wlanHTSIG

Generate HT-SIG waveform

Syntax

y = wlanHTSIG(cfg)

[y,bits] = wlanHTSIG(cfg)

[___] = wlanHTSIG(cfg,OversamplingFactor=osf)

Description

y = wlanHTSIG(cfg) generates an HT-SIG¹ time-domain waveform for an HT-mixed transmission parameterized by cfg.

[y,bits] = wlanHTSIG(cfg) also returns the information bits that comprise the HT-SIG field.

[___] = wlanHTSIG(cfg,OversamplingFactor=osf) generates an oversampled HT-SIG waveform with the specified oversampling factor. For more information about oversampling, see FFT-Based Oversampling.

Examples

Generate HT-SIG Waveform

Generate an HT-SIG waveform for a single transmit antenna.

Create an HT configuration object. Specify a 40 MHz channel bandwidth.

cfg = wlanHTConfig;
cfg.ChannelBandwidth = 'CBW40'

cfg = 
  wlanHTConfig with properties:

       ChannelBandwidth: 'CBW40'
    NumTransmitAntennas: 1
    NumSpaceTimeStreams: 1
         SpatialMapping: 'Direct'
                    MCS: 0
          GuardInterval: 'Long'
          ChannelCoding: 'BCC'
             PSDULength: 1024
         AggregatedMPDU: 0
     RecommendSmoothing: 1

Generate the HT-SIG waveform. Determine the size of the waveform.

y = wlanHTSIG(cfg);
size(y)

ans = 1×2

   320     1

The function returns a waveform having a complex output of 320 samples corresponding to two 160-sample OFDM symbols.

Display MCS Information from HT-SIG

Generate an HT-SIG waveform and display the MCS information. Change the MCS and display the updated information.

Create a wlanHTConfig object having two spatial streams and two transmit antennas. Specify an MCS value of 8, corresponding to BPSK modulation and a coding rate of 1/2.

cfg = wlanHTConfig('NumSpaceTimeStreams',2,'NumTransmitAntennas',2,'MCS',8);

Generate the information bits from the HT-SIG waveform.

[~,sigBits] = wlanHTSIG(cfg);

Extract the MCS field from sigBits and convert it to its decimal equivalent. The MCS information is contained in bits 1-7.

mcsBits = sigBits(1:7);
bit2int(mcsBits,7,false)

ans = int8

8

The MCS matches the specified value.

Change the MCS to 13, which corresponds to 64-QAM modulation with a 2/3 coding rate. Generate the HT-SIG waveform.

cfg.MCS = 13;
[~,sigBits] = wlanHTSIG(cfg);

Verify that the MCS bits are the binary equivalent of 13.

mcsBits = sigBits(1:7);
bit2int(mcsBits,7,false)

ans = int8

13

Input Arguments

cfg — Transmission parameters

wlanHTConfig object

Transmission parameters, specified as a wlanHTConfig object.

osf — Oversampling factor

1 (default) | scalar greater than or equal to 1

Oversampling factor, specified as a scalar greater than or equal to 1. The oversampled cyclic prefix length must be an integer number of samples.

Data Types: single | double | int8 | int16 | int32 | int64 | uint8 | uint16 | uint32 | uint64

Output Arguments

y — HT-SIG waveform

matrix

HT-SIG waveform, returned as an N_S-by-N_T matrix. N_S is the number of time-domain samples, and N_T is the number of transmit antennas.

Data Types: double
Complex Number Support: Yes

bits — HT-SIG information bits

vector

HT-SIG information bits, returned as a 48-by-1 vector.

Data Types: int8

More About

HT-SIG

The high throughput signal (HT-SIG) field is located between the L-SIG field and HT-STF and is part of the HT-mixed format preamble. It is composed of two symbols, HT-SIG₁ and HT-SIG₂.

HT-SIG carries information used to decode the HT packet, including the MCS, packet length, FEC coding type, guard interval, number of extension spatial streams, and whether there is payload aggregation. The HT-SIG symbols are also used for auto-detection between HT-mixed format and legacy OFDM packets.

For a detailed description of the HT-SIG field, see section 19.3.9.4.3 of IEEE^® Std 802.11™-2020.

HT-mixed

As described in IEEE Std 802.11-2012, Section 20.1.4, high throughput mixed (HT-mixed) format packets contain a preamble compatible with IEEE Std 802.11-2012, Section 18 and Section 19 receivers. Non-HT (Section 18 and Section19) STAs can decode the non-HT fields (L-STF, L-LTF, and L-SIG). The remaining preamble fields (HT-SIG, HT-STF, and HT-LTF) are for HT transmission, so the Section 18 and Section 19 STAs cannot decode them. The HT portion of the packet is described in IEEE Std 802.11-2012, Section 20.3.9.4. Support for the HT-mixed format is mandatory.

Algorithms

FFT-Based Oversampling

An oversampled signal is a signal sampled at a frequency that is higher than the Nyquist rate. WLAN signals maximize occupied bandwidth by using small guardbands, which can pose problems for anti-imaging and anti-aliasing filters. Oversampling increases the guardband width relative to the total signal bandwidth, which increases the number of samples in the signal.

This function performs oversampling by using a larger IFFT and zero pad when generating an OFDM waveform. This diagram shows the oversampling process for an OFDM waveform with N_FFT subcarriers made up of N_g guardband subcarriers on either side of N_st occupied bandwidth subcarriers.

References

[1] IEEE Std 802.11™-2012 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.

Extended Capabilities

C/C++ Code Generation
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Version History

Introduced in R2015b