Waveform Generation

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This example shows how to generate standards-compliant WLAN waveforms. The IEEE® 802.11™ standards define a physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) as the transmission unit at the physical layer. For a detailed description of the PPDU field structures for each transmission format, see WLAN PPDU Structure.

Generate WLAN Waveforms

Generate EHT MU Waveform

Specify information bits to transmit.

bits = [1 0 0 1 1];

Parameterize the transmission by creating an extremely high-throughput multi-user (EHT MU) configuration object with a channel bandwidth of 320 MHz.

cfgEHTMU = wlanEHTMUConfig("CBW320");

Specify an oversampling factor for fast-Fourier-transform-based oversampling.

osf = 2;

Generate an EHT MU waveform, as defined in [1], for the specified bits and transmission parameters. The waveform comprises four packets with 15 microseconds of idle time between them.

waveformEHTMU = wlanWaveformGenerator(bits,cfgEHTMU, ...
    NumPackets=4,IdleTime=15e-6, ...
    OversamplingFactor=osf);

Plot the EHT MU waveform, scaling the x-axis relative to the channel bandwidth.

fsEHTMU = wlanSampleRate(cfgEHTMU.ChannelBandwidth);
time = (0:length(waveformEHTMU)-1)/fsEHTMU;
plot(time,abs(waveformEHTMU))
xlabel ("Time (seconds)")
ylabel("Magnitude")

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Generate HE MU Waveform

Parameterize the transmission by creating an HE multi-user (HE MU) configuration object.

cfgHEMU = wlanHEMUConfig(192);

Generate an HE MU waveform, as defined in [2], comprising three packets with 30 microseconds of idle time between packets for the specified bits and transmission parameters.

waveformHEMU = wlanWaveformGenerator(bits,cfgHEMU, ...
    NumPackets=3,IdleTime=30e-6);

Plot the HE MU waveform, scaling the x-axis relative to the channel bandwidth.

fsHEMU = wlanSampleRate(cfgHEMU.ChannelBandwidth);
time = (0:length(waveformHEMU)-1)/fsHEMU;
plot(time,abs(waveformHEMU))
xlabel ("Time (seconds)")
ylabel("Magnitude")

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Generate WUR Waveform

Parameterize the transmission by creating a wake-up radio (WUR) configuration object.

cfgWUR = wlanWURConfig(ChannelBandwidth="CBW40",NumUsers=2);

Generate a single-packet WUR waveform, as defined in [3], for the specified bits and transmission parameters.

waveformWUR = wlanWaveformGenerator(bits,cfgWUR);

Plot the WUR waveform, scaling the x-axis relative to the channel bandwidth.

fsWUR = wlanSampleRate(cfgWUR.ChannelBandwidth);
time = (0:length(waveformWUR)-1)/fsWUR;
plot(time,abs(waveformWUR))
xlabel ("Time (seconds)")
ylabel("Magnitude")

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Generate VHT Waveform

Parameterize the transmission by creating a VHT configuration object with default property values.

cfgVHT = wlanVHTConfig;

Generate a VHT waveform, as defined in [4], for the specified bits and transmission parameters. The waveform comprises five packets with 20 microseconds of idle time between them.

waveformVHT = wlanWaveformGenerator(bits,cfgVHT, ...
    NumPackets=5,IdleTime=20e-6);

Plot the VHT waveform, scaling the x-axis relative to the channel bandwidth.

fsVHT = wlanSampleRate(cfgVHT.ChannelBandwidth);
time = (0:length(waveformVHT)-1)/fsVHT;
plot(time,abs(waveformVHT))
xlabel ('Time (seconds)')
ylabel('Magnitude')

Figure contains an axes object. The axes object with xlabel Time (seconds), ylabel Magnitude contains an object of type line.

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References

[1] IEEE® Std 802.11be™-2024 “IEEE Standard for Information Technology — Telecommunications and Information Exchange between Systems — Local and Metropolitan Area Networks — Specific Requirements — Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications. Amendment 2: Enhancements for Extremely High Throughput (EHT).” https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11090080

[2] IEEE Std 802.11ax™-2021 (Amendment to IEEE Std 802.11™-2020). “Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications. Amendment 1: Enhancements for High Efficiency WLAN.” IEEE Standard for Information Technology — Telecommunications and Information Exchange between Systems. Local and Metropolitan Area Networks — Specific Requirements.

[3] IEEE Std 802.11ba™-2021. “Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications. Amendment 3: Wake-Up Radio Operation.” IEEE Standard for Information Technology — Telecommunications and Information Exchange between Systems. Local and Metropolitan Area Networks — Specific Requirements.

[4] IEEE Std 802.11-2020 (Revision of IEEE Std 802.11-2016). “Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications.” IEEE Standard for Information Technology — Telecommunications and Information Exchange between Systems — Local and Metropolitan Area Networks — Specific Requirements.