Mobile Communication Lab

Lab 07

To Perform Block Interleaving in Simulink

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 Block Coding
• An interleaver permutes symbols according to a
mapping.

• A corresponding deinterleaver uses the inverse

mapping to restore the original sequence of
symbols.

• Interleaving and deinterleaving can be useful for

reducing errors caused by burst errors in a
communication system.

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 Interleaving Features of the Blockset
• This blockset provides interleavers in two broad
categories:

• Block interleavers.
This category includes matrix, random, algebraic,
and helical scan interleavers as special cases.

• Convolutional interleavers.
This category includes a helical interleaver as a
special case, as well as a general multiplexed
interleaver.
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 Block Interleavers
• A block interleaver accepts a set of symbols and
rearranges them, without repeating or omitting
any of the symbols in the set.

• The number of symbols in each set is fixed for a

given interleaver.

• The interleaver’s operation on a set of symbols is

independent of its operation on all other sets of
symbols.
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 Example 7a
The following example shows how to use an interleaver to
improve the error rate when the channel produces bursts of
errors

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 Creating the Vector of Errors
• Before running the model, use the following
code to create a binary vector in the MATLAB
workspace.

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• To determine the ratio of the number of 1s to
the total number of symbols in the vector
errors, type

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 Building the Model
• To start building the model, follow these steps:

• Type commlib at the MATLAB prompt.

This opens the Communications Blockset main library.

• Type dsplib at the MATLAB prompt.

This opens the DSP Blockset main library.

• Type simulink3 at the MATLAB prompt.

This opens the Main Simulink Library.

• From the library's File menu, select New and then select Model.
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Bernoulli Binary Generator
• Check the frame based data box
• Set Samples per frame to 4.
• Set output data type to Boolean

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• Signal From Workspace
- Set Signal to errors.
- Set Sample time to 4/7.
- Set Samples per frame to 84

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Hamming Encoder
Hamming Decoder,
<with default parameter values>

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 Buffer (2 copies)
(1) Set Output buffer size (per channel)to 84
(2) Set Output buffer size (per channel)to 7

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Random Interleaver
Random Deinterleaver
- Set Number of elements to 84.

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Logical Operator
- Set Operator to XOR

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• Error Rate Calculation
Set Receive delay to (4/7)*84.
- Set Computation delay to 100.
- Set Output data to Port.

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• Display

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 Running Simulation
• Connect the blocks as shown
• Set Stop time to length(errors)

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 Lab Task 7a
Implement the convolutional interleaving and
deinterleaving using a sequence of consecutive integers

• Ramp, in the Simulink Sources library

• Zero-Order Hold, in the Simulink Discrete library

• Convolutional Interleaver –
Set Rows of shift registers to 3 ,- Set Initial conditions to [-1 -2 -3].

• Convolutional Deinterleaver
• - Set Rows of shift registers to 3 , Set Initial conditions to [-1 -2 -3].
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 Lab task 7a continue
• Save the two copies of To Workspace with Variable name to
interleaved and restored, respectively.

• Set Save format to Array in each of the two copies of this block.

• Now set Stop time to 20. Run the simulation, then execute the
following command.

comparison = [[0:20]', interleaved, restored]

• In this output, the first column contains the original symbol

sequence. The second column contains the interleaved sequence,
while the third column contains the restored sequence.

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 Lab Task 7b
• What is the difference between the first and
last column of the comparison matrix in
Lab task 6a do you see the original data ?

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