading channel, and then in step 3, i am generating AWGN. whereas, you are multiplying the symbols with the channel and then adding AWGN to it. Do both the simulations yield similar results? Can you please make me understand the difference. Reply
Krishna Sankar December 6, 2009 at 4:15 pm @Student: In my simulation model, the channel is independent flat fading Rayleigh channel which is applied to a single users transmission and then we add awgn to it. For your case, its bit more complex. We need to have a) Generate output of channel for desired user by using flat fading independent Rayleigh channel b) Generate output of channel for undesired user by using correlated flat fading Rayeligh channel c) Add (a) and (b), and then add awgn. So, your results will be poorer due to the additional interference from the undesired user. Good luck. Reply
bopuhafs November 12, 2009 at 9:06 pm 10^(-Eb_N0_dB(ii)/20) ; pourquoi utiliser le moin - Reply
Krishna Sankar December 3, 2009 at 5:19 am @bopuhafs: To make the noise power to be lower than the signal power Reply
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Hi Krishna Sankar My name is Puripong, I a student from Thailand. Im looking for the introduction to simulate BER performance in Rayleigh fading channel and this is a very nice post {BER for BPSK in Rayleigh channel}. I found 25dB degradation when compared to BPSK-AWGN Thank you very much. I have some question about h, Why does the real and imaginary parts must have variance equal to 1/2 ? Could you give me an explaination or some reference textbooks for this question ? Reply
Sara November 3, 2009 at 7:38 pm
Hi Krishna I have a problem in my m.file.I produce a symbol strean by x=randint(N,1,M) where M is the order of modulation, the fading channel by H=sqrt(0.5)*(randn(N,1)+j*randn(N,1)).In this s I think it is not possible in real systems.What should i do if I want to keep the channel fixed in every coherence time of channel?How can i write the m-file of this issue? help me please. thank u. Sara Reply
Krishna Sankar November 8, 2009 at 8:45 am
@Sara: Well, the most simplest way would be to keep the same channel for a group of symbols, then use an independent realization for the next group of symbols. If we want t mak sophisticated. I have not yet discussed that. Reply
Sara November 3, 2009 at 7:24 pm Hi Krishna I have a problem in my m.file that i sent to your email.I want you to help me about this problem. thank you. Reply
Krishna Sankar November 8, 2009 at 8:41 am @Sara: I will take a look. Sorry for the delay. Reply
amit October 28, 2009 at 9:21 am i m very satisfy to this site, bcause it is very hepful to me to make mmy project. if u have qpsk matlab code for BER then plz send me . Reply
Krishna Sankar November 8, 2009 at 7:39 am @amit: Thanks. For QPSK, plz refer http://www.dsplog.com/2007/11/06/symbol-error-rate-for-4-qam/ Reply
Kirankumar Palthi October 21, 2009 at 4:21 pm HI Krishna, I sent you an email regarding my project. Please reply to that mail. Reply
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mak_m September 28, 2009 at 3:16 am
thanks very much for replying i doo agree with ur comment however i dint get my answer yet can u plz tell me the code for channel model for bpsk tht is frequency selective channel (u have done it with flat faing) ? with the help of this i can compare the ber of bpsk with rayleigh as compared to ber of bpsk rayleigh ofdm .so i can show can i use the same 10tap model used in ur code for bpskofdm in the case of bpsk only.. or i shuld use some other code..? plz help me thanks Reply
Krishna Sankar October 1, 2009 at 5:21 am @mak_m: 1/ Yes, with OFDM, the 10 tap channel is in effect gives same performance as flat fading channel 2/ You can use 10 tap channel with BPSK modulation. However, you need to do pulse shaping etc at the transmitter. Reply
mak_m September 17, 2009 at 9:21 pm thanks , hi krishna can u plz tel mei m really confused .can u plz tell me ray leigh channel used in BER for BPSK(single tap) is different from ber for bpsk ofdm(10tap) but their but if the ber of bpsk is same as ber of bpsk in ofdm in , then y did we use ofdm ..can u plz tell me which channel model shuld i use so i can show the performance improvement due tel me which channel model shuld i use in case of bpsk without ofdmie to degrade the ber of ur simulation.. ihave gone through all the comments but didnt find the answers.. thanks in advance waiting for ur reply Reply
@mak_m: 1/ Thanks to OFDM, even though we have a 10-tap frequency selective channel, each subcarrier experienced a flat fading channel. Hence the performance of flat fading BPSK is c 2/ If we do not use OFDM, the performance for BPSK in a 10 tap channel will be much poorer due to inter symbol interference. Hope this helps. Reply
mak_m September 9, 2009 at 3:18 pm can u plz tel me how did u drive the formulafor ber of bpsk in rayleigh channelcan i get further explanation can u plz telme the source of it thanks in advance gud work keep it up Reply
Krishna Sankar September 10, 2009 at 6:56 pm @mak_m: I am referring Digital Communication: Third Edition, by John R. Barry, Edward A. Lee, David G. Messerschmitt Reply
M_abs September 7, 2009 at 6:53 pm Dear Krishna Sankar, your posts helps me a lot. I want to how can i find the BER equation for 16-QAM and QPSK over the RAYLEIGH channel ? please help me. Reply

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@M_abs: You may modify the modulated variable s to correspond to QPSK/16QAM respectively. Make sure that you have the corresponding demodulators too. You may refer http://www.dsplog.com/2007/11/06/symbol-error-rate-for-4-qam/ http://www.dsplog.com/2007/12/09/symbol-error-rate-for-16-qam/ http://www.dsplog.com/2008/06/05/16qam-bit-error-gray-mapping/ Reply
vikas September 3, 2009 at 6:31 am hi I have a doubt.within coherence time channel coffecients are constant if I am correct than why we are multiplying each data bit by rayleigh variable..?? h = 1/sqrt(2)*[randn(nTx,N) + j*randn(nTx,N)]; % Rayleigh channel sr = (1/sqrt(nTx))*kron(ones(nTx,1),s); % Channel and noise Noise addition hEff = h.*exp(-j*angle(h)); y1 = sum(h.*sr,1) + 10^(-Eb_N0_dB(ii)/20)*n; please reply Reply
@vikas: My replies: 1/ within coherence time channel coffecients are constant [krishna] yes, channel coefficients are almost the same 2/ why we are multiplying each data bit by rayleigh variable..?? [krishna] rayleigh variable corresponds to channel coefficients. these coefficients remain the same for the cohere Reply
lumingui August 11, 2009 at 12:05 pm ok. What you said is one of solution for it. After I read sklars book again for fading, I know the anwser , thanks! Reply
lumingui August 10, 2009 at 10:46 am
Hi Krishna, When compared to the AWGN case, around 25dB degradation due to the multipath channel (at the point). This is both good and bad: bad because we need to spend so much energy to and good because we signal processing engineers are trying to figure out ways for improving the performance. 1. I think because we signal processing engineers are trying to figure out ways for improving the performance can be undestandbe that if channel estimation is perfect, we can try to com closer to that of AWGN. 2. in your code for BER for BPSK modulation in a Rayleigh fading channel , there is only one rayleigh path, so the channel is flat. % Channel and noise Noise addition y = h.*s + 10^(-Eb_N0_dB(ii)/20)*n; % equalization yHat = y./h; you try to simulate as having a perfect channel estimation and then equalizes it. But the performance is still too far away from that of AWGN. What is the better channel estimation and equ Reply
Krishna Sankar August 11, 2009 at 4:55 am @lumingui: You are right in saying that, in this current simulations where we know the perfect channel and equalization, we are having optimal performance. However, think about (a) Multiple receive antennas. http://www.dsplog.com/2008/09/28/maximal-ratio-combining/ Maximal Ratio Combining and bring down the BER by quite a bit. And theoretically, if we have infinite receive antennas, I think we reach close to AWGN performance (b) Multiple transmit antennas with Beamforming http://www.dsplog.com/2009/04/13/transmit-beamforming/ (c) Multiple transmit antennas with Space Time Block Coding (STBC) http://www.dsplog.com/2008/10/16/alamouti-stbc/ Does this answer your concern? Reply
Hemanth July 29, 2009 at 5:14 pm

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Hi Krishna,
When you derived an expression for the average probability of symbol error in a rayleigh channel, you obtained a linear relationship(approximation for higher Eb/N0s) between the logBER This derivation gives the average BER for a rayleigh channel with no mention of an EQ anywhere in the derivation. But when you simulate, you are getting the theoretical result of a linear d give very poor BER since the phase of the received points is now uniformly distributed and when you use a BPSK, you would have a only a 50% chance that the transmitted point would b of using an EQ, what i dont follow is the gap between the theoretical derivation for average BER with no mention of the effects of an EQ, and the simulation which uses it. Please tell me w Reply
Krishna Sankar July 30, 2009 at 5:39 am
@Hemanth: You are not correct when you mentioned that the theoretical derivation of BER in Rayleigh channel did not include the effect of equalizer. Recall that, we started of the d |h|^2Eb/N0. Its onlu after equalization the instantaneous SNR is |h|^2Eb/N0. Note: y = hx + n After equalization, xhat = y/h = (h*/|h^2|)y = h*(hx+n)/(|h|^2) = (|h|^2x + n)/(|h|^2) Do you agree? Reply
Hemanth July 31, 2009 at 10:39 am Hi Krishna,
I agree with your explanation for where the EQ comes in. I was looking at it in a different way which lead to my confusion. It stems from the fact that the instantaneous SNR i with you on this point ) Since y=hx+n, Received signal power = E[(hx)(hx)^h](^h is hermittian), = E((hx)(x^hh^h)], =h(Px)(h^h) =Px(|h|^2) Noise power remains the same as before. So, you can see that the signal energy is scaled by a factor of |h|^2, because of which the received SNR is going to be (|h|^2)Eb/No. So whether or not you use this kind of a I think where we have used the EQ implicitly, is when we say the average BER is obtained by taking an expectation over the old expression for a BPSK ber, i.e. 0.5*erfc(s derived assuming noise adds only along a single direction, while the effect of a random channel(with uniform phase distribution) would be to throw the constellation point anyw is 0.5*erfc(sqrt(gamma)), then the channel model is x+n or utmost kx+n where k is real and n is Gaussian and using a zfe restores our situation to this model. Tell me if this Reply
Krishna Sankar August 5, 2009 at 5:45 am
@Hemanth: Some comments: It stems from the fact that the instantaneous SNR is (|h|^2)Eb/No, even when the EQ is not used [krishna] We can have different types of receivers. The most simplest type wont even consider that there was a channel and just do hard decision decoding on the rece but still thats one type of receiver. Another receiver type, which does division by the channel h, results in instantaneous SNR of (|h|^2)Eb/No. So your statement that the instantaneous SNR is independent of equalizaton is not correct.
