Wireless Design with MATLAB

Mandar Gujrathi
Applications Engineer
[email protected]

© 2016 The MathWorks, Inc.

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If you had a choice….

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When things get social…..

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Evolution of Air Interface Technologies

4G 5G ?

Requirements
Higher data rates
5G Efficient spectrum use
3GPP Rel-8
Dec 2008
Rel-9 standardization Spatial resource
Rel-10
LTE, LTE-A Dec 2009
Mar 2011 Rel-11
Rel-12 Low delay & link adaptability
Mar 2013
Mar 2015 Rel-13 Reliable service everywhere
Mar 2016
Rel-14 High connection density

2016 2018 2020+

Proposed enabling technologies

IEEE 802.11ad Massive MIMO

802.11 802.11ax Small Cells, HetNets
WLAN 802.11ay
802.11ah New Modulations
standards
802.11p New Frequency bands
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While this is all true…..

 I would like to simulate my communication system to see the effect of

various parameters

 It would be good if there are ready to use channel models

 Our project demands design of antennas, visualise their parameters and

test their performance.

 While I do all this I would also like to connect & test this on a hardware

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Agenda

 I would like to simulate my communication system to see the effect of

various parameters

 It would be good if there are ready to use channel models

 Our project demands design of antennas, visualise their parameters and

test their performance.

 While I do all this I would also like to connect & test this on a hardware

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Simulate the communication system & tune the parameters

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How does a Digital Communication System work?
Transmitter

Input
bits
Channel Modulation MIMO
.. . Large-scale
fading
Coding . (path-loss …)

Small-scale
fading
(Multipath,
Channel Doppler
effects)

Interference

Noise
Receiver OFDM
receiver
Output
bits … …
MIMO Channel
Channel De-
Receiver estimation … …
decoding modulation
Equaliser
OFDM
receiver

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Channel modeling & propagation scenarios

Mobile context
(WiMAX or LTE) Interfering
Base
station
Multipath
fading
pathloss

Signal
Base
station pathloss

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Challenges in designing and evaluating Mobile Communications
(more time, earlier)
– Performance evaluation with realistic channel models
– Transceiver system responding to dynamic channel conditions
– Evaluating the combined effects of
 Fading channels
 Interfering signals
 Non-linearity of front-end receivers
 Phase noise, Frequency offset, Timing mismatch, IQ imbalance
 Channel estimation & Equalization
 Antenna arrays & directional propagation
 Beamforming & beam steering
 …

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Telemetry

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Why look at MIMO-OFDM systems?

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Communications Systems Toolbox

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Baseband demo workflow

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Version 1: Baseline - Modulation and Coding

 Start with a SISO transceiver with modulation, coding, scrambling

 Channel modeling (Interferer + path loss)
 No multipath fading yet
 Isotropic (non-directional) antennas (1x1)

Interference

𝜃𝐼 Source (I)

𝜃𝑆
Signal
Source (S)
𝑑𝐼
𝑑𝑆

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MATLAB tools for modeling of adaptive modulation and
coding
• Use algorithms in Communications
System Toolbox

• Quickly build and run fast & reliable

simulations

• Simulate dynamic changes of systems

(such as modulation scheme)

• Perform measurements and examine

performance metrics during simulation

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Agenda

 I would like to simulate my communication system to see the effect of

various parameters

 It would be good if there are ready to use channel models

 Our project demands design of antennas, visualise their parameters and

test their performance.

 While I do all this I would also like to connect & test this on a hardware

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Are there any ready to use channel models?

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Supported IEEE 802.11 Standards + heaps other
Standard Bandwidth MIMO Designation
(MHz)
802.11ac 20,40,80,160 Up to 8 spatial streams, VHT
MU-MIMO Very High Throughput

802.11n 20,40 Up to 4 spatial streams HT

High Throughput
802.11g 20 N/A Non-HT
802.11a 5,10,20 N/A
802.11b 20 N/A
802.11p 5,10 N/A As of
R2016a
802.11j 10 N/A
Urban, Rural, Indoor, Outdoor, etc. models in Communications Tbx
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Agenda

 I would like to simulate my communication system to see the effect of

various parameters

 It would be good if there are ready to use channel models

 Our project demands design of antennas, visualise their parameters and

test their performance.

 While I do all this I would also like to connect & test this on a hardware

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Design antennas/ arrays, visualise their parameters and test
their performance

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Antenna and Phase Array System toolbox

 Design, analyse, and visualise of antenna elements and arrays.

 Compute port properties such as impedance, surface properties such as

current and charge distribution, and field properties such as the near-field
and far-field radiation pattern.

 Integrate antennas and arrays into wireless systems, and use impedance
analysis to design matching networks.

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Design Antenna and Analyse Performance over Wi-Fi band.

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Sensor Array Analyser: Analyse sensor array configurations

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Agenda

 I would like to simulate my communication system to see the effect of

various parameters

 It would be good if there are ready to use channel models

 Our project demands design of antennas, visualise their parameters and

test their performance.

 While I do all this I would also like to connect & test this on a hardware

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Connect to Hardware and see it happen !

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MathWorks Support of Hardware

http://www.mathworks.com/hardware-support/index.html
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How can we help

What the Engineer Has

ENGINEER’s COMPUTER

MATLAB or Simulink,
? HARDWARE

Radio card, Audio card,

Sensor, Test equipment
System Toolboxes

? ? ?
? ?
?

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Software setup: Hardware support packages

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Supported hardware for radio connectivity

 RTL-SDR (US$25)
– Ultra low-cost, low-bandwidth
– RX Only

 USRP ($1800)
– Customizable RF front-end

 Xilinx FPGA-based radio ($2500)

– High bandwidth (~25MHz)
– Possible FPGA target

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Digital to
Data Source Channel Digital RF Front
Analog Antenna
Source Encoding Encoding Modulation * End
converter

Air
Channel

Analog to
Data Source Channel Digital RF Front
Digital Antenna
Sink Decoding Decoding Demodulation End
converter

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Digital to
Data Source Channel Digital RF Front
Analog Antenna
Source Encoding Encoding Modulation End
converter

Air
Channel

Analog to
Data Source Channel Digital RF Front
Digital Antenna
Sink Decoding Decoding Demodulation End
converter

Software
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Digital to
Data Source Channel Digital RF Front
Analog Antenna
Source Encoding Encoding Modulation End
converter

Air
Channel

Analog to
Data Source Channel Digital RF Front
Digital Antenna
Sink Decoding Decoding Demodulation End
converter

Hardware
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Example:
Over-the-air testing with SDRs & RF instruments

Demo

Process original
data bits and Capture received Process received
Transmit waveform
generate custom samples with samples in
using SDR devices
digital baseband SDR devices or receiver.
or RF instruments
waveforms in RF instruments Decode/recover
transmitter original data

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Supported SDRs & RF instruments

RF Signal Generator RF Spectrum Analyzer

Zynq Radio SDR Zynq Radio SDR

USRP SDR
USRP SDR

RTL SDR

Transmitter Receiver

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Key takeaways

Simulation
Design and Verification
Simulate baseband and RF systems
Including LTE & WLAN standards

Testing
Over-the-air testing
Validate models with SDR, RF instruments and other
low-cost hardware

Prototyping and Implementation

Deploy algorithms onto target system

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MathWorks Resources

 Resources for Wireless Communications

– Webinars, White papers, Resource kits, etc.

 Training on Signal Processing, Communications

– LTE, Communications, DSP, RF Systems, etc.

 Talk to us,
– [email protected]
– [email protected] (Education Account Manager)

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