Installation

  Required Products

  Expected Background

  Configure the Simulink Environment for Communications Models

  Demos in the Help Browser

  Demos on the Web

  Demos on MATLAB Central

• Compute BER for a QAM System with AWGN and Phase Noise Using Simulink

  Opening the Model

  Overview of the Model

  Quadrature Amplitude Modulation

  Run a Simulation

  Display the Error Rate

  Set Block Parameters

  Display a Phase Noise Plot

  More Demos

  Section Overview

  Modulate a Random Signal

  Plot Signal Constellations

  Pulse Shaping Using a Raised Cosine Filter

  Use a Convolutional Code

• Create System Objects

  Define a New System Object

  Change a System Object Property

  Run a System Object

  Display Available System Objects

  Create a New System Object

  Retrieve System Object Property Values

  Set System Object Property Values

  What are System Object Methods?

  The Step Method

  Common Methods

  Advantages of Using Methods

  Understand System Object Modes

  Change Properties While Running System Objects

  Change System Object Input Complexity or Dimensions

  Considerations for Using System Objects in Generated Code

  Use System Objects with codegen

  Use System Objects with the MATLAB Function Block

  Use System Objects with MATLAB Compiler

  Section Overview

  AWGN Channel Noise Level

  Overview of Fading Channels

  Methodology for Simulating Multipath Fading Channels:

  Specify Fading Channels

  Specify the Doppler Spectrum of a Fading Channel

  Configure Channel Objects

  Use Fading Channels

  Rayleigh Fading Channel

  Rician Fading Channel

  Additional Examples Using Fading Channels

  Illustrate RF Impairments That Distort a Signal

  Phase/Frequency Offsets and Phase Noise

  Receiver Thermal Noise and Free Space Path Loss

  Nonlinearity and I/Q Imbalance

  Apply a Nonlinear Distortion to the Input Signal

  Simulate RF Impairments to a DQPSK Signal

  Selected Bibliography for Channel Modeling