[Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio / Software Radio Trainings in Germany

2015-04-28 Thread Jens Elsner
Dear GNU Radio community, we are happy to announce that Fennec Research in cooperation with Munich Innovation Labs is offering GNU Radio User Developer Trainings in Germany! Date: August 6, Thursday to August 7, Friday, 2015 Venue: Bremen, Germany Goal: Independent development and

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] DAB - Help

2014-09-25 Thread Jens Elsner
The OFDM receiver is geared towards packetized data. It might work, but you'd need: - A synchronization algorithm - A better equalizer - A definition for the packet format. For DAB the pi/4-dqpsk is differentially encoded in time over all subcarriers, with a pilot symbol over all subcarriers

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GSoC: Multiple students working on an idea.

2014-03-09 Thread Jens Elsner
Hi Jared, Am 09.03.2014 19:30, schrieb Jared Boone: 11. What happens if two students are accepted to work on the same project, e.g. from an organization's Ideas list? That's fine, a little duplication is par for the course in open source. I take this to mean I should have both students

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gr::buffer::allocate_buffer: warning:

2013-07-07 Thread Jens Elsner
Hi Manu, Tracie, I wouldn't worry about this for now. I'm assuming this is for your GSoC project? If so, just keep going and make sure you get the math right. You'll want to move this into a C++ block eventually, anyways, and do further optimizations there. We can worry about this problem at

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Status of GSoC?

2013-05-15 Thread Jens Elsner
Am 15.05.2013 17:13, schrieb karimkhan: Can we know the status of GSoC applications? Do we need to take any action meanwhile? See Martin's email last week. J ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GSOC ideas [802.11]

2013-04-23 Thread Jens Elsner
Am 23.04.2013 13:10, schrieb 2_...@libero.it: Hi 2_b_2, I think you should discuss this off-list directly with the designated mentor. Yep,but my mentor told me to submit my proposal also to the community. Actually, he didn't. There seems to be a communication issue. For everyone: If you

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GSOC ideas [802.11]

2013-04-23 Thread Jens Elsner
Hi 2_b_2, Am 23.04.2013 19:09, schrieb 2_...@libero.it: Yep,but my mentor told me to submit my proposal also to the community. Actually, he didn't. There seems to be a communication issue. sorry, I have not explained well.not my mentor(because mentor aren't assigned now), but the potential

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GSOC ideas [802.11]

2013-04-22 Thread Jens Elsner
Thank you for your time. Hi 2_b_2, I think you should discuss this off-list directly with the designated mentor. Best regards, Jens ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] LDPC codes - GSOC 2013

2013-04-19 Thread Jens Elsner
Hi Maria and everyone else interested in the LDPC code project! The LDPC GSoC proposal has drawn quite some interest, and I'm very happy about that. A few student have already discussed their proposals with me offline. A few points for all of you: 1. I'd like to keep the project practical,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GSOC ideas [802.11]

2013-04-17 Thread Jens Elsner
Something obvious (although you might not actually want it :) is a 2D equalizer and higher modulation schemes. MB sorry,but i didn't understand..why an equalizer?ofdm don't requeire it,is it? The equalization step is easy - the hard part is channel estimation given a certain set of pilot

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Leading Institutes or Universities in SDR

2012-03-08 Thread Jens Elsner
Daniel, Thank you for your suggestion, but I am currently looking for some universities in US... Do you have any other thoughts? thanks! VT is certainly a very good choice if you are interested in SDR. But I think you need to be a bit more specific. What exactly do you want to do? Apply for

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Leading Institutes or Universities in SDR

2012-03-08 Thread Jens Elsner
Daniel, never mind, you wrote planning on pursuing a PhD. I missed that. :-) Just my two cents: SDR is a mix of RF/communication engineering + signal processing + (Matlab/Python/.../C++/C/Assembler/FPGA) programming. Any graduate program that provides you with these skills will allow you to

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Happy Birthday Heinrich Rudolf

