Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] (GSoC) MIMO system

2014-02-23 Thread Alick Zhao
On 02/24/2014 12:33 AM, YiZiRui Zhou wrote: > Hello everyone, > > > I’m a graduate student from China. I major in Computer Science and my > research focus on wireless networks. Today, I’m glad to share some of my > ideas on MIMO with you. (maybe a little pleonastic) > Nice to see a Chinese face

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] (GSoC) MIMO system

2014-02-26 Thread Alick Zhao
On 02/26/2014 01:57 AM, Karan Talasila wrote: > Hi Alick, > Do you have an english copy of your thesis? I am looking to > read up on MIMO implementation and try a few basic things on gnuradio. > Sorry, but I do not. I suggest you read the application notes "Synchronization and MIMO C

[Discuss-gnuradio] GSoC 2014 Proposal: Improve PyBOMBS

2014-03-21 Thread Alick Zhao
Hi all, Sorry to introduce so late, but I want to share my GSoC 2014 proposal about improving PyBOMBS. It is available on Github [1], and I mentioned the link in Google Melange. I was busy with several urgent tasks and risks missing the GSoC. Hope now is still in time. I would like to thank for t

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GSoC 2014 Proposal: Improve PyBOMBS

2014-03-21 Thread Alick Zhao
2014-03-21 23:24 GMT+08:00 Alick Zhao : > Hi all, > > [1] https://github.com/alick9188/gsoc2014-proposal "Repo" > [2] > > https://github.com/alick9188/gsoc2014-proposal/blob/master/proposal.pdf?raw=true > "PDF" > > I added more details to the propo

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Strange problem when using build-gnuradio script

2012-03-31 Thread Alick Zhao
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:06:49 -0400, Marcus D. Leech wrote: > > However, it seems that the pre-requisites installer for UBuntu 10.X is > asking for installation of "liborc" (I added that the other day), and > that causes the pre-requisites install to fail for everything. I've > removed that in th

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] questions about bpsk rx with different noise voltage

2012-04-12 Thread Alick Zhao
On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:33:01 -0400, Tom Rondeau wrote: > > Alick, > > Why are you using 1's and 0's? Is this just for some academic exercise > or are you trying to do something with this kind of a constellation? > I'm only asking out of curiosity. > > It also looks like you're heavily biasing th

[Discuss-gnuradio] make test failure at qa_constellation_receiver

2012-04-12 Thread Alick Zhao
Hi all, Recently I have upgraded my gnuradio build to v3.5.3 on several computers, and I find that on two machines with Ubuntu 11.10, make test will fail the test qa_constellation_receiver while on the other two with Fedora 16 all tests are passed. To investigate the problem, I add one line in th

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] make test failure at qa_constellation_receiver

2012-04-14 Thread Alick Zhao
On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:20:01 -0700, Ben Reynwar wrote: > 2012/4/12 Alick Zhao : >> Hi all, >> >> Recently I have upgraded my gnuradio build to v3.5.3 on several >> computers, and I find that on two machines with Ubuntu 11.10, make test >> will fail the test qa_co

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] make test failure at qa_constellation_receiver

2012-04-14 Thread Alick Zhao
On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 13:40:35 +0200, Martin Braun wrote: > On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 05:20:13PM +0800, Alick Zhao wrote: >> Yes the bug still occurs. >> >> I just wrote a simple script to ran the test for 50 times on T60 with >> Ubuntu, GNU Radio 3.5.3 equipped, before and

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] make test failure at qa_constellation_receiver

2012-04-15 Thread Alick Zhao
On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 22:13:50 -0700, Ben Reynwar wrote: > It appears that each test case is being run twice. I think once to > generate the xml output, and once to generate output for stdout and > tell you whether it failed. The random number generator isn't being > reseeded at the start of each

[Discuss-gnuradio] symbol rate calc in digital_bert_rx.py

2012-04-18 Thread Alick Zhao
Hi folks, I think the calculation of symbol rate on line 73 of gr-digital/examples/narrowband/digital_bert_rx.py contains a bug. Here is the line: self._symbol_rate = self._bitrate * self._demod.bits_per_symbol() It should be / rather than *, right? alick __

[Discuss-gnuradio] strange behavior when make gnuradio in build directory

2012-04-22 Thread Alick Zhao
Hi all, I meet a strange behavior when building gnuradio (v3.5.3.X) on my desktop with Fedora 16 these two days. When I build in the directory build/: rm -rf * gr-cmake # my script which call cmake with some options enabled make -j 8 && make test The test 'qa_pmt' always fail. When run ./

[Discuss-gnuradio] USRP: is performance degradation of PSK OK?

