The following Matlab code runs only half of the for loop. Can anyone help me figure out the problem?

Here is the part of the matlab Code that I was working for an SDR development.

In the following code, when the ind in the for loop below exceeds four or more than

half fo the loop, it stops and gives me an error.

Can someone help me and let me know the reason why it happens in MATLAB.

// The code begins here.

NumFrames =10;

%% Build OFDM Modulator

FFTLength = 64;

NumGuardBandCarriers = [6; 5];

NumDataCarriers = 48;

CyclicPrefixLength = 16;

PilotCarrierIndices = [12;26;40;54];

NumOFDMSymInPreamble = 5;

NumBitsPerCharacter = 7;

SampleRate = 20e6;

Fs = SampleRate;

msgInBits = repmat(randi([0 1], NumDataCarriers, 1),10160, 1);

PayloadBits = msgInBits(:);

MSDU = ceil(length(PayloadBits)/(NumFrames*NumDataCarriers));

txData = zeros(0,1);

for ind = 0 : (NumFrames-1)

framebody = PayloadBits((ind*MSDU*NumDataCarriers)+1:(NumDataCarriers*MSDU)*(ind+1),:);

txData = [txData; framebody];

PayloadBits((ind*MSDU*NumDataCarriers)+1:(NumDataCarriers*MSDU)*(ind+1),:)=[];

if(ind == 4) // When Ind exceeds more than half the loop, it creates error message.

return

end

end

[Steven Lord]

What is the full and exact text of the error message you receive? Show all the text displayed in red and/or orange when you receive the error.

Answer 1

[Tommy]

PayloadBits((ind*MSDU*NumDataCarriers)+1:(NumDataCarriers*MSDU)*(ind+1),:)=[];

This line changes the size of PayloadBits, but you have set up MSDU, NumDataCarriers, and ind based on the initial size of PayloadBits. Will it work if you omit this line? i.e.

for ind = 0 : (NumFrames-1)
    framebody = PayloadBits((ind*MSDU*NumDataCarriers)+1:(NumDataCarriers*MSDU)*(ind+1),:);
    txData = [txData; framebody];
end

[jarul]

Yes! I removed the line that you mentioned above. However, running the loop that you have mentioned runs till the last element. But, the last element index exceeds the limit and can not complete the array. Basically it runs n-1 array element only.

I do not know why?

[jarul]

Hai I got the result. Thanks.

The problem is PayloadBIts adds some padded bits to make the array equal size. Hence, after adding the padded extra bits in the image file. It works correctly. Here is the snippet of the code that works correctly.

I am working on Schmidl Cox algorithm for the Multi-SDR. Thanks for your valuable feedback.

% Calculate number of OFDM symbols per frame

%NumOFDMSymbols = ceil(length(PayloadBits)/(NumDataCarriers));

NumOFDMSymbols = ceil(length(PayloadBits)/(NumDataCarriers*NumFrames));

% Calculate number of bits padded in each frame

NumPadBits = (NumOFDMSymbols*NumDataCarriers*NumFrames) - length(PayloadBits);

PayloadBits(numel(PayloadBits)+NumPadBits)=0;

MSDU = ceil(length(PayloadBits)/(NumFrames*NumDataCarriers));

txData = zeros(0,1);

for ind = 0 : NumFrames-1

framebody = PayloadBits((ind*MSDU*NumDataCarriers)+1:(NumDataCarriers*MSDU)*(ind+1),:);

txData = [txData; framebody];

%PayloadBits((ind*MSDU*NumDataCarriers)+1:(NumDataCarriers*MSDU)*(ind+1),:)=[];

end