This has been derived assuming noise adds only along a single direction [krishna] Its a kinda loose sentence, which I am finding difficult to comprehend. But, yes the noise is additive and not multiplicative. Note that additive noise can result i Reply
joel July 2, 2009 at 8:56 pm
Dear Krishna, I have a question related to Rayleigh Multipath Channel. Lets assume that there is no white noise caused by the channel. Additionaly the transmitted signal will be up-mixed and then down but without the phase imbalance. So the structure looks like this : Guard Insertion -> Up-Convertion -> Multipath Channel -> Down-Convertion -> Guard Removal -> Equalizer
The problem is that the received signal is disturbed. Since we have no AWGN, the signal is ideally equalized, right ? So, what can be resposible for the signal distortion , down-converter ? problems with the transmission/reception path I described ? Regards Joel Reply
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@joel: The multipath channel causes a phase and amplitude distortion to the channel. That has to be removed (aka equalization) prior to demodulation. I do no see issues with the ch Reply
joel July 8, 2009 at 1:47 am The thing is, that the equalizer removes the multipath distortion by dividing the output by the channel impule response. Since there is no noise, the qualization is ideal , i.e. Y = introduces additional phase rotation which spoils the equalization. I hoped that you negate or confirm my assumptions. Regards Reply
Krishna Pillai July 15, 2009 at 4:47 am
@joel: What you said is probable. How are you estimating the channel. If you are estimating the channel by defining a known sequence (in frequency domain) at the tra described above, then estimate the channel @ the receiver, then the estimated channel will include the effects of multipath + phase rotations which may have occurred. Reply
hugh June 24, 2009 at 4:35 pm
Hi Krishna, I used your script for BER with FSK modulation in AWGN channel and modified to get BER with FSK modulation in Rayleigh channel. But there is some problem inside, i dont know tha % Matlab Script for computing the BER for Binary FSK modulation in a Rayleigh fading channel clear N = 10^5 % number of bits or symbols T = 10; % symbol duration t = [0:1/T:0.99]; % sampling instants tR = kron(ones(1,N),t); % repeating the sampling instants Eb_N0_dB = [0:11]; % multiple Eb/N0 values for ii = 1:length(Eb_N0_dB) % generating the bits ip = rand(1,N)>0.5; % generating 0,1 with equal probability freqM = ip+1; % converting the bits into frequency, bit0 -> frequency of 1, bit1 -> frequency of 2 freqR = kron(freqM,ones(1,T)); % repeating x = (sqrt(2)/sqrt(T))*cos(2*pi*freqR.*tR); %generating the FSK modulated signal % noise n = 1/sqrt(2)*[randn(1,N*T) + j*randn(1,N*T)]; % white gaussian noise, 0dB variance h = 1/sqrt(2)*[randn(1,N*T) + j*randn(1,N*T)]; % Rayleigh channel % coherent receiver y = h.*x + 10^(-Eb_N0_dB(ii)/20)*n; % additive white gaussian noise equalization yHat = y./h; op1 = conv(yHat, sqrt(2/T)*cos(2*pi*1*t)); % correlating with frequency 1 op2 = conv(yHat, sqrt(2/T)*cos(2*pi*2*t)); % correlating with frequency 2 % demodulation ipHat = [real(op1(T+1:T:end)) < real(op2(T+1:T:end))]; % nErr(ii) = size(find([ip - ipHat]),2); % counting the number of errors end simBer = nErr/N; theoryBerAWGN = 0.5*erfc(sqrt(10.^(Eb_N0_dB/10))); % theoretical ber EbN0Lin = 10.^(Eb_N0_dB/10); theoryBer = 0.5.*(1-sqrt(EbN0Lin./(EbN0Lin+2))); %theoretical BER % plot close all figure semilogy(Eb_N0_dB,theoryBerAWGN,'r-','LineWidth',2); hold on semilogy(Eb_N0_dB,theoryBer,'b-'); hold on semilogy(Eb_N0_dB,simBer,'mx-'); axis([0 11 10^-4 0.5]) grid on legend('theory:AWGN','theory:fsk-coh', 'sim:fsk-coh'); xlabel('Eb/No, dB') ylabel('Bit Error Rate') title('Bit error probability curve') But why the theory and simulation curves are separated each other, they should cling tightly. Can you do me a favour to check and find a problem to get them closely? Thanks,
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bluray June 18, 2009 at 5:27 am
In the simulation model above, every fading coefficient is uncorrelated and affects only 1 bit. So, is it consider as uncorrelated fast fading? What are some of the ways to estimate the chann Reply
Krishna Pillai June 21, 2009 at 12:41 pm @bluray: Yes, this is uncorrelated fast fading Typically, there will be a preamble sequence which is known by both transmitter and receiver, using which receiver can form an estimate of the channel. Reply
Ideal May 26, 2009 at 10:20 pm Dear Krishna, can you tell me how to plot the power angular profile for an incoming signal. Reply
Krishna Pillai May 31, 2009 at 8:30 pm @Ideal: Sorry, am not familiar with modeling angular profile. Reply
fof May 19, 2009 at 12:32 am hii saw youe code for alamouti STBC..its a great one..but i need a simpler one eventhough its too long i dont know how to use functions equivelent to those you used with your code. i need a very simple code using very simole function.. so can anyone help me please?? Reply
Krishna Pillai May 20, 2009 at 5:45 am @fof: Good luck. Reply
nikitha May 23, 2009 at 9:56 am
hi krishna. First i would like to thankyou for answering the questions of all the people like me.. I have written a code for modelling OFDM using BPSK where the channel taps are given by h1=1 h2=0.5 h3=0.3 and i have used awgn channel. I am unable to figure out th is the code nsubc=4; nsym=1; N=nsubc*nsym; SNR=4; a=sign(rand(1,N)-0.5); a_vec=reshape(a,nsubc,nsym) a_fft=sqrt(nsubc)*ifft(a_vec); h=[1 0.5 0.3]; hnorm=h./norm(h); chanipac=[a_fft(nsubc-1,:); a_fft(nsubc,:); a_fft]; for j=1:nsym p=chanipac(:,j); chanresp(:,j)=conv(p,hnorm); end; n=1/sqrt(2)*(randn(nsubc+4,nsym)+i*randn(nsubc+4,nsym)); y=chanresp+10^(-SNR/20)*n; for i=1:nsubc cprem(i,:)=y(i+2,:); end;
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hfreq=fft(h,nsubc); hfreqinv=1./hfreq; hdiag=diag(hfreqinv); o_fft=(1/sqrt(nsubc))*fft(cprem); fde=hdiag*o_fft; o=fde>0; op_vect=2*o-1; op=reshape(op_vect,1,N); ber=size(find(a-op),2) berrat=ber/N Reply
Krishna Pillai May 31, 2009 at 8:08 pm
@nikitha: I did not probe deeply. However, from a quick look it seems that there are issues in subcarrier assignment. You may refer to the post on BER for BPSK in O http://www.dsplog.com/2008/08/26/ofdm-rayleigh-channel-ber-bpsk/ Hope this helps. Reply
wafaa May 5, 2009 at 1:59 pm hi all, im modeling a SUI channel,ive already found a model that gives a matrix of the channel coefficients, but i dont know how to add the channel effect to my OFDM modulated signal thanks for anyone gives me a hand Reply
Krishna Pillai May 12, 2009 at 5:05 am @wafaa: You can just convolve the ofdm time domain signal with the channel taps. Agree? You may use the code in the post http://www.dsplog.com/2008/08/26/ofdm-rayleigh-channel-ber-bpsk/ for reference. Reply
Ahmed April 18, 2009 at 4:33 pm Thank you Krishna for all your efforts. The information you have posted about matched filter are very intersting for me Reply
hayle April 8, 2009 at 8:35 am hello sir if we were to extende ofdm to ofdma how do i divide the sub carriers to say two users thanks Reply
Krishna Pillai April 11, 2009 at 6:58 am @hayle: Simplistically, I can think of two approaches - interleaved : where all even subcarriers are assigned to one user and odd subcarriers to another user - block : where -ve subcarriers are asisgned to one user and +ve subcarriers to another user. And between these two approaches, there can be lots of permutations possible. Reply
S. Alam April 6, 2009 at 3:03 am
Hello Sir, I am working on multi-relay cooperative communication system. I consider two hop communication and rayleigh fading channel with decode and forward relaying. Could you please send source to relay and from relay to destination)outage probability under different relay selection strategy where all the relay nodes are distributed according to homogeneous Poisson point pr Reply
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Krishna Pillai April 11, 2009 at 6:16 am @Alam: Sorry, I have not worked on co-operative communications. Reply
Assad Abbasi May 22, 2009 at 4:50 pm Dear S,Alam,
I am also worikng on multi-hop relay network. I am new in this area and need some help from you. if you can give meur email address please. my email is assad.abbasi@yahoo.com ill wait for ur reply,plz contzct me on my email. thanks Reply
mrKim November 13, 2012 at 8:42 am Dear S.Alam Did you find material for this problem ? I am also worikng on multi-hop relay network. I am new in this area and need some help from you. if you can give meur email address please. my email nguyenkimhieuha@gmail.com ill wait for ur reply,plz contzct me on my email. Reply
