Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] question about using FSK on noise

2016-06-07 Thread abhinav narain
z as shown in the flowgraph attached, but I wasn't clear on the next step to filter. I am sure you will have more thoughts on the flowgraph. I have the sample file with the captured IQ samples, if you would like to have a look: http://sites.noise.gatech.edu/~abhinav/tmp/plc_message_500kHz.dat

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] question about using FSK on noise

2016-06-07 Thread abhinav narain
PS? > > cheers > > Chris > > On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 6:35 AM, abhinav narain > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> I am trying to make a covert communication channel using SMPS noise >> generated by the processor as a part of my research. >> >> I see a chang

[Discuss-gnuradio] question about using FSK on noise

2016-06-06 Thread abhinav narain
Hi all, I am trying to make a covert communication channel using SMPS noise generated by the processor as a part of my research. I see a change in frequency emitted by the processor when I run the following loop (http://pastebin.com/uRghLuLm) with message variable containing the message, and see t

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Question about sampling rate and center freq

2016-04-30 Thread abhinav narain
Hi Marcus, > >> > Not at all! > Sorry, I was taking pictures of hardware and hence just took one for > the GRC too. As I showed in previous picture, I am only using RX-B. I > am not sure how to connections will be for dual mode, but currently I > am just using one. I get complex values in the GRC

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Question about sampling rate and center freq

2016-04-28 Thread abhinav narain
Thank you for your time, Abhinav Best regards, > Marcus > > > > On 27.04.2016 19:13, abhinav narain wrote: > > Hi all, > I want to sample first 250KHz on the channel. > I am using the (sampling_with_lowpass.JPG) setup to extract quadrature > samples. > I ha

[Discuss-gnuradio] Question about sampling rate and center freq

2016-04-27 Thread abhinav narain
Hi all, I want to sample first 250KHz on the channel. I am using the (sampling_with_lowpass.JPG) setup to extract quadrature samples. I have LFRX card where i just use the RX-B pin to extract complex samples from the channel. My question is (question.JPG) how are the two setups different, assumin

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Question regarding correlating output and IQ samples in a reciever

2016-01-30 Thread abhinav narain
Hi Marcus, > > It applies, but you must be aware of the fact that transmissions have a > different ratio of "on" symbols and "off" symbols have different > energy/power. So without knowing how many ons and offs you were sending, > that number is pretty meaningless. > Thanks for pointing out this

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Question regarding correlating output and IQ samples in a reciever

2016-01-29 Thread abhinav narain
Hi Marcus, > >> > I am simply doing OOK. > > >> Generally, [image: $\frac{S+N}{N}$] is only really a useful measure if >> you either have >> >>1. a constant power modulation (e.g. PSK), or >>2. whiten your over-the-air bits sufficiently (using *coding*), so >>that for (stochastically s

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Question regarding correlating output and IQ samples in a reciever

2016-01-27 Thread abhinav narain
>> that *exactly and reliably* correspond to the symbol timing; that's why you >> need timing recovery. The question here is: what do you actually need? The >> IQ samples before timing recovery aren't useful to the decoder. >> >> Just to assure you: AGC2 doesn&#x

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Question regarding correlating output and IQ samples in a reciever

2016-01-26 Thread abhinav narain
ultiplies with a factor that changes so that average power stays the same. > > Best regards, > Marcus > > > On 01/25/2016 06:26 PM, abhinav narain wrote: > > Hi All, > > My problem is that above calculation sort of works, and isn't it exact. > I have the follo

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Question regarding correlating output and IQ samples in a reciever

2016-01-25 Thread abhinav narain
03 AM, abhinav narain wrote: > Hi all, > This might be too simple, but I wanted to confirm as I am not sure how the > blocks manipulate the IQ samples and how AGC works, does it add more > samples for compensating the noise average or not. > > I have a flowgraph(image attac

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Decoding constellation (0, 1-1) using gnuradio

2015-11-11 Thread abhinav narain
to think that was a message. I think I might want to do external synchronization to demonstrate this idea, but I am unsure how to kickstart and test it using N210 USRP hardware. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Abhinav > Best regards, > Marcus > > > > &g

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Decoding constellation (0, 1-1) using gnuradio

2015-11-11 Thread abhinav narain
receiver, I get more number of non-bold zeroes than what I expect(=8). Is this something that I cannot solve because of clock-drift/synchronization, or is my flow graph incorrect causing this ? Thanks, Abhinav On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 12:58 PM, abhinav narain wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Decoding constellation (0, 1-1) using gnuradio

2015-11-10 Thread abhinav narain
On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 12:45 PM, Marcus Müller wrote: > Hi Abhinav, > > sorry, I might just be tired right now, but I don't understand this > sentence: > > On 10.11.2015 21:18, abhinav narain wrote: > > I have now fallen to doing PPM where I map {0,1} bits t

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Decoding constellation (0, 1-1) using gnuradio

2015-11-09 Thread abhinav narain
his is a problem as I cannot decode my symbols. Is this a problem with clock drift and cannot be fixed with gnuradio ? Do you recommend any other way to deal with it ? Thanks, Abhinav > Best regards, > Marcus > > > On 10/12/2015 06:00 PM, abhinav narain wrote: > > Hi, >

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] How to minimize Spillage of energy in neighboring frequencies while transmission

2015-10-26 Thread abhinav narain
rm is changed. Please see the grc attached, I would be grateful to you if I could get clarity on it. Thanks, Abhinav > Best regards, > Marcus > > > On 21.10.2015 22:45, abhinav narain wrote: > > Hi Marcus, > I see your point, and I can add intepolation factor as 196K/2K =98 in

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] How to minimize Spillage of energy in neighboring frequencies while transmission

2015-10-21 Thread abhinav narain
red in my reply to your > reply to Sylvain's mail; basically, yes, you need to use a sampling rate > >=196kHz, but no one is stopping you from putting any signal into that > sampling rate that has a smaller bandwidth. See my comments on oversampling. > > Best regards, > Marcus >

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] How to minimize Spillage of energy in neighboring frequencies while transmission

2015-10-21 Thread abhinav narain
Hi Sylvain, > > You can see the spectrogram at the receiver. I want to do narrowband(1 > kHz) > > transmission hence I am keeping the sampling freq at transmitter at 1k. > > That sentence is just wrong. It's actually quite the opposite. > > By keeping the sample rate at the transmitter at 1k, you

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] How to minimize Spillage of energy in neighboring frequencies while transmission

2015-10-21 Thread abhinav narain
ed Sylvain's advice. Just oversample your signal by using an > interpolating FIR filter to something that the USRP can happily work with. > > So, here is what I am not clear about- I should use 196 KHz as sampling rate ? So, the minimum BW of my signal will 196/2 =98KHz, and that is the b

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Decoding constellation (0, 1-1) using gnuradio

2015-10-15 Thread abhinav narain
only two blocks on receive side, instead of using the FLL-BandEdge block. Thanks, Abhinav On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 2:21 PM, abhinav narain wrote: > Hi Marcus, > I messed that up! I am not sure if formatting is correct in the copied > message, but yes I have emailed it to the discuss list n

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Decoding constellation (0, 1-1) using gnuradio

2015-10-12 Thread abhinav narain
This is the grc file if someone would like to run it on their setup. On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 9:00 AM, abhinav narain wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to transmit -1,0,1 { [1]+ 100*[0]+[-1] }, basically BPSK lot > of 0s filled in between at certain frequency. I have few questions. > &q