On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 6:14 PM, Raj Bhattacharjea <ra...@gatech.edu> wrote:

> Consider the identity channel that passes through it's input to its
> output. This is an idealization of a very short run of high quality cable
> between synchronized systems. Using GNURadio's channels_channel_model, I
> expect that the following provides the identity channel:
>
> Noise voltage: 0
> Frequency offset: 0
> Epsilon: 1
> Taps: 1
>
> That says add no noise, simulate no timing or carrier offset, and simulate
> a channel impulse response that is a single impulse with amplitude 1.
> However, I find that using such a channel model block introduces a delay
> that can be corrected by applying the taps [0,0,0,1]. See the attached
> flowgraph that subtracts the signals before and after the channel model; if
> you let taps = 1, the two signals don't cancel. If you use taps =
> [0,0,0,1], they do. Anyone know why this occurs? For my purposes, such a
> channel model is a stand-in that is ideal for now, but general enough to
> allow modeling of channel effects when I'm ready.
>
> --
> Raj Bhattacharjea, PhD
> Georgia Tech Research Institute
> Information and Communications Laboratory
> http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~rb288/
> 404.407.6622
>


For some value of "short" compared to the samples, otherwise, your cable is
also introducing delay.

Tom
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