mohammed April 5, 2009 at 2:14 pm
your simulation on the top was for BPSK in multipath and has 35dB at 10-4 which is the same value also for OFDM for multipath.if we were to say OFDM is better we expect to get a va thanks Reply
Krishna Pillai April 11, 2009 at 6:13 am @mohammed: As I said in my previous comment in both the cases the signal experiences flat fading. Hence the BER performance is comparable. Reply
mohammed April 5, 2009 at 2:09 pm thanks kirshina modifying BPSK do you mean using channels other than flat fadding for bpsk (give me an example)and OFDM i think is assumed flat fading . thanks once againe Reply
Krishna Pillai April 11, 2009 at 6:12 am @mohammed : Yes, channels other than flat fading for BPSK. Reply
mohammed April 2, 2009 at 9:01 pm hi kirshina for both bpsk and ofdm using bpsk on multipath your BER curve is alomst the same,and ofdm is said to superior in multipath can you explaine this to me thanks Reply
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Krishna Pillai April 4, 2009 at 4:53 pm @mohammed: The BPSK simulation was using flat fading channel and the OFDM simulations, thanks to cylcic prefix is also having a flat fading channel. Hence both the simulations However, if you modified the BPSK simulation to have a multipath channel, the performance will be much poorer than with OFDM. Reply
R.Ramya March 27, 2009 at 10:53 pm i got the answer: for which i have posted previously: % For Slow Fading, Channel coefficients are the same over block transmission; h_10 = sqrt(1 / 2) * abs(randn + j * randn) * ones(1, N); h_20 = sqrt(1 / 2) * abs(randn + j * randn) * ones(1, N); % For Fast Fading, Channel coefficients changes from one symbol to the other h_10 = sqrt(1 / 2) * abs(randn(1, N) + j * randn(1, N)); h_20 = sqrt(1 / 2) * abs(randn(1, N) + j * randn(1, N)); But my question is: As we all know small scale fading (based on Doppler spread) is divided in to 1.Slow Fading 2.fast fading
for fast fading, there is high doppler spread , channel variations are ofcourse faster than signal variations, coherance time symbol period , channel variations are slower than signal variations How can one write code for simulating doppler spread ???? Can U help me by giving hint.. thanks a lot in advance Reply
Krishna Pillai April 4, 2009 at 8:32 am @R.Ramya: I have not tried simulating doppler, hence unable to help. Sorry. Reply
R.Ramya March 27, 2009 at 10:08 pm Hi, I want to change it from slow fading to a fast fading. % For Slow Fading, Channel coefficients are the same over block transmission; h_10 = sqrt(1 / 2) * abs(randn + j * randn) * ones(1, N); h_20 = sqrt(1 / 2) * abs(randn + j * randn) * ones(1, N); what should i do for fast fading? (For Fast Fading, Channel coefficients changes from one symbol to the other ) thanks a lot in advance. Reply
Ahmed March 25, 2009 at 1:45 pm
Greetings Krishna. Thank you for all these efforts. I want to ask you if there is a matlab code about using matched filter as an optimum binary detection. How can this simulated?Also equiv integrator? Thank you very much. Ahmed Reply
Krishna Pillai April 4, 2009 at 7:41 am @Ahmed: Thanks. In most of the simulation models, I have assumed flat fading channels and did not use filtering. However, there are two post on transmit pulse shaping filters:
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http://www.dsplog.com/2008/04/14/transmit-pulse-shape-nyquist-sinc-rectangular/ http://www.dsplog.com/2008/04/22/raised-cosine-filter-for-transmit-pulse-shaping/ You may modify one of these to adapt to BER computation using matched filtering at receiver. You may simulate the integrator as a convolution function. % example matlab code snippet to show matched filtering with a rectangular tx pulse shaping filter clear all N=7 am = 2*(rand(1,N)>0.5)-1 + j*(2*(rand(1,N)>0.5)-1); % generating random binary sequence fs = 10; % sampling frequency in Hz % recatangular filter gt1 = ones(1,fs); amUpSampled = [am;zeros(fs-1,length(am))]; amU = amUpSampled(:).; % received seqeunce rt = conv(amU,gt1); % matched filter yt = conv(rt,gt1/10); % extracting the samples at = yt(10:10:end-10) err = at-am Hope this helps. Reply
rim March 23, 2009 at 10:01 pm hello every body, I am doing search on multiuser detection and I need some help to simulate CDMA system over multipath rayleigh fading channel, Reply
Krishna Pillai March 25, 2009 at 5:47 am
@rim: We have not yet written posts on CDMA systems. However, the multiuser detection problem can in general be viewed as a MIMO V-BLAST transmission scenario, where dimensions. Some equalization structures for a 22 MIMO with V-Blast are discussed in http://www.dsplog.com/tag/mimo Hope this helps. Reply
Martin March 19, 2009 at 12:09 pm hi all i have 3 for-loops here for kk=users for jj=receiver for ii=Eb_N0_dB nErr(jj,ii) = size(find([ip- ipHat]),2); end end end figure semilogy(Eb_N0_dB,simBer(1,: ,mo-,'LineWidth,2); ..code.. y-axis is bit_error, x-axis is dB if i want to show what the error rate for each useris. What should i put in nErr(??,??)???? Reply
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@Martin: Maybe you should make a three dimensional matrix. nErr(kk,jj,ii) = size(find([ip- ipHat]),2); Both Matlab and Octave supports multi dimensional matrices. Reply
pradip panchal March 18, 2009 at 10:53 pm Hello sir, Sir, I am Student of Research area, working on MIMO Adaptive equalizer, How to start in this area? pls, help me if you have any matlab based simulation plz, send me guidelines. thanks -pradip Reply
Krishna Pillai March 21, 2009 at 3:49 pm @pradip: Sorry, I have not tried simulatiing MIMO with adaptive equalizers. Were you looking for a channel tracking scheme? Reply
wap March 11, 2009 at 2:43 pm hi krishna we meet again .. I have problems,can you help me, 1.what impact BPSK in high frequency? 2.in this script program have one error, I confused.can you fix the error? this the program % BER_sic=sim_sic_fn(SNR_dB, P, Nb, code_matrix, chan_type) % return bit error rate of the sic receiver in AWGN or rayleigh fading % % PARAMETER: % SNR_dB=signal-ti-nopise ratio in dB % P=power control vector, P(i)=transmitted power of i-th user % Nb=number of transmitted bit % code_matrix=matrix of the spreading code used % chan_type=channel type(1=AWGN, 2=rayleigh fading channel) % % output: % BER_sic=bit error of the sic receiver % function BER_sic=sim_sic_fn(SNR_dB, P, Nb, code_matrix, chan_type) BER_sic=zeros(size(SNR_dB)); K=length(P); %number of user N=size(code_matrix,2); %spreading factor G(:,1)=code_matrix(33,:); G(:,2:K)=code_matrix(1:K-1,:); %generate the crosscorrelation matrix R R=G*G; for p=1:length(SNR_dB), SNR=10^(SNR_dB(p)/10); SNRchip=SNR/N; disp(processing..) error_count=0; %loop for Nb symbol bits for n=1:Nb, %generate a bernoulli symbol, i.e. b=1 or 0 b=input_symbols(K,1); if chan_type==1
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A=sqrt(P); elseif chan_type==2 A=rayleigh(1,K).*sqrt(P); else disp(invalid channel type); dbquit; end %transmitted sinal X=G*(A.*b); %generate the observed data r=awgn_chan(x,SNRchip); %assume that the codes are known and that they are %perfectly synchronized %matched filter output y=G*r; %short users according tho their received powers [y_sorted,sort_order]=sort(y.^2); user_index=find(sort_order==1); y_sorted=y(sort_order); A_sorted=A(sort_order); R_sorted=R(sort_order,sort_order); %detect users successively b_hat=zeros(K,1); b_hat(K)=sign(y_sorted(K)); for u=K-1:-1:1, b_hat(u)=sign(y_sorted(u)-sum(A_sorted(u+1:K).*R_sorted(u+1:K,u).*b_hat(u+1:K))); end b_hat(1)=sign(y_sorted(1)-interference_estimate(1)); %if detected symbol is incerrect, increment the error_count %if b_hat(user_index)~=b(1) error_count=error_count+1; end end %carculating Bit Error rate i.e. the percentage of erroneous %symbol estimates BER_sic(p)=error_count/Nb; end thank before. Reply
Krishna Pillai March 21, 2009 at 7:07 am @wap: My replies: 1. Hmm I dont think there is impact. By high frequency, were you refering to carrier frequency. 2. Sorry, in general. I refuse to debug the code. If you have explicit qs I can try to answer them. Hope this helps. Reply
w@p March 25, 2009 at 5:57 pm thank khrishna for your answer.. how in the code_matrix so that the program is replaced with the gold code? gold code so that this function can be called by sic.. thanks Reply
Krishna Pillai April 4, 2009 at 7:46 am @ w@p: Sorry, am not familiar with the code which you provided. Thanks.
