Getting Started with WLAN Toolbox

WLAN Toolbox™ provides standard-compliant functions for the design, simulation, analysis, and testing of wireless LAN communications systems. The toolbox provides configurable physical layer waveforms for IEEE^® 802.11ax/ac/ad/ah and 802.11b/a/g/n/j/p standards. It also provides transmitter, channel modeling, and receiver operations, including channel coding, modulation (OFDM, DSSS, and CCK), spatial stream mapping, channel models (TGax, TGac, TGah, and TGn), and MIMO receivers.

You can generate multiple types of signals, including high-efficiency (HE), very high throughput (VHT), high throughput (HT-mixed), and legacy (non-HT), directional multi-gigabit (DMG), and sub 1 GHz (S1G). You can also perform signal measurements such as channel power, spectrum mask, and occupied bandwidth, and create test benches for the end-to-end simulation of WLAN communications links.

The toolbox provides reference designs to help you explore baseband specifications and study the effects of RF designs and interference sources on system performance. Using WLAN Toolbox with RF instruments or hardware support packages, you can connect your transmitter and receiver models to radio devices and verify your designs via over-the-air transmission and reception.

Tutorials

• Mapping 802.11 Standards to WLAN Toolbox Configuration Objects
  

  The mapping between 802.11™ standards, packet formats, and WLAN Toolbox functions is outlined here.

• Create Configuration Objects
  

  This section describes creation of configuration objects that are used to store the properties required to generate WLAN waveforms and to recover signal data.

• Waveform Generation
  

  Describes waveform generation for the various WLAN PPDU formats.

• WLAN Channel Models
  

  Using WLAN channel models to add channel impairments to WLAN transmissions.

• Packet Recovery
  

  Describes recovery of WLAN packets for various PPDU formats.

• 802.11 MAC Frame Generation
  

  This example shows how to generate IEEE® 802.11™ MAC frames.

About WLAN

• What Is WLAN?
  

  Describes WLAN for the benefit of the new user. Also indicates scope of coverage for WLAN Toolbox.

• WLAN Packet Structure
  

  Describes the WLAN packet structures you can model using WLAN Toolbox.

• WLAN Radio Frequency Channels
  

  Describes WLAN Radio Frequency Channels.