Configure Eb/No for AWGN Channels with Coding
This example shows how to set the bit energy to noise density ratio (Eb/No) for communication links employing channel coding.
Specify the codeword and message length for a Reed-Solomon code. Specify the modulation order.
N = 15; % R-S codeword length in symbols K = 9; % R-S message length in symbols M = 16; % Modulation order
Construct a (15,9) Reed-Solomon encoder and a 16-PSK modulator. Specify the objects so that they accept bit inputs.
rsEncoder = comm.RSEncoder('CodewordLength',N,'MessageLength',K, ... 'BitInput',true); pskModulator = comm.PSKModulator('ModulationOrder',M,'BitInput',true);
Create the corresponding Reed-Solomon decoder and 16-PSK demodulator objects.
rsDecoder = comm.RSDecoder('CodewordLength',N,'MessageLength',K, ... 'BitInput',true); pskDemodulator = comm.PSKDemodulator('ModulationOrder',M,'BitOutput',true);
Calculate the Reed-Solomon code rate based on the ratio of message symbols to the codeword length. Determine the bits per symbol for the PSK modulator.
codeRate = K/N; bitsPerSymbol = log2(M);
Specify the uncoded Eb/No in dB. Convert the uncoded Eb/No to the corresponding coded Eb/No using the code rate.
UncodedEbNo = 6; CodedEbNo = UncodedEbNo + 10*log10(codeRate);
Construct an AWGN channel taking into account the number of bits per symbol. Set the EbNo
property of channel
to the coded Eb/No.
channel = comm.AWGNChannel('BitsPerSymbol',bitsPerSymbol);
channel.EbNo = CodedEbNo;
Set the total number of errors and bits for the simulation. For accuracy, the simulation should run until a sufficient number of bit errors are encountered. The number of total bits is used to ensure that the simulation does not run too long.
totalErrors = 100; totalBits = 1e6;
Construct an error rate calculator System object™ and initialize the error rate vector.
errorRate = comm.ErrorRate; errorVec = zeros(3,1);
Run the simulation to determine the BER.
while errorVec(2) < totalErrors && errorVec(3) < totalBits % Generate random bits dataIn = randi([0,1],360,1); % Use the RS (15,9) encoder to add error correction capability dataEnc = rsEncoder(dataIn); % Apply 16-PSK modulation txSig = pskModulator(dataIn); % Pass the modulated data through the AWGN channel rxSig = channel(txSig); % Demodulate the received signal demodData = pskDemodulator(rxSig); % Decode the demodulated data with the RS (15,9) decoder dataOut = rsDecoder(demodData); % Collect error statistics errorVec = errorRate(dataIn,demodData); end
Display the resultant bit error rate.
ber = errorVec(1)
ber = 0.0935