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Martin March 3, 2009 at 11:38 am Hi~ Who can tell me how to establish communicate with basestation 1*m error rate, it means 1 transmitter and m receivers it is randomly pick one user Please help, I am doing my final year project, i have 1 months only, i still have many tasks havent done yet Reply
Krishna Pillai March 5, 2009 at 5:18 am @Martin: You question is vague. Please state your requirement in bit more details to enable a reader to help. Reply
Martin March 10, 2009 at 9:06 am i need to produce a program like this requirement we have m receivers and n users randonly pick one user and communicate with Basestation we need to cal.the 1*m error rate 1 mean 1 transmitter, m is receivers and then run it 10^6 times, find out the error rate also in this simulation, we need to use MRC it is a cellular system only. please help me, because i need to produce distributed antenna system also. Please, i have not enough time to produce Reply
Martin March 12, 2009 at 10:49 am i try to produce it am i right?? % Script for computing the BER for BPSK modulation in a % Rayleigh fading channel clear N = 10^6 % number of bits or symbols % Transmitter ip = rand(1,N)>0.5; % generating 0,1 with equal probability s = 2*ip-1; % BPSK modulation 0 -> -1; 1 -> 0 nRx = [1 2]; Eb_N0_dB = [-3:35]; % multiple Eb/N0 values, ratio of transmission power per bit to noise density x1 = rand; x2 = rand; y1 = rand; y2 = rand; for jj = 1:length(nRx) for ii = 1:length(Eb_N0_dB) n = 1/sqrt(2)*[randn(nRx(jj),N) + j*randn(nRx(jj),N)]; % white gaussian noise, 0dB variance h = 1/sqrt(2)*[randn(nRx(jj),N) + j*randn(nRx(jj),N)]; % Rayleigh channel % Channel and noise Noise addition d = sqrt((x1-x2).^2 + (y1-y2).^2); sD = kron(ones(nRx(jj),1),s); y = d^-2*h.*sD + 10^(-Eb_N0_dB(ii)/20)*n;
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% equalization maximal ratio combining yHat = sum(conj(h).*y,1)./sum(h.*conj(h),1); % receiver hard decision decoding ipHat = real(yHat)>0; % counting the errors nErr(jj,ii) = size(find([ip- ipHat]),2); end end simBer = nErr/N; % simulated ber EbN0Lin = 10.^(Eb_N0_dB/10); theoryBer_nRx1 = 0.5.*(1-1*(1+1./EbN0Lin).^(-0.5)); p = 1/2 1/2*(1+1./EbN0Lin).^(-1/2); theoryBer_nRx2 = p.^2.*(1+2*(1-p)); % plot close all figure semilogy(Eb_N0_dB,theoryBer_nRx1,bp-,'LineWidth,2); hold on semilogy(Eb_N0_dB,simBer(1,:),mo-,'LineWidth,2); semilogy(Eb_N0_dB,theoryBer_nRx2,rd-,'LineWidth,2); semilogy(Eb_N0_dB,simBer(2,:),ks-,'LineWidth,2); axis([0 35 10^-5 0.5]) grid on legend(nRx=1 (theory), nRx=1 (sim), nRx=2 (theory), nRx=2 (sim)); xlabel(Eb/No, dB); ylabel(Bit Error Rate); title(BER for BPSK modulation with Maximal Ratio Combining in Rayleigh channel); Reply
Krishna Pillai March 21, 2009 at 7:12 am @Martin: Sorry, due to time constraints, its increasingly hard for me to debug the code. Good luck in your algorithm explorations.
Krishna Pillai March 21, 2009 at 7:00 am @Martin: Sorry, I am not familiar with the system model which you proposing. Reply
Martin March 2, 2009 at 8:47 am Hi~ Who can tell me how to establish communicate with basestation 1*m error rate, m is receiver it is randomly pick one user Please help, I am doing my final year project, i have 1 months only, i still have many tasks havent done yet Reply
Krishna Pillai March 5, 2009 at 4:56 am @Martin: You question is vague. Typically, one would want to have the error rate as low as possible. Reply
Kenny March 1, 2009 at 12:13 pm Do you still need the solution to simplify the Pb in Rayleigh Fading? I have the answer. Reply
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Krishna Pillai March 5, 2009 at 4:27 am @Kenny: Thanks. However, Mr. Jose Antonio Urigen kindly shared his findings. The URL: http://www.dsplog.com/2009/01/22/derivation-ber-rayleigh-channel/ Reply
VINCENT February 25, 2009 at 9:19 pm My program is fixed and reference to your program,I am trying to set a topology of M nodes which is 250,and then randomly pick 2 nodes and repeat 1000 times for each time,pick two the channel between them and calculate error performance.The error performance of the whole network is calculated and sum up all the d gives the total transmission power. Now I would like to assume each node has a total pt= 100 so that for each pick up,each node used some of its energy to transmit and then therefore each node is different with the saved in pt so that to plot a graph how many nodes alive against the time.my program is below: thank for you help % Script for computing the BER for BPSK modulation in a Rayleigh fading channel clear N = 10^6 % number of bits or symbols % Transmitter ip = rand(1,N)>0.5; % generating 0,1 with equal probability s = 2*ip-1; % BPSK modulation 0 -> -1; 1 -> 0 Eb_N0_dB = [-3:96]; % multiple Eb/N0 values %Generate M nodes M=250; x1 = rand(1,M); x2 = rand(1,M); y1 = rand(1,M); y2 = rand(1,M); % initalize the total power totalpwr = 0; for ii = 1:length(Eb_N0_dB) % Channel and noise Noise addition n = 1/sqrt(2)*[randn(1,N) + j*randn(1,N)]; % white gaussian noise, 0dB variance h = 1/sqrt(2)*[randn(1,N) + j*randn(1,N)]; % Rayleigh channel % randomly pick two nodes and calculate the distance between them i = randint(1,1,[1,100]); u = randint(1,1,[1,100]); d = sqrt((x1(i)-x2(u)).^2 + (y1(i)-y2(u)).^2); d totalpwr = totalpwr+d^4; y = d.^-2.*h.*d.^2.*s + 10^(-Eb_N0_dB(ii)/20)*n; % equalization yHat = y./h; % receiver hard decision decoding ipHat = real(yHat)>0; % counting the errors nErr(ii,1) = size(find([ip- ipHat]),2); end % error performance of the whole network whole_error = sum(nErr)/N; whole_error totalpwr simBer = nErr/N; % simulated ber theoryBerAWGN = 0.5*erfc(sqrt(10.^(Eb_N0_dB/10))); % theoretical ber EbN0Lin = 10.^(Eb_N0_dB/10); theoryBer = 0.5.*(1-sqrt(EbN0Lin./(EbN0Lin+1))); % plot close all figure semilogy(Eb_N0_dB,theoryBer,bp-,'LineWidth,2); hold on semilogy(Eb_N0_dB,simBer,mx-,'LineWidth,2);
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axis([-3 96 10^-5 0.5]) grid on legend(Rayleigh-Theory, Rayleigh-Simulation); xlabel(Eb/No, dB); ylabel(Bit Error Rate); title(BER for BPSK modulation in Rayleigh channel); Reply
VINCENT February 27, 2009 at 10:15 pm
Hi Kirshna ; could you give me some hints on how to solve the problem or give guideance on how to solve,thank you very much.your help is much considerable as i really frustrated about this qu Reply
Krishna Pillai February 28, 2009 at 7:57 am @Vincent: Sorry, I am not familiar with the scenario which you are proposing (and hence unable to help). Reply
VINCENT February 28, 2009 at 10:05 am
Krishna, I am glad to receive your reply,however i received your bad news about your reply,but i really dont understand what is the relationship between your familiarity and m fix my program,or may you give some any others useful link or reference so that i know more details about what happened?your reply is appreciate. Reply
Krishna Pillai March 1, 2009 at 6:58 am @vincent; I just realized a typo in my message. I wanted to say I was not familiar with the scenario which you presented (and hence unable to help).
