UNIVERSITI TEKNIKAL MALAYSIA MELAKA
Fakulti Kejuruteraan Elektronik & Kejuruteraan
Komputer
BENG4711 – ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING LAB 5
LAB 4: PERFORMANCE OF WIRELESS DIGITAL
COMMUNICATION SYSTEM CORRUPTED BY NOISE
LAB 4: PERFORMANCE OF WIRELESS DIGITAL
COMMUNICATION SYSTEM CORRUPTED BY NOISE
Learning Outcome:
1. To measure the performance of wireless digital communication system when
it is corrupted by noise and/or Intersymbol Interference (ISI).
Theory:
In either wired or wireless communication systems, the waveform present at the
receiver (user) is unknown until after it is received otherwise, no information
would be transmitted and there would be no need for the communication system.
More information is communicated to the receiver when the user is “more surprised”
by the message that was transmitted. That is, the transmission of information implied
the communication of messages that are not known ahead of time (a priori).
Noise limits our ability to communicate. If there were no noise, we could
communicate messages electronically to the outer limits of the universe by using an
infinitely small amount of power. This has been intuitively obvious since the early
days of radio. However, the theory that describes noise and the effect of noise on the
transmission was not developed until the 1940s, by such persons as D. O. North
[1943], S. O. Rice [1944], C.E. Shannon [1948] and N. Wiener [1949].
The two primary considerations in the design of a communication system are as
follows:
1. The performance of the system when it is corrupted by noise. The performance
measure for a digital system is the probability of error of the output signal. For
analog systems, the performance measure is the output signal-to-noise ratio.
2. The channel bandwidth that is required for transmission of the communication
signal.
There are numerous ways in which the information can be demodulated (recovered)
from the received signal that has been corrupted by noise. Some receivers provide
optimum performance, but most do not. Often a suboptimum receiver will be used in
order to lower the cost. In addition, some suboptimum receivers perform almost as
well as optimum ones for all practical purposes.
Figure 1. General binary communication system.
Figure 1 shows a general block diagram for a binary communication system. The
receiver input r(t) consists of the transmitted signal s(t) plus channel noise n(t). for
baseband signaling, the processing circuits in the receiver consist of low-pass filtering
with appropriate amplification. For bandpass signaling, such as OOK, BPSK and FSK,
the processing circuits normally consist of a superheterodyne receiver containing a mixer,
an IF amplifier and a detector. These circuits produce a baseband signaling analog output
r0(t).
The analog baseband waveform r0(t) is sampled at the clocking time t = t0 + nT to
produce the samples r0(t0 + nT), which are fed into a threshold device (a comparator).
The threshold device produces the binary serial-data waveform m(t).
PRE-LAB
a) Develop the following Matlab function M-files:
i. Main file which describes the transmitter and receiver of a digital
communication system that implements Amplitude Shift Keying (ASK)
signal in the presence of noise and Intersymbol Interference (ISI). This file
will measure the transceiver’s performance in terms of the theoretical BER
and also the simulated BER. The main specifications for the main file are
as follows:
(a) Bit rate
(b) Sampling frequency
(c) Voltage amplitude
(d) Number of bits in a packet
ii. Generate random sequence at the transmitter.
iii. Conversion into binary sequence at the transmitter.
iv. Q-function calculations.
v. Binary sequence detection at the receiver.
INSTRUCTIONS
a) Based on the pre-lab that you have done, run the simulation and tabulate the
values of the following parameters:
i) Bit error
ii) Packet error
iii) Number of bits
iv) BER (simulated)
v) BER (theoretical)
vi) PER (simulated)
vii) SNR (dB)
b) Investigate what will happen to the output performance of the transceiver, as in
(a), by varying the following parameters:
i) voltage amplitude = 2, 3, 4 and 5 volts
ii) sampling frequency = 12, 16, 20 and 24 Hz.
iii) bit rate = 2, 3, 4 and 5 bits/sec.
c) i) Plot a graph of BER against each of the varying parameters in part (b)
above.
ii) Plot BER against SNR (dB) graphs for each of the varying parameters in
part (b).
d) Analyse the results in (c).
