On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Marcus D. Leech <mle...@ripnet.com> wrote:

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> On 08/06/2011 06:27 PM, shantharam balasubramanian wrote:
>
> Hi
> I have been working in usrp2 testbed, and I have been modifying the
> benchmark_tx and rx programs for my project. There have been situations
> where I was supposed to introduce noise to find out BER. I did that by
> giving lower  transmitter amplitude values. But very low values cause packet
> loss along with higher BER values. I just want to know if there Is there
> anyway to just cause high BER values, without causing packet loss? Is there
> any way I can do that inside the program or should I do it by any other way
> e.g.by using some noise producing source?
>
>  Well, in real-world radio communications systems, low-SNR *does* cause
> packet loss.  That's entirely expected.  Nature doesn't discriminate
>   between packet-synchronization data, and the actual payload data.
>
>
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> Marcus Leech
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Perhaps he could design a long preamble sequence, many symbols, and use that
to correlate against. That way you can assure packet lock, but symbol
decoding might not always work.
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