Filbert February 24, 2009 at 8:27 am Khrisna, Thank you for your explanation. But i think we should consider the Doppler shift in Rayleigh channel. What do you think? Thank you Reply
Krishna Pillai February 26, 2009 at 5:59 am @Filbert: I have not tried modeling Doppler. Let me try to do some reading and get back to you. Reply
Street hawk August 27, 2009 at 7:04 pm The fading considered in your program is Flat and Slow rayleigh fading where there is no doppler spread i.e. max doppler shift (fm=v/lamda) is zero. Am I right? Reply
Krishna Sankar September 7, 2009 at 5:14 am @Street hawk: Its flat fading, no doppler spread. However, the channel varies randomly from each symbol. So its fast fading. Reply
giro82 December 21, 2009 at 4:10 am
I think that if channel is changing every symbol it is mean that it is slow fading (To>Ts, where To- channel coherence time; Ts -symbol duration). Fast fading is w
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Khrisna, Thank you for your response. There is a problem about your Matlabs script i do not understand. For Rayleigh channel you write: h = 1/sqrt(2)*[randn(1,N)+j*randn(1,N)] I notice that the formula for h and n (AWGN) is the same. Why? I think you just generate random complex number for Rayleigh channel. Is it suppose to have its own model, not just random complex number? Thank you Reply
Krishna Pillai February 24, 2009 at 5:34 am
@Filbert: Well, the Rayleigh channel can be modeled as independent Gaussian random variables on the real and imaginary compnents. The factor 1/sqrt(2) to normalize the power o http://www.dsplog.com/2008/07/14/rayleigh-multipath-channel/ for bit more details. Further, note that h is multiplied on the transmit signal, whereas n is added to the transmit signal. So the effects of h and n are different. Hope this helps Reply
Jamil November 6, 2010 at 12:19 am Hi Krishna..
Good day. You told that sqrt(1/2) is used to make the variance unity. However, in Matlab. by default, when you use randn, it creates gaussian random variables with zero m with sqrt(1/2)? Looking forward to your reply. Thanks. -Jamil Reply
Krishna Sankar November 14, 2010 at 10:37 am
@Jamil: Recall, we create two random variables, one for real and another one for imaginary. So to make the variance of the total variance to unity, the factor of 1/sqrt( Reply
Filbert February 22, 2009 at 1:45 pm
Hi Krishna, How are you? I hope you are fine. I tried to simulate BER for OFDM transmission via Rayleigh channel. I wonder if in OFDM receiver i need equalization? I did not use equalization and i Reply
Krishna Pillai February 22, 2009 at 2:31 pm @Filbert: Yes, we need equalization. Without equalization, the random gain and phase error introduced by the channel results in high BER. Reply
ranjay February 19, 2009 at 2:32 pm hi.can u plz tell me how can i find the ber of a qpsk in rayleigh fading channel. Reply
Krishna Pillai February 21, 2009 at 7:37 am @ranjay: Did you want to try modify the Matlab code for BPSK and extend to QPSK case. Reply
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Arvind February 16, 2009 at 10:06 am Hi Krishna, How do you consider the effect of interference in this simulation ?. Suppose the interference is another BPSK modulated signal. Can you replace SNR with SINR to compute BER ?. Your thoughts, Arvind Reply
Krishna Pillai February 21, 2009 at 7:08 am @Arvind: Yes, the signal can be corrupted by another BPSK modulated signal. However, I would think that the BER performance will be poorer in that case. Reply
vasundhara January 29, 2009 at 10:50 pm IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS, VOL. 56, NO. 2, FEBRUARY 2008 213 Soft Handover Overhead Reduction by RAKE Reception with Finger Reassignment Seyeong Choi, Member, IEEE, Mohamed-Slim Alouini, Senior Member, IEEE, Khalid A. Qaraqe, Senior Member, IEEE, and Hong-Chuan Yang, Senior Member, IEEE AbstractWe propose and analyze in this paper a new finger assignment technique that is applicable for RAKE receivers when they operate in the soft handover (SHO) region. This scheme employs a new version of generalized selection combining (GSC). More specifically, in the SHO region, the receiver uses by default only the strongest paths from the serving base station (BS) and only when the combined signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) falls below a certain pre-determined threshold, the receiver uses more resolvable paths from the target BS to improve the performance. Hence, relying on some recent results on order statistics we attack the statistics of two correlated GSC stages and provide the approximate but accurate closed-form expressions for the statistics of the output SNR. By investigating the tradeoff among the error performance, the path estimation load, and the SHO overhead, we show through numerical examples that the new scheme offers commensurate performance in comparison with more complicated GSC-based diversity systems while requiring a smaller estimation load and SHO overhead. Index TermsFading channels, diversity techniques, RAKE receiver, generalized selection combining (GSC), performance analysis. Reply
Leona January 25, 2012 at 6:23 pm Hi I am looking for generalized selection combining for QPSK (or for anything else). Any help please where can I find it? Reply
Krishna Sankar January 26, 2012 at 6:27 am @Leona: You can look at the post on Selection Diversity for BPSK case http://www.dsplog.com/2008/09/06/receiver-diversity-selection-diversity/ Reply
Abrar January 22, 2009 at 10:45 am
Hi Kirshna Thanks for ur reply. Please see this code , I am confused how i added the two version of signal received from two Taps with one sample delay.Initially I have done IFFT of the signal with Four subcarriers.Ple x=transdata1; taps=2; p1=1;
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p2=0.8; gain1=sqrt(p1/2)*[randn(1,length(x)) + j*randn(1,length(x))]; gain2=sqrt(p2/2)*[randn(1,length(x)) + j*randn(1,length(x))]; channel_ifft=ifft([gain1,gain2],length(x)); n=1:length(x); delay1=1; for n=delay1+1:length(x) % Delay of one sample in second tap x1(n)=x(n-delay1); end transdata=channel_ifft.*(x+x1); % confusing here %Addition of noise noise = 1/sqrt(2)*[randn(1,length(x)) + j*randn(1,length(x))]; % Noise snr = [0:10]; % multiple Eb/N0 values ps=mean(abs(x).^2); % Power of the transmitted signal for i = 1:length(snr) y = transdata + (sqrt(3*ps)*10^(-snr(i)/20))*noise; %Addition of Noise %Receiver recdata=y; rx0=recdata.*(1./(channel_ifft)); %Equilizatiom Take care. Reply
Fang January 16, 2009 at 8:50 am Hi! For those who are looking for a more accurate model of the fading coefficients can read the paper by Christos Komninakis and download the program he wrote at: http://www.ee.ucla.edu/~chkomn/RayleighFiles/files.html Its very accurate for fast fading channels! Reply
Krishna Pillai January 17, 2009 at 8:53 am @Fang: Thanks for the link Reply
dean January 11, 2009 at 8:36 am please help me to solve the following writing the matlab code about RCPC code family with memory M = 4 and puncturing period P = 8 and choose overall code rate R = 1/4 with source block size K = 128 bits. it is very urgent for me. if u could do it for me i would be very thankful to you. thanks dean Reply
Krishna Pillai January 13, 2009 at 5:45 am @dean: Am sorry, I typically help people in their simulation model development rather than code myself. You may look at the post on convolutional coding, Viterbi decoding Good luck. Reply
Abrar January 11, 2009 at 7:48 am Hi Kirshna i have three taps and showing below the channel description. I produced the delay of one and two samples in 2nd and third taps. can u guide me how I equlize the channel now. x=transdata1;
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taps=3; p1=1; p2=0.8; p3=0.5; gain1=sqrt(p1/2)*[randn(1,length(x)) + j*randn(1,length(x))]; gain2=sqrt(p2/2)*[randn(1,length(x)) + j*randn(1,length(x))]; gain3=sqrt(p3/2)*[randn(1,length(x)) + j*randn(1,length(x))]; n=1:length(x); delay1=1; delay2=2; for n=delay1+1:length(x) x1(n)=x(n-delay1); end for n=delay2+1:length(x) x2(n)=x(n-delay2); end transdata=gain1.*x+gain2.*x1+gain2.*x2; %Addition of noise noise = 1/sqrt(2)*[randn(1,length(x)) + j*randn(1,length(x))]; % Noise snr = [0:10]; % multiple Eb/N0 values ps=mean(abs(x).^2); % Power of the transmitted signal for i = 1:length(snr) y = transdata + (sqrt(3*ps)*10^(-snr(i)/20))*noise; % Thanks. Reply
Krishna Pillai January 13, 2009 at 5:52 am @mabrarbari: If I may, I find the code snippet which you have provided bit confusing. Some questions: 1. Why is each path gain1, gain2, gain3 having length of the input vector. I would have thought that each path is a single element. 2. Instead of using the for loops you could have used a convolutional operator. In the code snippet, your channel is not a flat fading channel. Need to formulate the multipath channel as matrix and solve the equation. Reply
Abrar January 13, 2009 at 11:03 am
