%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % All rights reserved by Krishna Pillai, http://www.dsplog.com % The file may not be re-distributed without explicit authorization % from Krishna Pillai. % Checked for proper operation with Octave Version 3.0.0 % Author : Krishna Pillai % Email : krishna@dsplog.com % Version : 1.0 % Date : 12 April 2009 % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Script for computing the BER for BPSK modulation in a % Rayleigh fading channel with and without transmit beamforming 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 nTx = 2; Eb_N0_dB = [0:35]; % multiple Eb/N0 values for ii = 1:length(Eb_N0_dB) n = 1/sqrt(2)*[randn(1,N) + j*randn(1,N)]; % white gaussian noise, 0dB variance 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; y2 = sum(hEff.*sr,1) + 10^(-Eb_N0_dB(ii)/20)*n; % equalization y1Hat = y1./sum(h,1); y2Hat = y2./sum(hEff,1); % receiver - hard decision decoding ip1Hat = real(y1Hat)>0; ip2Hat = real(y2Hat)>0; % counting the errors nErr1(ii) = size(find([ip- ip1Hat]),2); nErr2(ii) = size(find([ip- ip2Hat]),2); end simBer1 = nErr1/N; % simulated ber (no beam forming) simBer2 = nErr2/N; % simulated ber (with beam forming) 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))); p = 1/2 - 1/2*(1+1./EbN0Lin).^(-1/2); theoryBer_nRx2 = p.^2.*(1+2*(1-p)); close all figure semilogy(Eb_N0_dB,theoryBer,'bp-','LineWidth',2); hold on semilogy(Eb_N0_dB,simBer1,'ys-','LineWidth',2); semilogy(Eb_N0_dB,theoryBer_nRx2,'gp-','LineWidth',2); semilogy(Eb_N0_dB,simBer2,'mx-','LineWidth',2); axis([0 35 10^-5 0.5]) grid on legend('1tx-1rx (theory)','2tx-1rx (no beamforming-sim)','1tx-2rx (mrc-theory)','2tx-1rx (beamforming-sim)'); xlabel('Eb/No, dB'); ylabel('Bit Error Rate'); title('BER for BPSK modulation in Rayleigh channel');