Hi Johannes,

I'm back at work after the new year break and have had a chance to try this
again, and I think I have it working !!
The problem was with my test waveform, I've captured a new test waveform
and I can now sync to the DL signal and decode the MIB.

Mike



On 21 December 2013 04:26, Johannes Demel <johannes.de...@ettus.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> regarding the different parameters. 'tx_diversity' should always be left
> as it is. In case of a 1x1 MIMO configuration it will just have no effect.
> This parameter reflects the LTE standard with its two options
> 'tx_diversity' and 'spatial_multiplexing'. The latter isn't used for
> control channels.
> In order to specify a certain bandwidth, use the parameter 'N_rb_dl',
> which specifies the number of resource blocks used. This will also set the
> bandwidth as this is the unit given by the system to determine the
> bandwidth. e.g. have a look at the paper which is included in the project
> there is a table which shows the dependencies.
> 25 RBs --> 25*12 = 300 subcarrier --> 15kHz * 300 + spacing = 5MHz.
> The FFT length can be chosen freely as long as it provides sufficient bins
> to match the current number of subcarriers. It will be used to determine
> the input sample rate. I suggest you stick with power of 2 values. Those
> are the only ones I tested and the numbers the system is designed for. One
> more thing, a FFT length shorter than 256 results in fractional CP lengths,
> which should be avoided. LTE's CP use is already quite tricky and the
> introduction of fractional CP lengths will not ease the situation.
> PBCH decoding is handled for one and two antenna configurations, so you
> don't have to worry about configuring the flowgraph there.
> PCFICH decoding will receive a message on runtime which sets the decoded
> antenna configuration.
>
> Happy hacking
> Johannes
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 2:39 AM, Baier <ba...@irt.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi Johannes,
>>
>> thank you very much for updating your gr-lte package. I could compiled
>> all .grc files succesfully. Now I would like to test your receiver with a
>> LTE signal saved to a file with the following settings.( 5 MHz, RB 25, fft
>> 512, occupied carriers 300, no tx diversity). So I have started to change
>> the parameters in your grc files.
>> RB 25 instead 50
>> fftlen 512 instead 2048(is it right?)
>> occupied carriers 300 instead 600.
>> So I have realized the files decode_pcfich_37.grc and decode_pbch_37 .grc
>> are designed for tx_diversity with two antennas. How can I change it?
>> Removing the blocks for the second antenna perhaps?
>> Thank you very much.
>> A. Baier
>>
>>
>>
>>
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