Thanks Kirshna; Yes I have created frequency selective fadded channel in which there is a one sample delay in taps.if i made power of tap 2 and 3 zero it becomes flat fadding and zeroforcing i equilize the channel. 1- Can I go for normalize the channel. 2- can u give me any othe alternate to represent frequency selective channel. Take care. Reply
Krishna Pillai January 16, 2009 at 6:18 am @Abrar: May I try to provide you a simple Matlab code snippet for equalization in the case of a 3 tap channel. clear all;close all x = 2*(rand(1,7)>0.5)-1 % input sequence h = [ 1 2 3]; % channel op1 = conv(x,h); % output of channel hM = toeplitz([h(1) zeros(1,length(x)-1) ], [h zeros(1,length(x)-1) ]); % writing the channel using toeplitz matrix op2 = x*hM ; % finding the output using the matrix multiplication way op1 op2; % verifying that both the outputs are the same. This confirms that toeplitz way of representing h is correct. xHat = op2*pinv(hM) % dividing received symbol with pseudo inverse of the channel to perform equalization
The code performs the simple zero forcing equalization. To represent mathematically, the convolution operation is represented as product a vector and a matrix. At the estimate. This is described in detail in Chapter 3.4.3 of Digital Communications: Fundamentals and Applications by Bernard Sklar Hope this helps. Reply
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shoumi January 8, 2009 at 3:24 pm Dear sir
At first i want to give you thank for this interesting blog..i go through ur posts of matlab code these are really helpfull for me. As i am a new user of matlab i faced some problem during c using matlab:
Calculate path loss between 3 wireless node.By considering the following parameters: BPSk modulation, AWGN channel, transmitter power 15 dB, frequency 2.4 Ghz, patloss exponent transmitting and 2nd node B is receiving signal,as the 3rd node C is located near to the node B it also recieve some signal . i have to calculate the recieved signal to noise ratio at node B an It would be nice if u help me by giving some code or any suggestion. I can not understand how to start Please reply me..i am waiting for your reply with regards shoumi. Reply
Krishna Pillai January 10, 2009 at 9:24 am
@Shoumi: From your problem statement, it seems like you are looking for finding the path loss from between A to B and A to C. Given that you know the transmit power, path loss exponent, and the distance, it should be reasonably easy to find the received signal power. Once the received power is known, b noise bandwidth), SNR can be computed. The link in wiki on path loss might be helpful http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log-distance_path_loss_model Hope this helps. Reply
shoumi January 15, 2009 at 2:47 pm
Thank u for ur reply. Yes i calculate the received power for each node. Now for calculating the SNR for each receiving node ..i have to know the noise at each each receiver AWGN noise???.. Awgn noise is a complex value..and the recived signal is in dBm unit. for calculating the SNR these unit must be samehow can i conver the awgn noise into dBm..Please he Reply
Krishna Pillai January 16, 2009 at 6:24 am
@shoumi: Yes, the noise is complex. But the noise power can be represented in dBm. For example, assume the receiver bandwidth is 20MHz. The noise floor in dBm You may find bit more details on the equation @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_noise Hope this helps. Reply
Abrar January 6, 2009 at 8:37 am Hi Kirshna I am away some time from country , now come back and start working. As u made equilization by just dividing the received signal through channel, any other way to equilizing. if channel become zero then wht happen if we used equlization by dividing. I have defined the channel as x=transdata1; taps=3; p1=1; p2=0; p3=0; gain1=sqrt(p1/2)*[randn(1,length(x)) + j*randn(1,length(x))]; gain2=sqrt(p2/2)*[randn(1,length(x)) + j*randn(1,length(x))]; gain3=sqrt(p3/2)*[randn(1,length(x)) + j*randn(1,length(x))]; n=1:length(x); delay1=1; delay2=2; for n=delay1+1:length(x) x1(n)=x(n-delay1); end
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for n=delay2+1:length(x) x2(n)=x(n-delay2); end transdata=gain1.*x+gain2.*x1+gain2.*x2; %Addition of noise noise = 1/sqrt(2)*[randn(1,length(x)) + j*randn(1,length(x))]; % Noise snr = [0:10]; % multiple Eb/N0 values ps=mean(abs(x).^2); % Power of the transmitted signal for i = 1:length(snr) y = transdata + (sqrt(3*ps)*10^(-snr(i)/20))*noise; % At receiver how I equlize it. Reply
Krishna Pillai January 10, 2009 at 9:06 am @Abrar: If the channel becomes close to zero, equalization by dividing by the channel results in noise amplification. Reply
R.Ramya December 28, 2008 at 10:15 pm Sir, Thank you for giving me the hint. As you said, 2.TO NORMALIZE THE RECEIVED POWER, % Calculation of normalization factor to %make the average power of output signal to 1 norm_fact = sqrt(sum(tap_weights_ln.^2)); 1.TO NORMALIZE EACH TAP WEIGHT: I divided taps_weights by sqrt(length(tap_Weight_ln)). tapWtdB = [ -5 -10 -15 -20 -25]; tap_weights_ln = 10.^(tapWtdB/20); taps=1/sqrt(2)*(randn(10^4,length(tapWtdB)) + j*randn(10^4,length(tapWtdB))); taps_weights = taps.*repmat(tap_weights_ln, 10^4,1); norm_each_tap_weight=taps_weights/sqrt(length(tap_weights_ln)); norm_fact = sqrt(sum(tap_weights_ln.^2)); taps_norm = 1/norm_fact*norm_each_tap_weight; z=mean(abs(taps_norm ).^2); est_tap_weight_db=10*log10(z) total_path_gain_of_channel=sum(mean(abs(taps_norm).^2,1)) o/p: est_tap_weight_db = -8.6703 -13.5813 -18.6063 -23.6805 -28.6429 total_path_gain_of_channel = 0.1991 Here, the total path gain of the channel is not close to one.(very less comparatively) (but the estimated tap weight is close to the original tapweight(dB) ,ofcourse, its value is less because of normalisation) since,total path gain of the channel is not close to 1. Is it acceptable one Sir? Waiting for your reply. Reply
R.Ramya December 20, 2008 at 3:51 pm Thank you for your response sir. In the last post You wrote: Incase of flat fading, Matlab/octave code snippet to illustrate: tapWtdB = -15 h = 10^(tapWtdB/20)*1/sqrt(2)*[randn(1,10^4) + j*randn(1,10^4)]; estTapWt = 10*log10(h*h/length(h)) estTapWt is obtained very close to -15dB. I think length(h) in estTapWt is Normalisation factor.
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In case of Multiple taps tapWtdB = [0 -20 -21]; tapWtdB_linear=10.^(tapWtdB/20); h = 1/sqrt(2)*[randn(10^4,length(tapWtdB)) + j*randn(10^4,length(tapWtdB))]; taps_weights = h.*repmat(tapWtdB_linear, 10^4,1); z=mean(abs(taps_weights/sum(tapWtdB_linear)).^2);estTapWt=10*log10(z);estTapWt estTapWt = -1.5181 -21.4893 -22.5174 PowerdB level is someWhat close to the original tapWtdB. This happens becuase of the Normalisation (1/sqrt(2)) in h line in tha Matlab code. But, if the tapWtdb is [-15 -20 -21]; tapWtdB = [-15 -20 -21]; tapWtdB_linear=10.^(tapWtdB/20); h = 1/sqrt(2)*[randn(10^4,length(tapWtdB)) + j*randn(10^4,length(tapWtdB))]; taps_weights = h.*repmat(tapWtdB_linear, 10^4,1); z=mean(abs(taps_weights/sum(tapWtdB_linear)).^2);estTapWt=10*log10(z);estTapWt estTapWt = -6.3169 -11.3482 -12.2874 Here the difference between the consecutive taps power level (db) is satisfied. estTapWt value is not closer to original original value.
My question is Whether the first tap necessarily be 0dB or someother dB value.If we can have some other value of power dB for the first tap then Can U please correct the Matlab code inorder to get or Reply
Krishna Pillai December 25, 2008 at 7:23 am
@Ramya: In the case of multiple taps, there are two aspects: 1. Firstly, one would want to normalize each tap such that the relative power is as per the tap weight. This can be accomplished by scaling each tap as in the example which I have s 2. Secondly, to normalize the received power, one may want to make the average power from many such channel realizations to unity. Hope this helps. Reply
R.Ramya December 18, 2008 at 11:10 pm Sir, I understood & got the answer for the last two questions Which i have posted previously. Please Check Whether the answers are right. question :2 After modelling has absolute value of complex gaussian R.Vs, from the Power delay profile, we have the Tap weights in dB. Since the variance of rayleigh R.V. h is 1. Tap_weight_db here in our case is = 0 dB. In linear scale its value is 1. Tap_weight = h*(10^(Tap_weight_db)/10 )=h*1=h As per theory,the received signal r is written as r=(Tap_weight * s) + n; question 3: whether the tap (in flat fading)will occur at 0 microseconds 0r 0 ns i.e., without delay.or shall the tap occur after some particular delay? The tap doesnt actually occur at 0 microseconds. These delays are relative to the delay of the tap to which demodulator synchronizes. But my first question was In BER_simulation_BPSK_Rayleigh_channel Matlab Code: given two lines seems to be same n = 1/sqrt(2)*[randn(1,N) + j*randn(1,N)];% WGN,0dB variance h= 1/sqrt(2)*[randn(1,N) + j*randn(1,N)];% Rayleigh channel From theory, h=sqrt(X^2+Y^2)=abs(X+jY); Why abs have not been included ? Waiting for your reply.
