Hi Matthias,
Thanks a lot for your suggestions.
The thing is, one transmitter (jammer) is sending packets nonstop at a
constant transmit power, while the second transmitter (sender) sends a
packet every millisecond or so.
In this scenario, the receiver is always synchronized with the jammer
and even if the signal from the sender is stronger, the receiver only
decodes a fraction of the packets from the sender (around 1%). This
sounds reasonable as the receiver locks itself to the signal from the
jammer when nothing else is around and stays locked (remains decoding
the incoming signal) even if a stronger signal from the sender arives.
(Only between the jammers packets, when the receiver looks for new
preambles, there's a chance for the receiver to sync with the sender
instead of the jammer.)
But at some point, when the signal from the sender is significantly
stronger (around 7-10db), the behavior changes and all the packets
from sender 2 get decoded.
Now it surprised me that this happend at all, that the packet delivery
rate from sender to receiver increased at some point instead of only
relying on the timings of preamble and sfd of sender and jammer.
That's why I'm looking for any phase lock loops and control mechanisms
related to the capture effect.
Any suggestions?
best regards and thanks again for your time
B
Zitat von "Matthias Wilhelm" <wilh...@informatik.uni-kl.de>:
Hi Bjoern,
the receiver uses FM demodulation to track phase changes, and when
two signals collide the stronger one simply has the larger influence
on the overall phase. This is actually a good property, because you
still have the chance to receive one of the colliding packets.
Do you want to go on receiving the weaker packet? This may be quite
tricky, because you cannot just separate the signals. One way I can
think is successive interference cancelation, first receive the
stronger packet, and subtract its signal and start receiving the
weaker one. There is a ("CS-style") paper on this:
Daniel Halperin, Thomas Anderson, and David Wetherall. 2008. Taking
the sting out of carrier sense: interference cancellation for
wireless LANs. In Proceedings of the 14th ACM international
conference on Mobile computing and networking (MobiCom '08). ACM,
New York, NY, USA, 339-350. DOI=10.1145/1409944.1409983
http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1409944.1409983
Regards,
Matthias
Am 22.02.2012 um 11:42 schrieb bjoe...@ee.ethz.ch:
Hi everyone,
First of all thanks a lot for any support!
I'm use the UCLA zigbee PHY (IEEE 802.15.4) on three nodes, of
which one is a dedicated receiver and the other two nodes are
transmitting simultaneously (No CSMA!).
I noticed that something like a capture effect is taking place,
meaning that even though the signal is synchronized to a weaker
signal (signal 1), the receiver appears to jump to the stronger
signal (signal 2) as soon as it arrives at the receiver (if the
second signal is significantly stronger then the first one).
I would like to influence this behavior, and hence am looking for
the related parameters. I just can't find them! Does anyone have a
clue where this is happening?
I am using the XCVR2450 Daughterboard together with the USRP1.
Any hints, suggestions or detailed help will be highly appreciated!
best regards and thanks a lot,
B
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