ECE 417: Wireless Communications ASSIGNMENT

Assignment 3
Issued January 12, 2019; Due January 16, 2019

1. BPSK system - Matlab simulation

• Simulate and plot the bit-error-rate (BER) performances of a digital communica-

tion system using BPSK over an additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel
in Matlab. Please use the following Eb /N0 : 0dB, 1dB, 2dB, 3dB, 4dB, 5dB, and
6dB. Basically, you need to perform the following tasks in Matlab at each Eb /N0 :
– Generate a random sequence of binary information that consists of a suffi-
ciently large number of bits, e.g., 105 bits.
– For each bit, modulate and transmit it using the baseband model: r[m] =
x[m] + n[m], where n[m] is a Gaussian random√ variable with mean 0 and
variance N0 /2. Note that you can simply fix Eb = 1, i.e., x[m] = 1 or
x[m] = −1, depending on the bit being 1 or 0, respectively, and generate
noise n[m] with the variance 1/(2Eb /N0 ). That gives you an equivalent system
operating at signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) Eb /N0 .
– At the receiver, the received signal r[m] is decoded based on the maximum
likelihood decoding rule, i.e., the minimum distance receiver as we discussed
in class.
– Compare the decoded binary sequence and the transmitted binary sequence,
i.e., find the number of bits that the two sequences differ, and calculate the
corresponding bit error rate.
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• Verify the simulated results with the closed-form expression Q( 2Eb /N0 ) by plot-
ting the two results on the same graph.

Please submit all the BER plots together with the Matlab source codes.

2. What is QAM modulation scheme? Provide an example of a 16-QAM modulation

scheme using a specific mapping (of your choice) from binary bits to the 16 signal
points. Write down explicitly each modulated waveform that is used to transmit each
group of bits.

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