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R.Ramya December 18, 2008 at 7:23 am Sir, I saw your Matlab code for BER_simulation_BPSK_Rayleigh_channel. As Rayleigh channel is modelled as |h| |h|=1/sqrt(2).sqrt(X^2+Y^2)=1/sqrt(2).abs(X+jY) if X & Y are two gaussian R.Vs with zero mean and Variance of 1/2 each. In the Matlab code, % white gaussian noise, 0dB variance n = 1/sqrt(2)*[randn(1,N) + j*randn(1,N)]; % Rayleigh channel h= 1/sqrt(2)*[randn(1,N) + j*randn(1,N)]; My question are: 1.Both the above lines are same ( even though complex guassian R.V.s were used) Whether the line given below is correct. Rayleigh R.V. h=1/sqrt(2).*abs([randn(1,N) + j*randn(1,N)]); if it is not correct kindly explain me, why abs should be used?
2.After modelling h, from the Power delay profile, we get the Tap weights in dB .(In our case as theory suggest, since flat fading has been used no. of taps will be only one) Shall we convert tap weights in dB to linear scale and multiply with h and txmitted signal s (since inourcase only one tap is being considered for flat fading, convolution becomes multiplicati mutiplying with Guassian Noise with linear scale Eb_No)
3. For flat fading, since the no. of taps is one. my question is whether that particular will occur at 0 microseconds 0r 0 ns i.e., without delay.or shall that tap can occur after some particular Am i correct in this regard. sorry for troubling U sir, as i am struggling to get hold of things right.This is my first sincere effort in learning digital comm conceps clearly. waiting for your reply. Reply
Krishna Pillai December 19, 2008 at 6:32 am
@Ramya: 1. With the Rayleigh channel, it is assumed that the phase distortion caused by the channel can be uniformly distributed between 0 to 2pi. Hence we model it as independent comple Please look at http://www.dsplog.com/2008/07/14/rayleigh-multipath-channel/ for bit more details.
2. I agree that since we are assuming flat fading, the power delay profile has only one tap. We should scale the variance of channel h in accordance with the gain of the power powe tapWeightdB/20) and not 10^(-tapWeightdB/10) . A quick Matlab/octave code snippet to illustrate: tapWtdB = -15 h = 10^(tapWtdB/20)*1/sqrt(2)*[randn(1,10^4) + j*randn(1,10^4)]; estTapWt = 10*log10(h*h/length(h)) 3. Typically there will be small delay. However, typical receivers will be having a packet detection circuit which can estimate the start of the symbol. Hence for modeling purpose we Reply
Alex December 17, 2008 at 8:14 pm hi there, First, thanks for sharing the understanding of this subject. Regarding the missing part, one can find it on Page 823 in the book, CDMA System Engineering Handbook. It is all about some mathematic manipulations, while the Q(.) function is used to replace the erfc function in the expression. Reply
Krishna Pillai December 18, 2008 at 6:15 am @Alex: Thanks. Let me try to get my hands on the book. Reply
Krishna Pillai November 22, 2008 at 7:40 am @Shefo666: I think the ZF equalizer is optimal in SISO systems.
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With a simple Matlab/Octave script may I try to show that ZF and MMSE equalizer gives the same BER. Infact, am not sure whether we can call it as ZF/MMSE equalization as there i % Matlab/Octave code snippet for comparing zero forcing and MMSE equalization for SISI clear N = 10^4 % number of bits or symbols ip = rand(1,N)>0.5; % generating 0,1 with equal probability s = 2*ip-1; % BPSK modulation 0 -> -1; Eb_N0_dB = 3; n = 1/sqrt(2)*[randn(1,N) + j*randn(1,N)]; % white gaussian noise, 0dB variance h = 1/sqrt(2)*[randn(1,N) + j*randn(1,N)]; % Rayleigh channel % Channel and noise Noise addition y = h.*s + 10^(-Eb_N0_dB/20)*n; % equalization yHat_zf = y./h; % zf equalization yHat_mmse = 1./(h.*conj(h)+ 10^(-Eb_N0_dB/10)).*conj(h).*y; % mmse equalization % receiver hard decision decoding ipHat_zf = real(yHat_zf)>0; ipHat_mmse = real(yHat_mmse)>0; % counting the errors nErr_zf = size(find([ip- ipHat_zf]),2) nErr_mmse = size(find([ip- ipHat_mmse]),2) Can see that nErr_zf and nErr_mmse is the same. Hope this helps. Reply
WirelessNewbie September 3, 2009 at 3:43 pm Hi Krishna could you please refer : http://books.google.com/books?id=3DY6OAIGu0kC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=&f=false (Introduction to Space Time Communications) Which gives a comparison of ZF, MMSE,etc for SISO It shows MMSE is better than ZF for SISO. Regards Reply
WirelessNewbie September 3, 2009 at 3:44 pm Page 141 Reply
Krishna Sankar September 9, 2009 at 5:32 am @WirelessNewbie: Sorry, the page 141 is not available from the link you provided. Let me try to get the book from the library, and I will respond. One query: Is the claim that ZF is better than MMSE for SISO for a flat fading channel? Reply
Shefo666 November 21, 2008 at 5:18 am Dear Krishna Pillai,
Thanks for the very interesting blog .. I am wondering whether it makes any sense to apply MMSE and ML equalization on SISO communication systems in order to get over the ZF equalization major problem of noise enhan In such a case, how is the theoretical BER performance of BPSK (for instance) over flat rayleigh (given by proakis, Digital communications) affected ? can u reccommend any papers that equalization over flat fading .. Most papers i got assume ZF equalization when it comes to SISO systems ! Reply
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@Tahmid: Moving the simulation to 4-QAM should be reasonably simple. First thing is that we will be sending information on both real and imgainary arms. Correspondingly, use the infor You can use the Matlab model provided here http://www.dsplog.com/2007/11/06/symbol-error-rate-for-4-qam/ as reference. Hope this helps. Reply
Krishna Pillai November 15, 2008 at 8:17 am @Muhammad: Thanks. Glad that you are finding http://www.dsplog.com useful for your studies. Happy learning! Reply
Krishna Pillai November 15, 2008 at 8:01 am @Abrar: Thanks for the comment. Sorry for the delayed response. I was travelling. Typically for channel estimation, we send a known sequence (called preamble). Using the knowledge of the known sequence and what we received, we can estimate the channel. For eg, in a multi-carrier OFDM system, the system model can be written as Y = HX + N where Y is the received symbol on subcarrier k H is the channel on subcarrier k X is the transmitted symbol on subcarrier k N is the noise on subcarrier k Since X is known, the estimate of H is, H^ = Y/X Does this help? Reply
Tahmid November 14, 2008 at 1:30 pm Hi Krishna,
I am trying to follow this tutorial and extend it further to simulations for 4-QAM over Rayleigh fading channels. Could you please tell me how the code to apply the fading channel would ch Reply
Muhammad November 14, 2008 at 12:45 am I am Muhammad from Pakistan, I was in need to compute the Bit error rate of BPSK and QPSK in AWGN and Rayleigh fading channel. After finding this document, i was very happy as it improve my knowledge and releive my burden. Thanks for all Reply
Abrar November 10, 2008 at 3:42 am
Hi Kirshna thanks for ur reply and sorry for the t I am saying thanks very late bec i am busy in my exam.Hoping U r fine, may GOD bless u. I am doing Postgraduate diploma in Massey University N I am doing simulation on MC-CDMA. So I need ur help in modeling frequency selective channel. if u have any code about frequency selective chanel estimation, it will helpful for me. I am some extent. waiting for ur reply. Thanks nad Take care. abrar Reply
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@Sky: 1/sqrt(2) is for normalizing the channel gain to unity. I think it is required, as the derivations are for unity channel gain. Reply
Sky Stradlin November 6, 2008 at 7:32 pm Hi, Could you please explain on how you get h = 1/sqrt(2)*[randn(1,N) + j*randn(1,N)]; for Rayleigh? Coz I think, it should be just randn(1,N) + j*randn(1,N) Thanks Reply
Krishna Pillai November 5, 2008 at 5:34 am @Leon: Thanks. The derivation has been pending for a while from my side. Let me try to go over it by over the week. Reply
Leon Craven November 3, 2008 at 12:08 pm Hi Krishna, Jussi Poikonen is correct, you can determine the double integral in this fashion to obtain the desired result. Reply
Krishna Pillai October 29, 2008 at 9:55 am @davis: Sorry for the delayed response, I was down with viral fever. I had written a post on BFSK some time in the past. URI: http://www.dsplog.com/2007/08/30/bit-error-rate-for-frequency-shift-keying-with-coherent-demodulation/ The post describes BFSK in AWGN case. You can convolve the transmit signal x with the impulse response of the channel (lets say h) before adding the noise n. Reply
Krishna Pillai October 29, 2008 at 9:51 am @Abrar: Sorry for the delayed response, I got bogged down by viral fever. Yes, this is a simple form equalization, which basically tries to make the effective channel as impulse. Since this a simple one tap channel, the equalization becomes just a division. This can can read more about equalization in Chapter 8 of Digital Communication: Third Edition, by John R. Barry, Edward A. Lee, David G. Messerschmitt. Hope this helps. Reply
davis October 27, 2008 at 2:34 am Hello Kirshna I doing project on bfsk with rayleigh multipath chanel i wish to ask you if I use not an envelop but modulated fsk 0->cos(f1*t) and 1->cos(f2*t) how can I simulate rayleigh multipath chanel for bfsk in this case? thank you Davis Reply
Abrar October 25, 2008 at 8:36 am Hi Kirshna: hoping u r fine. I just want to ask about equlization which u have done here just by dividing by channel. is it another method of equlization. can u give some explation about equlization or refer some material about it, bec, I want to understand it.