2012-02-22 Thread Jens Elsner
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 7:33 AM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: ...and hooray for Hertzian waves! -- Principal Investigator For all those coming to Karlsruhe for our workshop [2], I'll gladly throw a belated birthday party (read: offer you a can of cold beer) at the birthplace of EM waves [1]. Jens

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio is crap and GSoc

2012-02-16 Thread Jens Elsner
Andrew, Am 15.02.2012 19:41, schrieb Andrew Davis: Well some major GNUradio program would drive up sales of USRP's :) Back on topic, IMHO Gnuradio's problem with large apps stems from it trying to be the source to sink and everything in between of a radio. Lets take DREAM for example, they

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 MATLAB

2012-02-10 Thread Jens Elsner
Hi Kaleem, Am 10.02.2012 10:12, schrieb Kaleem Rana: I am trying to implement a simple spectrum analyzer (based on energy detection) with MATLAB's SDRu package (NOT Simulink!!!). I started with a [...] This is the GNU Radio mailing list, if you are looking for Matlab support try the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] submission to academic paper section

2011-12-01 Thread Jens Elsner
Arturo, Am 01.12.2011 20:05, schrieb Arturo Rinaldi: I'd like to submit my own graduation thesis to the academic section of the gnuradio wiki. Which is the right way to do it ? congratulations! Just add it yourself. Have a look at the mailing list archive or the web page on how to do that.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] DVB-T software for USRP?

2011-04-12 Thread Jens Elsner
Hi Vincenzo, so far I have not released the Soft-DVB code for a bunch of reasons, which include Soft-DVB code base being one of the main tools of our MA research here at DSPCoLa, Università di Pisa. I know that this has come up before, but I still would like to encourage you to rethink this

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNURadio is disappointing [was: Greeting and a question]

2011-01-21 Thread Jens Elsner
Hi Martin, On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 10:19:37 +0100, Martin Braun martin.br...@kit.edu wrote: And with all the drawbacks and bugs that GNU Radio has, there's nothing comparable in the open source domain. So if GNU Radio really sucks, then how about a proper discussion on what's wrong. And not about

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Burg spectral estimation

2010-03-27 Thread Jens Elsner
Hi Bob, On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:02:19 -0400, Robert McGwier rwmcgw...@gmail.com wrote: Jens: Have you considered and rejected Pisarenko estimtion techniques or just not tried them yet? The original application was narrow band interference suppression in DSSS systems. Burg's method works

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Burg spectral estimation

2010-03-26 Thread Jens Elsner
Hi Brian, we've done some work to our 'Spectral Estimation Toolbox' and added Burg's algorithm for spectral estimation. It's all on CGRAN, see https://www.cgran.org/wiki/SpecEst This is good stuff; thanks for sharing! If you don't mind, I am curious of your experience of the Burg versus

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP emulation ??

2009-05-15 Thread Jens Elsner
Hi Dave, On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 03:51:33AM -0400, davek wrote: somethin i have in my head i want to throw out there... how hard would it be ( or is it even possible? ) to create a device that appears to gnuradio to be a functioning USRP but actually passes data to and from capture files.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Correct method for compressing a power spectrum

2009-03-09 Thread Jens Elsner
From: Marcus D. Leech mle...@ripnet.com Let's say I have an FFT output that's many, many, bins wide, and I want to compress that information into a narrower display (let's say from 4M bins down to 1024 bins). My approach has been to sum up each set of [4M/1024] bins, and use that

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Latest publications: about DAB and Soft-DVB

2008-05-07 Thread Jens Elsner
Rafael, On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 11:11:24PM -0300, rafael2k wrote: Hi all, Can anyone make available the OFDM / DAB implementation by Jens Elsner, which original location was: - http://www.1c3.de/gr-dab.tar.bz2 If you're interested in DAB and GNU Radio, I'd recommend starting

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Distribution of USRP gain

2008-04-29 Thread Jens Elsner
Steven, On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 02:05:05PM -0400, Steven Clark wrote: A certain daughtercard can support 0-70dB of gain, and the main-board A/D chip can do 0-20dB of gain. If I request 50dB of gain from software, how does this get distributed between these two locations? Is one used

