Wireless Communications Basic Labs

Exercise 1: Matlab Commands

Open Matlab and try to understand the following Matlab functions (you can use Matlab help function
or online help)
Using command prompt: >>help <command name>
OR
GUI: Click Help tab and then select Product help from drop-down menu. Write the command in upper
left search space and ENTER.
1) randn
2) repmat
3) length
4) size
5) sqrt
6) plot
7) semilogy
8) abs
9) sum
10) mean
11) subplot
12) scatterplot
13) hist









Exercise 2: Basic Operation : As a calculator
At command prompt
>>2+2
ans =
4

>>sin(pi/2)
ans=
1

>>log10(100)
ans=
2

>>sqrt(16)
ans=
4

>>log2(6)
ans=
2.5850





Exercise 3: Assignment and variables
One can also assign values to variables and then do operations with these variables. For instance;
>> x = 2;
>>y = x2
y =
4
>> x = pi;
>>y = sin(x)
y =
0

Notice here that when a semicolon is placed at the end of a command, output is suppressed (i.e. its not
printed to the screen).













Exercise 4: Array and Matrix Creation
To create an array with four elements in a single row, separate the elements
with either a comma (,) or a space.
a = [1 2 3 4]
Enter
a =
1 2 3 4
This type of array is a row vector.
To create a matrix that has multiple rows, separate the rows with semicolons.
a = [1 2 3; 4 5 6; 7 8 10]
a =
1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8 10

Matrices and Arrays
Another way to create a matrix is to use a function, such as ones, zeros, or
rand. For example, create a 5-by-1 column vector of zeros.
z = zeros(5,1)
z =
0
0
0
0
0
Matrix and Array Operations
MATLAB allows you to process all of the values in a matrix using a single
arithmetic operator or function.
a + 10
ans =
11 12 13
14 15 16
17 18 20
sin(a)
ans =
0.8415 0.9093 0.1411
-0.7568 -0.9589 -0.2794
0.6570 0.9894 -0.5440
To transpose a matrix, use a single quote ('):
a'
ans =
1 4 7
2 5 8










Example : Matlab code in m-file
Open a new m-file. Copy-paste below code. Click green run button. If a windows pop up click add
path tab.

,
0
2
b
e BPSK
E
P Q
N
| |
= |
|
\ .

Hint: Matlab does not have built-in function for Q-function. Instead we use it erf function as:
( ) 0.5 0.5
2
x
Q x erf
| |
=
|
\ .

Therefore

,
0
0.5 0.5* ,
2
2
e BPSK
b
x
P erf
where
E
x
N
| |
=
|
\ .
=

Code
function verifyFadingmodel()
EbN0dB = [0:2:20];
EbN0=10.^(EbN0dB/10);
x=sqrt(2*EbN0);
BER = 0.5-0.5*(erf(x/sqrt(2)));


semilogy(EbN0dB, BER, 'k-o','LineWidth',2);
grid;
title('Average BER for BPSK in Rayleigh fading')
legend('BPSK');
xlabel('Eb/No[dB]');
ylabel('BER');





Lab 1: Wrire matlab code for symbol error rate for QPSK. (5 marks)
Hint: Only change the Line 4 and 5 in above code.
Submit matlab code and graph in word file + hardcopy.











Lab 2: Plot the received power Pr with distance d=[1:1:100] in free
space. Carrier frequency fc=2.4GHz, Gt=Gr=1, transmit power
Pt=20dBm. (5 marks)
Submit Matlab code and graph in MS word file + hardcopy.

2
4
r t t r
P PG G
d

t
| |
=
|
\ .