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Sairam October 20, 2008 at 10:32 pm yES SIR IT IS USED IN OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS. Reply
Krishna Pillai October 19, 2008 at 6:42 pm @Sairam: Ok, thanks. Are there some practical systems taking advantage of non-orthogonality to improve spectral efficiency. Can you please point me to the same. Reply
Sairam October 18, 2008 at 3:27 pm
it can be obtained if the orthogonal condition is not satisfied. But the derivations become more complicated. the advantage is that it provide high spectral efficiency. ok sir thank u for ur fas Reply
Krishna Pillai October 17, 2008 at 10:16 pm
@sairam: By non-coherent, hope you meant a scheme like DBPSK. Correct? I have not tried to discuss the deivation for BER with non-coherent modulation in any blog post yet. Someth Can you give an example for non-orthogonal modulation? Reply
Sairam October 16, 2008 at 10:05 pm Sir How to derive the probability error of Non-coherent Non-Orhogonal modulation. TRhanking you sir!! Reply
Krishna Pillai October 16, 2008 at 9:26 pm @Jussi Poikonen: Thanks for the guidance. Let me try to go over the steps per your suggestion. Reply
Jussi Poikonen October 15, 2008 at 12:42 am
You will find that the missing steps in the derivation above can be completed by writing open the final (double) integral, and changing the order of integration. That is, integrate first with res complementary error function), and then with respect to x from 0 to infinity. The integration problem is finally reduced to single integrals from 0 to infinity over zero-mean Gaussian distribut Reply
Krishna Pillai October 7, 2008 at 5:01 am @Varun: Probability of error in Rayleigh fading channel. Reply
Krishna Pillai October 7, 2008 at 5:01 am @nano686: This post does the simulation with a Rayleigh channel. Further, there are quite a few posts on Rayleigh channel URI: http://www.dsplog.com/tag/rayleigh/ Hope this helps. Reply
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nano686 October 6, 2008 at 8:16 pm Hi, I dont know simulate Rayleigh channel by Matlab. Can you help me? Thanks and Regards. Reply
V Varun October 4, 2008 at 12:05 pm @ Pillai Which equation ? Is it the probability of error in a Rayleigh fading channel or the probability of error in a AWGN channel ? Let me know so that i can come up with a solution if i know Reply
Krishna Pillai October 4, 2008 at 10:14 am
@Varun: Yes, here the random variable is instantaneous SNR. Btw, do you know how to complete the proof? I have not figured that out. Kindly let me know, if you can prove the equatio Thanks. Reply
V Varun October 3, 2008 at 8:45 am @Krishna Pillai Thanks a lot for giving me a reply. So this is similar to finding the mean of a random variable right !!! Here the random variable is instantaneous SNR right !!! Comment on this statement S Reply
Krishna Pillai October 2, 2008 at 8:14 pm @Varun: Because of Rayleigh fading, the instantaneous SNR for a particular channel realization is |h|^2*Eb/N0. So, to find the average bit error rate, we need to average over all channel probability. Does that help? Reply
V Varun October 2, 2008 at 4:15 pm Hi,
In order to find probability of error in a rayleigh fading channel we will average the conditional probability of error of the particular modulation scheme in AWGN channel over the rayleigh explanation. Thanks and Regards, V Varun. Reply
khurshid September 8, 2008 at 6:58 pm thanks krishna actually i have to show the performance comparison of different strategies of cooperative communication.. different combining techniques at receiver may also be considered but not compulsory.. it is quit similar to relaying.. i have sent some matlab codes on krishna at dsplog com it shows some error which i fail to removed. please help me in removing these errors Reply
Krishna Pillai September 8, 2008 at 9:47 am @khurshid: Sorry, I can help with your coding but not do coding for you.
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As a first step, you may try to create a packet error rate simulation environment with the above mentioned parameters. Are you using OFDM? Reply
khurshid September 7, 2008 at 12:09 am
hello! i go through your posts of matlab code, these are very helpful. please help me to solve the following writing the matlab code. Assume BPSK modulation with equal user transmit powers. The channels between users (interuser) and to the base station (uplink) are mutually independent with flat, Rayleigh fading that remains constant over each source block (quasi-static fading). Each receiver has perfect CSI and employs coherent detection, and we quantify the quality of each channel by its average received SNR. We use the RCPC code fam and choose overall code rate R = 1/4 with source block size K = 128 bits. if more detail is needed please inform me it is very urgent for me. if u could do it for me i would be very thankful to you. thanks khurshid Reply
lealemta August 21, 2008 at 1:36 pm Thank you! Kirishna, hope fully ur script is very very help full for my work but still i have doubt on how to write a matlab script to simulate a frequency selective fading channel. for example a channel of 120 Hz Doppler frequency. Reply
leslie April 24, 2010 at 7:45 pm You may use the BEM channel model for it.It is great to simulate the Jakes channel model. Reply
Krishna Sankar April 27, 2010 at 5:19 am @Ok, thanks Reply
Humayun March 10, 2012 at 6:00 pm What is BEM channel ? Reply
Krishna Sankar March 12, 2012 at 4:42 am @Humayun: I have not tried to simulate BEM channel model Reply
Krishna Pillai August 21, 2008 at 1:18 pm @Lealem: Yes, the above simulation is for a flat Rayleigh fading channel.
In the OFDM case, though the total channel is a frequency selective channel, the channel experienced by the individual subcarriers will still be flat fading channel. Am expecting that a rayle expected BER performance in OFDM will be the same as the results obtained in the above plot. I will run simulations to check and confirm. Reply
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Krishna Pillai April 11, 2009 at 6:38 am @JERRY: You may refer to the post on Derivation of BER for BPSK in Rayleigh channel for the proof. http://www.dsplog.com/2009/01/22/derivation-ber-rayleigh-channel/ Further, this is discussed in Chapter 11.3 of Digital Communications by Barry, Lee, Meesserschmit. Reply
balaji May 27, 2009 at 7:09 pm Hi mate i went through your code and it was great. Im just learning about mimo equalization and all. Will you be able to help me generate a code for 22 MIMO equalised using thanks in advance. cheers. Reply
Krishna Pillai May 31, 2009 at 8:34 pm
@balaji: I have written some posts on MIMO. You may look up them @ http://www.dsplog.com/tag/mimo In those posts, you may use the MIMO with Zero Forcing Equalizer as the most simplest example. When you said, equalizing MIMO by SVD, did you mean pre-compensin experienced by the MIMO channel is diagonal? [U S V] = svd(H) Reply
leslie April 25, 2010 at 8:05 am Its useful~~Thank you! Reply
ALI July 25, 2010 at 11:54 pm hi, i need few matlab codes oF MIMO AND SISO SYSTEMS ON AWGN FADING CHANNEL AND RICIAN FADING CHANNEL. MANY THANKS Reply
Krishna Sankar July 26, 2010 at 6:47 am @Ali: You may refer posts @ http://www.dsplog.com/tag/mimo These are flat faiding Rayleigh channel Reply
Ali July 26, 2010 at 3:32 pm
Hi Krishna , Thanks for the reply ! Well as we have detailed information about rayleigh fading channel on this link http://www.dsplog.com/2008/08/10/ber-bpsk-rayleigh-channel/ can i have a similar information about rician and awgn, as i have already gone through the link which you have posted me unfortunately i couldnt find what exactly i am Thanks Reply
Krishna Sankar July 27, 2010 at 7:09 am @Ali: The BER for BPSK in AWGN can be found @ http://www.dsplog.com/2007/08/05/bit-error-probability-for-bpsk-modulation/ Sorry, I have not written anything on Rician channel as on today.
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Krishna Sankar July 27, 2010 at 7:09 am @Ali: The BER for BPSK in AWGN can be found @ http://www.dsplog.com/2007/08/05/bit-error-probability-for-bpsk-modulation/ Sorry, I have not written anything on Rician channel as on today
Lealem Tamirat August 19, 2008 at 6:11 pm
I have seen the simulation code which u used to simulate a Rayleigh fading channel. But i would like u to ask a hit how to simulate a frequency selective Rayleigh fading channel for OFDM Rayleigh fading. Thank you!!! Reply
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Krishna Sankar December 23, 2009 at 5:46 am @giro82: In this simulation, the channel changes every symbol Reply
FERNANDO March 12, 2010 at 4:54 pm Khishma, please, BER BPSK OFDM in raileigh channel should be better than BER OFDM in Rayleigh channel? Explain? Please. Thank you very much. Reply
FERNANDO March 12, 2010 at 6:35 pm Khishma, please, BER BPSK OFDM in raileigh channel should be better than BER BPSK in Rayleigh channel? Explain? Please. Thank you very much. Reply Reply
Krishna Sankar March 28, 2010 at 3:44 pm @FERNANDO: Due to the cyclic prefix, OFDM can handle mutipath channels better http://www.dsplog.com/2008/02/17/cylcic-prefix-in-orthogonal-frequency-division-multiplexing/ http://www.dsplog.com/2008/08/26/ofdm-rayleigh-channel-ber-bpsk/ Reply Leave a Comment
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