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Recovering x(t) from IQ samples

2007-08-18 Thread Jens Elsner
Just a quick answer - I hope I understood your problem correctly this time. On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 05:23:06PM -0600, Bahn William L Civ USAFA/DFCS wrote: I'm asking the question for several reasons - some theoretical and others practical. The basic driving force is as follows: I have the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Recovering x(t) from IQ samples

2007-08-18 Thread Jens Elsner
So the problem remains: Given only the i(t) and q(t) samples, which is all the USRP gives back, how do I reconstruct x(t)? Two options: 1) you need some kind of phase reference (coherent demodulation), insert pilot symbols into x(t) 2) use AM modulation over one carrier only; this requires

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP: FFT on FPGA?

2007-02-08 Thread Jens Elsner
Matt, thanks for your reply. is it feasible to implement an FFT directly on the FPGA in the USRP? Possible, yes, but the FPGA does not have any hard multipliers, so you'll need to use logic cells for that. But I don't think it is necessary. I would like to use the USRP for spectral

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Call For Ideas: Homebrew GSM scanner/receiver

2007-01-10 Thread Jens Elsner
Hi Steve, just checked your wiki. As was noted earlier on the list, Vanu Inc. (http://www.vanu.com/) has GSM working in software only. So that should be possible with GNU Radio, too. Check the list archive. I would suggest to start the project in software only, PCs will just become faster and

[Discuss-gnuradio] DAB receiver progress

2007-01-07 Thread Jens Elsner
Hi, for those interested in DAB and OFDM, I posted the results of my student project (including data files) to: http://www.1c3.de/dab/ I noticed that there has been some work on OFDM in the development branch, too. A big thanks you to everybody on the list, I learnt a lot about software radio

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] RDS / TMC / DAB / DVB-S/T ?

2006-10-14 Thread Jens Elsner
DAB (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_audio_broadcasting) or Jens Elsner [EMAIL PROTECTED] was working on this, not sure of the status. The work-in-progress is not in the GNU Radio repository. It's not my priority right now, but it (at least some functionality and my student project

[Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM / DAB receiver progress...

2006-08-13 Thread Jens Elsner
Hello, if someone is interested in OFDM / DAB, I posted what I did so far on http://www.1c3.de/gr-dab.tar.bz2. It contains a small GI correlation based OFDM transmitter / receiver for experiments, and a mode 2 DAB receiver (just displays the constellation). Jens

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] fast dot product?

2006-07-27 Thread Jens Elsner
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 11:08:25PM -0700, Eric Blossom wrote: On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 12:47:46AM +0200, Jens Elsner wrote: Hello, I'd like to calculate the complex dot product with GNU Radio. Is there a way to do it faster that this? This correlation takes ages... You can

[Discuss-gnuradio] gr_block: history

2006-07-27 Thread Jens Elsner
Hello, a quick question regarding gr_block::history() etc. Say I've called set_history(2) in the constructor and my work function pointers look like this: gr_complex const *in = (const gr_complex *) input_items[0]; gr_complex *out = (gr_complex *) output_items[0]; What does in point to? Is

[Discuss-gnuradio] fast dot product?

2006-07-26 Thread Jens Elsner
Hello, I'd like to calculate the complex dot product with GNU Radio. Is there a way to do it faster that this? This correlation takes ages... --- snipp --- // calculates the inner product a, b between complex vectors (dot // product), optionally shifts vector b first. gr_complex

[Discuss-gnuradio] CVS: gr.constellation_decode_cb ?

2006-07-24 Thread Jens Elsner
Hello, I'm using current CVS; constellation_decoder_cb seems to not get build correctly. inspect.getmembers(gr) shows no sign of it. Maybe someone could give me a pointer on where to look to fix it? Thanks, Jens ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] CVS: gr.constellation_decode_cb ?

