Perform a 256QAM demapping, as defined in IEEE® 802.11ac™-2013, Section 22.3.10.9.1.

Create the sequence of data bits.

bits = randi([0 1],416,1,'int8');

Perform the constellation mapping on the data bits by using a 256QAM modulation. The size of the output returned equals the size of the input sequence divided by eight.

numBPSCS = 8;
mappedData = wlanConstellationMap(bits,numBPSCS);
size(mappedData)

ans = 1×2

    52     1

Perform the 256QAM constellation demapping. Because the default demapping type is soft, the output is a vector of soft bits.

noiseVar = 0;
demappedData = wlanConstellationDemap(mappedData,noiseVar,numBPSCS);
size(demappedData)

ans = 1×2

   416     1

Perform a 256QAM demapping by using hard demodulation. The demapping is defined in IEEE® 802.11™-2012 Section 18.3.5.8

Create the sequence of data bits.

 bits = randi([0 1],416,1);

Perform the constellation mapping on the data bits by using a 256QAM constellation.

numBPSCS = 8;
mappedData = wlanConstellationMap(bits,numBPSCS);

Perform the hard 256QAM constellation demapping. Because it is a hard demapping, the estimated noise variance is ignored.

noiseVar = 0;
demapType = 'hard';
demappedData = wlanConstellationDemap(mappedData,noiseVar,numBPSCS,demapType);

Verify that the demapped data matches the original data.

isequal(bits,demappedData)

ans = logical
   1

BPSK and QBPSK demapping for different OFDM symbols for the VHT-SIG-A field by using a soft demodulation. The demapping is defined in IEEE® 802.11ac™-2013 Section 22.3.8.3.3

Create the sequence of data bits. Specify the two OFDM symbols in columns.

 bits = randi([0 1],48,2,'int8');

Perform constellation mapping on the data bits. Specify the size of the constellation rotation as the number in columns of the input sequence. The first column is mapped with a BPSK modulation. The second column is modulated with a QBPSK modulation.

numBPSCS = 1;
phase = [0 pi/2];
mappedData = wlanConstellationMap(bits,numBPSCS,phase);

Perform the constellation demapping with an estimated variance noise equal to zero (no added noise). To derotate the constellation, specify the same phase as in the mapping function. The output is a vector of soft bits ready to be the input of a convolutional decoder.

noiseVar = 0;
demappedData = wlanConstellationDemap(mappedData,noiseVar,numBPSCS,phase);

Verify that the demapped data matches the original data. Because no noise is present, you can recover the original data without errors by assigning the negative values to a logical 1 and the positive values to a logical 0. In other words, you can convert the soft bits into hard bits.

demappedBits = int8((demappedData<=0));
isequal(bits,demappedBits)

ans = logical
   1

Perform QBPSK demapping on a four-dimensional array by using hard demodulation.

Create the sequence of data bits as an array of four dimensions, with 416 coded bits per subcarrier per spatial stream per interleaver block, four OFDM symbols, two spatial streams, and two segments.

numCBPSSI = 416; 
numSym = 4;
numSS = 2;
numSeg = 2; 
bits = randi([0 1],numCBPSSI,numSym,numSS,numSeg);
size(bits)

ans = 1×4

   416     4     2     2

Perform QBPSK constellation mapping on the data bits with a rotation of $\frac{\pi }{2}$ radians.

numBPSCS = 1;
phase = pi/2;
mappedData = wlanConstellationMap(bits,numBPSCS,phase);
size(mappedData)

ans = 1×4

   416     4     2     2

Perform hard QBPSK constellation demapping. To de-rotate the constellation, specify the same phase as in the mapping function. Because it is a hard demapping, the estimated noise variance is ignored.

noiseVar = 0;
demapType = 'hard';
demappedData = wlanConstellationDemap(mappedData,noiseVar,numBPSCS,demapType);

Verify that the demapped data matches the original data.

isequal(bits,demappedData)

ans = logical
   1