Hi Muneeba, please stay on-list with your replies! So,
On 12.05.2016 12:48, Raja Muneeba wrote: > Thankyou for your answers. Im trying to solve this. I am now using fft > Sink at receiver to see the power(db) vs frequency plot. I turn off > the transmitter and see the power at fft, and consider it noise. Then > I turn on the transmitter and get the value at fft. I conside that > signal strength+noise. So (signal strength+noise)-noise=signal > strength. And SNR could be signal strength/noise. Am I going in the > right direction? I think so! You should start to model your noise. Is your noise model "white"? If it is, what does it say about the power of noise contained in different, equally wide bandwidths? > What is the power(db) on fft actually? Is it dbm? No, > If its db, then in comparison to what? Full scale! This is DSP, there's no physical units to the numbers you handle. So, if you feed in a constant 1 into your fft plot, you'll see a specific value. > > One more basic thing as I am extremely new to signal processing. What > frequency of signal source ,sampling rate and gain should I choose for > transmitting over centre frequency of 2.48GHZ. That doesn't have to do anything with each other: Sampling rate is just a number that the signal source uses together with the signal frequency to calculate how many *samples* long a full period will be – there's no "real world" time in this kind of DSP, just samples. So a signal source with f_sample=1 and f_signal = 0.2 will have exactly the same output as a signal source with f_sample = 5e6 and f_signal = 1e6. Now, you don't sample at 2.48GHz directly – your USRP is an upconverter that allows you to get complex baseband equivalent to what happens in a real passband at RF frequencies. The idea of complex baseband is very important here – GNU Radio has a suggested reading wiki page[1], but seeing that you're probably a student at the Aalto university, I'd just ask for the scriptum or recommended book of the basic digital communications lecture[2] in electrical engineering, and read up till you reach the baseband receiver. Such a lecture was where I learned those principles! So, now the sampling rate you chose for your USRP sink or source does have a real-world effect: it actually sets the rate at which samples are converted to/from analog values. And hence, the sampling rate you use with the hardware directly sets the Nyquist rate, and hence, your signals' bandwidth. > What would be the reason for choosing that. Right now I have 1M > sampling rate and 1k frequency of signal source. My USRP is N210 with > SBX daughter board. That are in any case values that the SBX and the N210 support. Best regards, Marcus > Can you suggest some documentation which can help me deciding these > factors? [1] http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/SuggestedReading [2] https://mycourses.aalto.fi/course/view.php?id=5109 > > From: Marcus Müller <marcus.muel...@ettus.com > <mailto:marcus.muel...@ettus.com>> > Date: Wednesday 11 May 2016 13:13 > To: Raja Muneeba <muneeba.r...@aalto.fi > <mailto:muneeba.r...@aalto.fi>>, "discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org > <mailto:discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org>" <discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org > <mailto:discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org>> > Subject: Estimating SNR (was: Re: query) > >> SNR is signal strength/noise > Yeah, obviously, but what does that mean? how can you *describe* > signal strength with a mathematical formula based on the digital > samples you have in GNU Radio? > > The point is that you'll just need an estimator for the signal energy, > and an estimator for the noise power. > > There's a lot of estimators for both; for a single tone, Welch's > method might be pretty usable. Another approach would be a narrow > filter, and a signal-to-magnitude-squared converter. > For noise power, you could just calculate the overall receive signal > power, and subtract the signal power estimate. > > Best regards, > Marcus > > On 11.05.2016 11:56, Raja Muneeba wrote: >> SNR is signal strength/noise >> >> From: Marcus Müller <marcus.muel...@ettus.com >> <mailto:marcus.muel...@ettus.com>> >> Date: Wednesday 11 May 2016 12:48 >> To: Raja Muneeba <muneeba.r...@aalto.fi>, "discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org >> <mailto:discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org>" <discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org >> <mailto:discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org>> >> Subject: Re: query >> >> Hi Muneeba, >> >> so the point is: What *is* SNR? Can you define it mathematically? >> >> Best regards, >> Marcus >> >> >> On 11.05.2016 11:47, Raja Muneeba wrote: >>>> HI, >>>> >>>> I am using usrp N210 with db SBX, and I do not have any message >>>> wave (or source file). I simply transmit and receive a sin wave via >>>> USRPs (find my graphs attached). I am not doing any modulation/de >>>> modulations. >>>> >>>> I need to know the SNR value at the receiver end. I also want to >>>> adjust the signal strength to change SNR. SNR is signal >>>> strength/noise in db. How can I do this? >>>> >>>> I see solutions with modulation schemes, but since I don’t use any >>>> modulation, how can it be done without that? >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Muneeba R. >> >
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