2006-07-24 Thread Jens Elsner
Replying to myself here: I was *thinking* that I was using current CVS - instead, some old version was in the path first. Jens On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 11:27:05PM +0200, Jens Elsner wrote: Hello, I'm using current CVS; constellation_decoder_cb seems to not get build correctly

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Questions about gr_block

2006-07-21 Thread Jens Elsner
+0200, Jens Elsner wrote: Good morning! I started writing a small signal processing block (OFDM transmitter) and ran into some problems. My starting point was the well written gr-how-to-write-a-block tutorial. I have, let's say, 1536 input samples and want to produce 1800 output samples

[Discuss-gnuradio] Questions about gr_block

2006-07-20 Thread Jens Elsner
Good morning! I started writing a small signal processing block (OFDM transmitter) and ran into some problems. My starting point was the well written gr-how-to-write-a-block tutorial. I have, let's say, 1536 input samples and want to produce 1800 output samples with my block. When I run my

[Discuss-gnuradio] WCDMA with USRP

2006-06-10 Thread Jens Elsner
Hello everybody, I did some work the last couple of weeks implementing the cell search algorithm and despreading of basic channels for WCDMA (UMTS) using the USRP in Matlab. Unfortunately I do not have the copyright, so I can't post the code. But if anyone is interested in playing with WCDMA in

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] WCDMA with USRP

2006-06-10 Thread Jens Elsner
Dan, I sampled an UTRA FDD downlink signal and implemented the widely know standard cell search algorithm (see for example http://www.umtsworld.com/technology/cell_search.htm). To understand the details, you need to download the right document in the standard (ETSI TS 125 113, if I remember

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] WCDMA with USRP

2006-06-10 Thread Jens Elsner
by USRP (Python)? Angilberto. --- Jens Elsner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody, I did some work the last couple of weeks implementing the cell search algorithm and despreading of basic channels for WCDMA (UMTS) using the USRP in Matlab. Unfortunately I do not have

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] DAB

2006-05-28 Thread Jens Elsner
Hi Brett, I'm still at it, but recently been pretty occupied otherwise. Expect an update on my progress soon. :) Jens On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 03:05:33PM -0500, Brett L Trotter wrote: I recall a discussion from a few weeks ago where Jens mentioned having done some DAB receiving. I had been

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNURadio OFDM receiver design

2006-05-06 Thread Jens Elsner
, with this it is straightforward to implement - Differential coding Finally, I am currently implementing a generic - interleaver/deinterleaver. Achilleas Message: 2 Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 14:30:52 +0200 From: Jens Elsner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNURadio OFDM

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNURadio OFDM receiver design

2006-05-06 Thread Jens Elsner
question, our goals are one in the same and could work with Eric Blossom (who has offered lending some advice) to get this completed. What is your timeframe? Jens Elsner wrote: Hello everybody, I'd like to implement the physical layer of the DAB standard in GNURadio. The resulting

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNURadio OFDM receiver design

2006-05-06 Thread Jens Elsner
is your timeframe? Jens Elsner wrote: Hello everybody, I'd like to implement the physical layer of the DAB standard in GNURadio. The resulting code of should be as versatile as possible since the basic basic OFDM concept is the same for a lot of standards. Blocks that should be reusalbe

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM demodulation problem / example video

2006-04-29 Thread Jens Elsner
have some free time now and would like to work on this too in the gnuradio framework. Have u captured any more data that you can please share with me ? Regards Prateek On 4/6/06, Jens Elsner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Achilleas, thanks for your comments. I am beginning to like

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] hdtv hacking

2006-04-08 Thread Jens Elsner
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 07:11:21PM -0400, Michael Dickens wrote: I have a trellis encoder and the V decoder is in debugging (by me) - hope to have version 1 finished by the end of this weekend. These are generic encoder / decoder blocks, taking arbitrary # of input streams and element

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM demodulation problem / example video

2006-04-06 Thread Jens Elsner
(comments inlined) On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 02:02:23PM -0400, Robert McGwier wrote: Yes. Here is what you are missing: Let us concentrate (as does your nice animated gif) on one channel in the OFDM. Yes, what's depicted are all decoded symbols in one OFDM frame. Let us suppose you have a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM demodulation problem / example video