2012-04-24 Thread Alick Zhao
Hi list, I am experimenting with narrowband benchmark_tx/rx in real indoor air interface. The software is GNU Radio 3.5.3.2 and the hardware available is USRP with RFX2400 daughter boards. When I use gmsk modulation to transmit and receive, the performance is quite good - very few packets are los

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP: is performance degradation of PSK OK?

2012-04-24 Thread Alick Zhao
On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 07:52:09 -0700, Nick Foster wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 5:13 AM, Alick Zhao wrote: > >> Hi list, >> >> I am experimenting with narrowband benchmark_tx/rx in real indoor air >> interface. The software is GNU Radio 3.5.3.2 and the hard

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] benchmark_tx.py BPSK Signal Details

2012-04-26 Thread Alick Zhao
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:05:41 +0200, Sebastian Döring wrote: > Hello all, > > I want to know how I could possibly find out the complete details about > the BPSK-Signal generated by the benchmark_tx.py GNU Radio script. > Should I look at the code and at which file respectively? > > Thanks in advan

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP: is performance degradation of PSK OK?

2012-04-26 Thread Alick Zhao
On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:01:33 +0800, Alick Zhao wrote: > On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 07:52:09 -0700, Nick Foster wrote: > >> >> Alick, >> >> You will have to instrument your flowgraph in order to find out. Add file >> sinks to different stages in the transmitter and

[Discuss-gnuradio] flow graph with feedback by using udp source/sink

2012-05-09 Thread Alick Zhao
Hi list, I build a flow graph with both transmitter and receiver, and the forward path works fine. Then I want to let receiver block to feedback some data to the transmitter block, and I learn that GNU Radio does not allow the flow graph has loops. Now I'm trying to walkaround the limitation by us

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] flow graph with feedback by using udp source/sink

2012-05-10 Thread Alick Zhao
Sorry I forgot to CC my last email to the list. Below is Josh's reply with my walkaround (quoted). On Thu, 10 May 2012 10:35:49 -0700, Josh Blum wrote: > >> >> I will look into it and have a try. I wonder if there are some examples >> to begin with the exploration. I don't have experience with ne

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Is it possible to have 2 TX x 1 RX MISO in GNU Radio

2012-06-03 Thread Alick Zhao
On Sat, 2 Jun 2012 17:47:50 -0400, Nick Iliev wrote: > Hello, > > we have implemented a 2 TX x 1 RX MISO testbed with GNU Radio 3.4 and > USRP1 . Both transmitters are using at 2.4GHz ( actually tx1 uses > 2.401GHz and tx2 uses 2.403GHz ) , and are sending data ( BPSK > modulated ) at the same ti

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] A silly question

2012-08-26 Thread Alick Zhao
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 10:18:53 -0700, Josh Blum wrote: > > > On 08/24/2012 06:26 AM, sumitstop wrote: >> >> Thanks Ryan...it worked for the three UHD warnings. Now I shall do something >> about >> > > http://files.ettus.com/uhd_docs/manual/html/general.html#disabling-or-redirecting-prints-to-stdou

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] A silly question

2012-08-29 Thread Alick Zhao
On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 09:46:56 -0700, Josh Blum wrote: > >> >> How can we do that in a C++/Python hybrid flowgraph? Is there a Python >> interface out there? >> > > So to register a python callback into C++ is tricky. The answer is SWIG > directors. However, I nearly killed myself yesterday trying

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] dfts ofdm block

2012-09-09 Thread Alick Zhao
On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 09:54:30 -0700, Viktor Ivan Rodriguez Abdala wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking to develop a block called dfts ofdm, based in a similar > block called ofdm mod, when I'm trying to create the new block with > gr-modtool I get this error. > > $ python gr-modtool.py add -t hierpython d

[Discuss-gnuradio] patch to fix noise seed in channel model

2012-11-02 Thread Alick Zhao
lick >From 96699e5a3e9b7b7f585245e8232bb2cbfed75c62 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alick Zhao Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 19:41:47 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] fix noise seed in channel_model This is a followup of the fix in commit 0d6871b3. The channel_model block is a heir-block which contains a noise source inside. The noise source nee

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] howto_square_ff require Gruel

2012-11-09 Thread Alick Zhao
On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 17:13:54 +0800, Gong Zhang wrote: > Tom Rondeau wrote: >> Oh, I see what's happening; I didn't look closely enough at your first >> message. >> You don't really want to use gr_modtool to add new components to GNU >> Radio. It's meant to be used to build separate projects that wi