Source code for sionna.phy.channel.ofdm_channel

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"""
Block for implementing an ideal OFDM channel response, i.e., single-tap
channel response in the frequency domain
"""

import tensorflow as tf
from sionna.phy import Block
from . import GenerateOFDMChannel, ApplyOFDMChannel

[docs] class OFDMChannel(Block): # pylint: disable=line-too-long r""" Generate channel frequency responses and apply them to channel inputs assuming an OFDM waveform with no ICI nor ISI For each OFDM symbol :math:`s` and subcarrier :math:`n`, the channel output is computed as follows: .. math:: y_{s,n} = \widehat{h}_{s, n} x_{s,n} + w_{s,n} where :math:`y_{s,n}` is the channel output computed by this layer, :math:`\widehat{h}_{s, n}` the frequency channel response, :math:`x_{s,n}` the channel input ``x``, and :math:`w_{s,n}` the additive noise. For multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) links, the channel output is computed for each antenna of each receiver and by summing over all the antennas of all transmitters. The channel frequency response for the :math:`s^{th}` OFDM symbol and :math:`n^{th}` subcarrier is computed from a given channel impulse response :math:`(a_{m}(t), \tau_{m}), 0 \leq m \leq M-1` generated by the ``channel_model`` as follows: .. math:: \widehat{h}_{s, n} = \sum_{m=0}^{M-1} a_{m}(s) e^{-j2\pi n \Delta_f \tau_{m}} where :math:`\Delta_f` is the subcarrier spacing, and :math:`s` is used as time step to indicate that the channel impulse response can change from one OFDM symbol to the next in the event of mobility, even if it is assumed static over the duration of an OFDM symbol. Parameters ---------- channel_model : :class:`~sionna.phy.channel.ChannelModel` Used channel model resource_grid : :class:`~sionna.phy.ofdm.ResourceGrid` Resource grid normalize_channel : `bool`, (default `False`) If set to `True`, the channel is normalized over the resource grid to ensure unit average energy per resource element. return_channel : `bool`, (default `False`) If set to `True`, the channel response is returned in addition to the channel output. precision : `None` (default) | "single" | "double" Precision used for internal calculations and outputs. If set to `None`, :attr:`~sionna.phy.config.Config.precision` is used. Input ----- x : [batch size, num_tx, num_tx_ant, num_ofdm_symbols, fft_size], `tf.complex` Channel inputs no : `None` (default) | tensor, `tf.float` Tensor whose shape can be broadcast to the shape of the channel outputs: [batch size, num_rx, num_rx_ant, num_ofdm_symbols, fft_size]. The (optional) noise power ``no`` is per complex dimension. If ``no`` is a scalar, noise of the same variance will be added to the outputs. If ``no`` is a tensor, it must have a shape that can be broadcast to the shape of the channel outputs. This allows, e.g., adding noise of different variance to each example in a batch. If ``no`` has a lower rank than the channel outputs, then ``no`` will be broadcast to the shape of the channel outputs by adding dummy dimensions after the last axis. Output ------- y : [batch size, num_rx, num_rx_ant, num_ofdm_symbols, fft_size], `tf.complex` Channel outputs h_freq : [batch size, num_rx, num_rx_ant, num_tx, num_tx_ant, num_ofdm_symbols, fft_size], `tf.complex` (Optional) Channel frequency responses. Returned only if ``return_channel`` is set to `True`. """ def __init__(self, channel_model, resource_grid, normalize_channel=False, return_channel=False, precision=None, **kwargs): super().__init__(precision=precision, **kwargs) self._cir_sampler = channel_model self._rg = resource_grid self._normalize_channel = normalize_channel self._return_channel = return_channel self._generate_channel = GenerateOFDMChannel(self._cir_sampler, self._rg, self._normalize_channel, self.precision) self._apply_channel = ApplyOFDMChannel(self.precision) def call(self, x, no=None): h_freq = self._generate_channel(tf.shape(x)[0]) y = self._apply_channel(x, h_freq, no) if self._return_channel: return y, h_freq else: return y