On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 17:06, Marcus D. Leech <mle...@ripnet.com> wrote:


> As long as overruns aren't happening *frequently* (like more than once
> every few dozen higher-layer-data-frames), then one can regard
>  such interrupts in data flow as equivalent to channel noise, which is
> something you have to cope with *regardless*--even if your
>  sample stream is "perfect".
>
> In fact, if your channel model makes brash assumptions like the only
> "noise" will be from the "natural physics" of the channel, then you've
>  already entered a state of sin.  In general, radio channels aren't
> well-behaved with regard to "goop" on the channel, and I regard sampling
>  overruns, at a 10,000ft level, as broadly-equivalent to "channel goop".
>

To a receiver, these appear as instantaneous phase jumps--which can, for
some modulations, take a long time to recover from.  At least now with UHD
one can update the receiver's notion of sample number/timebase accurately
when such a gap occurs.

Johnathan
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