Lab-MIMO
KAPIL JOSHI
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EXPERIMENT – 6
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% Script for computing the BER for BPSK modulation in a
% Rayleigh fading channel with Alamouti Space Time Block Coding
% Two transmit antenna, 1 Receive antenna
clear
N = 10^6; % number of bits or symbols
Eb_N0_dB = [0:25]; % multiple Eb/N0 values
for ii = 1:length(Eb_N0_dB)
% Transmitter
ip = rand(1,N)>0.5; % generating 0,1 with equal probability
s = 2*ip-1; % BPSK modulation 0 -> -1; 1 -> 0
% Alamouti STBC
sCode = zeros(2,N);
sCode(:,1:2:end) = (1/sqrt(2))*reshape(s,2,N/2); % [x1 x2 ...]
sCode(:,2:2:end) = (1/sqrt(2))*(kron(ones(1,N/2),[-
1;1]).*flipud(reshape(conj(s),2,N/2))); % [-x2* x1* ....]
h = 1/sqrt(2)*[randn(1,N) + j*randn(1,N)]; % Rayleigh channel
hMod = kron(reshape(h,2,N/2),ones(1,2)); % repeating the same
channel for two symbols
n = 1/sqrt(2)*[randn(1,N) + j*randn(1,N)]; % white gaussian
noise, 0dB variance
% Channel and noise Noise addition
y = sum(hMod.*sCode,1) + 10^(-Eb_N0_dB(ii)/20)*n;
% Receiver
yMod = kron(reshape(y,2,N/2),ones(1,2)); % [y1 y1 ... ; y2
y2 ...]
yMod(2,:) = conj(yMod(2,:)); % [y1 y1 ... ; y2* y2*...]
% forming the equalization matrix
hEq = zeros(2,N);
hEq(:,[1:2:end]) = reshape(h,2,N/2); % [h1 0 ... ; h2 0...]
hEq(:,[2:2:end]) = kron(ones(1,N/2),[1;-
1]).*flipud(reshape(h,2,N/2)); % [h1 h2 ... ; h2 -h1 ...]
hEq(1,:) = conj(hEq(1,:)); % [h1* h2* ... ; h2 -h1 .... ]
hEqPower = sum(hEq.*conj(hEq),1);
yHat = sum(hEq.*yMod,1)./hEqPower; % [h1*y1 + h2y2*, h2*y1 -
h1y2*, ... ]
yHat(2:2:end) = conj(yHat(2:2:end));
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% receiver - hard decision decoding
ipHat = real(yHat)>0;
% counting the errors
nErr(ii) = size(find([ip- ipHat]),2);
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);
theoryBerMRC_nRx2 = p.^2.*(1+2*(1-p));
pAlamouti = 1/2 - 1/2*(1+2./EbN0Lin).^(-1/2);
theoryBerAlamouti_nTx2_nRx1 = pAlamouti.^2.*(1+2*(1-pAlamouti));
close all
figure
semilogy(Eb_N0_dB,theoryBer_nRx1,'bp-','LineWidth',2);
hold on
semilogy(Eb_N0_dB,theoryBerMRC_nRx2,'kd-','LineWidth',2);
semilogy(Eb_N0_dB,theoryBerAlamouti_nTx2_nRx1,'c+-','LineWidth',2);
semilogy(Eb_N0_dB,simBer,'mo-','LineWidth',2);
axis([0 25 10^-5 0.5])
grid on
legend('theory (nTx=1,nRx=1)', 'theory (nTx=1,nRx=2, MRC)', 'theory
(nTx=2, nRx=1, Alamouti)', 'sim (nTx=2, nRx=1, Alamouti)');
xlabel('Eb/No, dB');
ylabel('Bit Error Rate');
title('BER for BPSK modulation with Alamouti STBC (Rayleigh
channel)');
PLOT -
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