2006-04-06 Thread Jens Elsner
Achilleas, thanks for your comments. I am beginning to like this problem, as it has extended my knowlegde of OFDM tremendously - thanks everybody. Nevertheless I'd like to see it solved. We have ruled out pretty much every effect - I'm beginning to suspect that the transmitter actually sends

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM demodulation problem / example video

2006-04-05 Thread Jens Elsner
Achilleas, my estimate is based on frequency domain correlation. Just count the offset of the maximum (o). Then estimate the fractional offset (fo) by taking the value left (l) and right (r) of the maximum and calculate fo = (r-l)/(r+l). To compensate substract the resulting frequency offset

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM demodulation problem / example video

2006-04-05 Thread Jens Elsner
Thanks for the reply! I'm really struggeling here... Yes, I think this is a critical step. small letters are time domain and capital letters are frequency domain. x(n) --- X(k) FFT x(n-n') - e^(j*2*pi*n'*k/N) * X(k) FFT for one OFDM symbol, 0 =

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM demodulation problem / example video

2006-04-04 Thread Jens Elsner
to be received by the simple division you have done below. I hope I get time to visit it in greater detail today. Bob Jens Elsner wrote: Bob, thanks for the reply. This is exactly what I am doing: [...] dem = data ./ data_l; [...] A point-wise division by the last OFDM symbol

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM demodulation problem / example video

2006-04-04 Thread Jens Elsner
Achilleas, thanks for taking the time. My goal is to implement COFDM in gnuradio, DAB is a nice start. To your points: I got interested in this discussion and looked at the standard briefly and at your matlab code. I have a couple of initial points; I will spend more time sometime this

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM / DAB demodulation

2006-04-01 Thread Jens Elsner
To resample, I used the Matlab resample function chunk_resamp = resample(chunk, 2048, 2000); It's basically an FIR low-pass - phase is linear. I'll try again today without resampling, but then the timing is pretty much screwed up. Jens On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 04:28:14PM -0800, Eric Blossom

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM / DAB demodulation

2006-04-01 Thread Jens Elsner
Well - you can download the standard at ETSI. It's open and published. I don't know about the US. On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 05:46:49PM -0500, Charles Swiger wrote: On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 17:08 +0200, Jens Elsner wrote: I sampled a local DAB radio station at 225.648 MHz, decimation factor 32

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM / DAB demodulation

2006-04-01 Thread Jens Elsner
: [chunk_filt, z] = filter(b,a,chunk,z); This would cause phase discontinuities at the edges of each block. -Clark From: Jens Elsner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM / DAB demodulation Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 10:48:29 +0200 To resample, I used

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM / DAB demodulation

2006-04-01 Thread Jens Elsner
as opposed to conjecture. Post your matlab scripts. This remote viewing exercise is inefficient. Bob Jens Elsner wrote: I resampled all the data to do a proof-of-concept. The frames are only a small part of the chunk variable. What I am getting is a fairly nice pi/4 DPSK. Only

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM / DAB demodulation

2006-04-01 Thread Jens Elsner
On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 01:59:09PM -0800, Matt Ettus wrote: Jens Elsner wrote: I resampled all the data to do a proof-of-concept. The frames are only a small part of the chunk variable. What I am getting is a fairly nice pi/4 DPSK. Only that in between OFDM Symbols (there are 76

[Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM / DAB demodulation

2006-03-31 Thread Jens Elsner
Good morning, I sampled a local DAB radio station at 225.648 MHz, decimation factor 32 with the USRP/tvrx. DAB is using COFDM with pi/4-DPSK on 1536 subcarriers (see www.etsi.com, standard EN300401 for details). I wrote some Matlab code to demodulate the signal. The data is resampled from 2 MHz

[Discuss-gnuradio] gnuradio/usrp (almost) working / IIR filter design code

2005-06-02 Thread Jens Elsner
Hello, after some hours of fighting with wxpython and other dependencies gnuradio/usrp works - almost. No audio output so far: ice:/home/ice/gnuradio/gr-build/gnuradio-examples/python/audio# ./mono_tone.py -d /dev/dsp ALSA lib pcm.c:2068:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM /dev/dsp