wlanVHTSIGARecover

R2026b

(To be removed) Recover bits from VHT-SIG-A field

wlanVHTSIGARecover will be removed in a future release. Use wlanVHTDemodulate, wlanVHTTrackPilotError, wlanVHTEqualize, and wlanVHTSIGABitRecover instead. For more information on updating your code, see Version History. (since R2026a)

Syntax

recBits = wlanVHTSIGARecover(rxSig,chanEst,nVar,cbw)

[recBits,failCRC] = wlanVHTSIGARecover(___)

[recBits,failCRC,eqSym] = wlanVHTSIGARecover(___)

[recBits,failCRC,eqSym,cpe] = wlanVHTSIGARecover(___)

recBits = wlanVHTSIGARecover(rxSig,chanEst,nVar,cbw,Name=Value)

Description

recBits = wlanVHTSIGARecover(rxSig,chanEst,nVar,cbw) returns the recovered information bits from the VHT-SIG-A field. Inputs include the received VHT-SIG-A field, the channel estimate, the noise variance estimate, and the channel bandwidth.

[recBits,failCRC] = wlanVHTSIGARecover(___) returns the failure status of the CRC check, failCRC, using the arguments from previous syntaxes.

[recBits,failCRC,eqSym] = wlanVHTSIGARecover(___) returns the equalized symbols, eqSym.

[recBits,failCRC,eqSym,cpe] = wlanVHTSIGARecover(___) returns the common phase error, cpe.

recBits = wlanVHTSIGARecover(rxSig,chanEst,nVar,cbw,Name=Value) specifies algorithm parameters by using one or more name-value arguments in addition to any combination of input or output arguments from the previous syntaxes.

Examples

Recover VHT-SIG-A Information Bits

Create a wlanVHTConfig object with a channel bandwidth of 80 MHz. Generate L-LTF and VHT-SIG-A field signals using this object.

cfg = wlanVHTConfig('ChannelBandwidth','CBW80');
txLLTF = wlanLLTF(cfg);
[txVHTSIGA, txBits] = wlanVHTSIGA(cfg);
chanBW = cfg.ChannelBandwidth;
nVar = 0.1;

Pass the L-LTF and VHT-SIG-A signals through a 1x2 quasi-static fading channel with AWGN.

H = 1/sqrt(2)*complex(randn(1,2),randn(1,2));
rxLLTF    = awgn(txLLTF*H,10);
rxVHTSIGA = awgn(txVHTSIGA*H,10);

Perform channel estimation based on the L-LTF.

demodLLTF = wlanLLTFDemodulate(rxLLTF,chanBW,1);
chanEst = wlanLLTFChannelEstimate(demodLLTF,chanBW);

Recover the VHT-SIG-A. Verify that the CRC check was successful.

[rxBits,failCRC] = wlanVHTSIGARecover(rxVHTSIGA,chanEst,nVar,'CBW80');
failCRC

failCRC = logical
   0

The CRC failure check returns a 0, indicating that the CRC passed.

Compare the transmitted bits to the received bits. Confirm that the reported CRC result is correct because the output matches the input.

isequal(txBits,rxBits)

ans = logical
   1

Input Arguments

rxSig — Received VHT-SIG-A field

matrix

Received VHT-SIG-A field, specified as an N_S-by-N_R matrix. N_S is the number of samples and increases with channel bandwidth.

Channel Bandwidth	NS
'CBW20'	160
'CBW40'	320
'CBW80'	640
'CBW160'	1280

N_R is the number of receive antennas.

Data Types: double | single
Complex Number Support: Yes

chanEst — Channel estimate

3-D array

Channel estimate, specified as an N_ST-by-1-by-N_R array. N_ST is the number of occupied subcarriers and increases with channel bandwidth.

Channel Bandwidth	NST
'CBW20'	52
'CBW40'	104
'CBW80'	208
'CBW160'	416

N_R is the number of receive antennas.

The channel estimate is based on the L-LTF.

Data Types: double | single
Complex Number Support: Yes

nVar — Noise variance estimate

nonnegative scalar

Noise variance estimate, specified as a nonnegative scalar.

Data Types: double | single

cbw — Channel bandwidth

'CBW20' | 'CBW40' | 'CBW80' | 'CBW160'

Channel bandwidth in MHz, specified as 'CBW20', 'CBW40', 'CBW80', or 'CBW160'.

Data Types: char | string

Name-Value Arguments

Specify optional pairs of arguments as Name1=Value1,...,NameN=ValueN, where Name is the argument name and Value is the corresponding value. Name-value arguments must appear after other arguments, but the order of the pairs does not matter.

Example: PilotPhaseTracking='None' disables pilot phase tracking.

