PHY layer simulation of a directional, multi-gigabit wireless system
All simulations are written in MATLAB2019b, and require the DSP and Comms Toolboxes.
To simulate the standard over an AWGN channel, please see wls.m
In that file, you can specify a modulation and coding scheme, the amount of data, the number of frames and the range of SNR values to compute bit error rates for. Note that the simulations take a significant amount of time. Lower MCSs indicies can take an extremely long time (>12 hours). Higher order MCSs take less time to simulate (~1-2 hours). In particular, MCS 1 takes an extremely long time to run due to the repetition used in the LDPC codes. After running simulations, or a set of simulations, save the .mat file containing the BER and use the plot_ber.m script in the results folder to generate waterfall curves.
You can find my full report on IEEE802.11ad . You can also see the waterfall curves and
.mat files in the results directory.
[1] 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 3: Enhancements for Very High Throughput in the 60 GHz Band," in IEEE Std 802.11ad-2012 (Amendment to IEEE Std 802.11-2012, as amended by IEEE Std 802.11ae-2012 and IEEE Std 802.11aa-2012) , vol., no., pp.1-628, 28 Dec. 2012