OFDMSymbolOffset — OFDM symbol sampling offset

0.75 (default) | scalar in the interval [0, 1]

OFDM symbol sampling offset represented as a fraction of the cyclic prefix (CP) length, specified as the name-value argument consisting of OFDMSymbolOffset and a scalar in the interval [0, 1]. The value you specify indicates the start location for OFDM demodulation relative to the beginning of the CP. The value 0 represents the start of the CP, and the value 1 represents the end of the CP.

Data Types: double

EqualizationMethod — Equalization method

"MMSE" (default) | "ZF"

Equalization method, specified as one of these values.

• "MMSE" — The receiver uses a minimum mean-square error equalizer.

• "ZF" — The receiver uses a zero-forcing equalizer.

When the received signal has multiple receive antennas, the function exploits receiver diversity during equalization. When the number of transmitted space-time streams is one and you specify this argument as "ZF", the function performs maximal-ratio combining.

Data Types: char | string

PilotPhaseTracking — Pilot phase tracking

"PreEQ" (default) | "None"

Pilot phase tracking, specified as one of these values.

• "PreEQ" — Enable pilot phase tracking, which the function performs before any equalization operation.

• "None" — Disable pilot phase tracking.

Data Types: char | string

Output Arguments

recBits — Recovered VHT-SIG-A information bits

column vector

Recovered VHT-SIG-A information bits, returned as a 48-by-1 column vector. See VHT-SIG-A for more information.

failCRC — CRC failure check

true | false

CRC failure check, returned as true if the CRC check fails or false if the CRC check passes.

eqSym — Equalized symbols

matrix

Equalized symbols at the data carrying subcarriers, returned as 48-by-2 matrix. Each 20 MHz channel bandwidth segment has two symbols and 48 data carrying subcarriers. These segments are combined into a single 48-by-2 matrix that comprises the VHT-SIG-A field.

cpe — Common phase error

column vector

Common phase error in radians, returned as a 2-by-1 column vector.

More About

VHT-SIG-A

The very high throughput signal A (VHT-SIG-A) field consists of two symbols: VHT-SIG-A1 and VHT-SIG-A2. The VHT-SIG-A field carries information required to interpret VHT PPDU information. These diagrams¹ show the structures of the VHT-SIG-A symbols.

For VHT-SIG-A field bit details, refer to IEEE Std 802.11ac™-2013 [1], Table 22-12.

L-LTF

The L-LTF is the second field in the 802.11™ OFDM PLCP legacy preamble. The L-LTF is a component of EHT, HE, VHT, HT, and non-HT PPDUs. This diagram² shows the L-LTF in the legacy preamble.

Channel estimation, fine frequency offset estimation, and fine symbol timing offset estimation rely on the L-LTF.

The L-LTF consists of a cyclic prefix (CP) followed by two identical long training symbols (C1 and C2). The CP consists of the second half of the long training symbol.

The L-LTF duration varies with channel bandwidth.

Channel Bandwidth (MHz)	Subcarrier Frequency Spacing ΔF (kHz)	Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) Period (TFFT = 1 / ΔF)	Cyclic Prefix or Training Symbol Guard Interval (GI2) Duration (TGI2 = TFFT / 2)	L-LTF Duration (TLONG = TGI2 + 2 × TFFT)
20, 40, 80, 160, and 320	312.5	3.2 μs	1.6 μs	8 μs
10	156.25	6.4 μs	3.2 μs	16 μs
5	78.125	12.8 μs	6.4 μs	32 μs

PPDU

PLCP protocol data unit

The PPDU is the complete PLCP frame, including PLCP headers, MAC headers, the MAC data field, and the MAC and PLCP trailers.

Algorithms

VHT-SIG-A Recovery

The VHT-SIG-A field consists of two symbols and resides between the L-SIG field and the VHT-STF portion of the packet structure for the VHT format PPDU. This diagram ³ shows the PPDU.

For single-user packets, you can recover the length information from the L-SIG and VHT-SIG-A field information. Therefore, it is not strictly required for the receiver to decode the VHT-SIG-A field.

For VHT-SIG-A details, refer to IEEE Std 802.11ac-2013 [1], Section 22.3.4.5, and Perahia [2], Section 7.3.2.1.

References

[1] IEEE Std 802.11ac™-2013 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 4: Enhancements for Very High Throughput for Operation in Bands below 6 GHz.

[2] Perahia, E., and R. Stacey. Next Generation Wireless LANs: 802.11n and 802.11ac . 2nd Edition, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Extended Capabilities

C/C++ Code Generation
Generate C and C++ code using MATLAB® Coder™.

Version History

Introduced in R2015b

R2026a: To be removed

wlanVHTSIGARecover will be removed in a future release. Use wlanVHTDemodulate, wlanVHTTrackPilotError, wlanVHTEqualize, and wlanVHTSIGABitRecover instead. See the Update Code for VHT Reception topic for more information.

R2024a: Single precision support

This function supports single-precision values for its numeric input arguments.