[Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM status

2007-03-07 Thread Brett L. Trotter
What is the current status of the OFDM project? Is it such that I could give it a try using a tunnel.py type setup over a shared wireline - or at least over two separate RX/TX wires? Last I heard the receiver and transmitter were working but not over the air.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM status

2007-03-07 Thread Kuntal Majumdar
Hello, Who is doing the OFDM project? May I get some info on that, because my thesis project is on the same and I would love help in this regard. Thanks a lot. Regards, Kuntal Need Mail bonding? Go to

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM status

2007-03-07 Thread Robert McGwier
http://www.gnuradio.org/trac/browser/gnuradio/branches/developers/n4hy is the trac and svn co http://gnuradio.org/svn/gnuradio/branches/developers/n4hy/ofdm gets you the source. I am merging the trunk into this about every 50 revisions unless I see major progress on mblock, usrp, etc that

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM status

2007-03-07 Thread Dominik Auras
Hi! I kicked the can down the road with Matt Ettus and Tom Rondeau. We have spent two weeks on this total and others are welcome to contribute. We need to have the argument: How do we specify the constellations? How do we map carrier usage (which are pilots, clocks, etc.)? To open a

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM - on air?

2007-02-28 Thread Dominik Auras
Hi! So there is no obvious fault, e.g. that I set the wrong decimation/interpolation rate? (the samplerate should be 400kS/s?) I just compared tx_ofdm.dat, recorded in your simulation, to my recorded file. Therefore I modified usrp_fft.py. In tx_ofdm.dat, it shows a large frequency band in use,

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM - on air?

2007-02-28 Thread Dominik Auras
Hi! Just curious on the channel transfer function, I did some modification on the ofdm simulation to see the magnitude and the argument. I am inverting your equalizer coefficients (and actually scaling them down). The coefficients of the region of interest in frequency domain are sent out through

[Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM - on air?

2007-02-27 Thread Dominik Auras
Hello, I'm currently trying to make your ofdm simulation work with two usrp rev4. The scripts benchmark_ofdm_tx.py and ...rx.py are modified in order to send (I looked on the examples in the directory examples/python/digital/). Decimation rate ist 160, interpolation rate 320. Frequency 2.4G, two

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM - on air?

2007-02-27 Thread Tom Rondeau
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:discuss- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dominik Auras Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 10:09 AM To: discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org Subject: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM - on air? Hello, I'm currently trying to make your ofdm simulation

[Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM

2007-02-19 Thread Robert McGwier
In the n4hy developers branch, we spent today adding some new code and cleaning up a huge mess. The old temporary mess (ofdm2) is gone and ofdm has replaced it. This was current with the trunk this after and has the ofdm code. We transmitted with this in the lab today. My apologies for

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM

2007-02-19 Thread Chris Stankevitz
Robert McGwier wrote: In the n4hy developers branch, we spent today adding some new code and Congratulations on the cleanup! What is ofdm? What is n4hy? Chris ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM

2007-02-19 Thread Eric Blossom
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 05:13:28PM -0800, Chris Stankevitz wrote: Robert McGwier wrote: In the n4hy developers branch, we spent today adding some new code and Congratulations on the cleanup! What is ofdm? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonal_frequency-division_multiplexing What

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM PHY (802.11) ?

2007-02-18 Thread Eric Blossom
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 09:56:39AM -0500, Brian Padalino wrote: On 2/16/07, Tom Rondeau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our biggest concern will probably be getting the signal to work on the RFX boards, which (I think) all have the same output amplifier stage. What we do with all of the modulators

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM PHY (802.11) ?

2007-02-16 Thread Tom Rondeau
-Original Message- From: Brian Padalino [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 3:15 PM To: Tom Rondeau Cc: gnuradio mailing list Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM PHY (802.11) ? On an semi-related note, which of the RF front end cards will work

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM PHY (802.11) ?

2007-02-16 Thread Brian Padalino
On 2/16/07, Tom Rondeau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our biggest concern will probably be getting the signal to work on the RFX boards, which (I think) all have the same output amplifier stage. What we do with all of the modulators is scale it from +1 to -1 (even my QAM modulators are normalized

[Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM PHY (802.11) ?

2007-02-15 Thread Shravan Rayanchu
Hi all, Is the OFDM implementation (see below) compliant to that of 802.11 ? http://gnuradio.org/trac/browser/gnuradio/branches/developers/n4hy/ofdm2/gnuradio-examples/python/ofdm I am looking for source code which implements 802.11a scrambler, convolution encoder etc .. I couldn't find it in

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM PHY (802.11) ?

2007-02-15 Thread Johnathan Corgan
Shravan Rayanchu wrote: Is the OFDM implementation (see below) compliant to that of 802.11 ? http://gnuradio.org/trac/browser/gnuradio/branches/developers/n4hy/ofdm2/gnuradio-examples/python/ofdm No. This is a work in progress implementation of a generic, parameterized OFDM

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM PHY (802.11) ?

2007-02-15 Thread Tom Rondeau
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:discuss- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shravan Rayanchu Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 2:56 PM To: gnuradio mailing list Subject: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM PHY (802.11) ? Hi all, Is the OFDM implementation (see below

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM PHY (802.11) ?

2007-02-15 Thread Brian Padalino
On an semi-related note, which of the RF front end cards will work with the OFDM waveform? From my understanding, it has a pretty high peak-to-average ratio which might cause some problems with some transmitters. How are the floating point numbers calculated on the PC going to be normalized

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM

2007-02-15 Thread Robert McGwier
The OFDM work has begun under my (n4hy) branch. Next week it will continue as I travel to Virginia Tech to work with Tom, Matt, and others on this and other work. When we have an OFDM transceiver and can drive one of the Flexible boards from Matt on the air, we will move it into the trunk

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM

2007-02-12 Thread Johnathan Corgan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm pretty new to gnu radio and I want to transmit an OFDM signal using different modulation types (BPSK, QPSK, and 64-QAM). The concept is pretty simple: read data, map it to a specified constellation map, and then send it through an IFFT. I don't know if this

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM

2007-02-12 Thread Tom Rondeau
Johnathan Corgan wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm pretty new to gnu radio and I want to transmit an OFDM signal using different modulation types (BPSK, QPSK, and 64-QAM). The concept is pretty simple: read data, map it to a specified constellation map, and then send it through an IFFT.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM in n4hy's tree

2007-01-28 Thread Tom Rondeau
Robert McGwier wrote: Like all things in branches, until they are not in branches, this is absolutely development code and here is no guarantee of completeness or even correctness. It is the reason for doing this kind of work in branches rather than imposing it on everyone in the trunk. In

[Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM in n4hy's tree

2007-01-26 Thread Brett Trotter
I did a bootstrap, configure, make, make install on n4hy's tree and when I try to run ofdm_benchmark_tx, I get [EMAIL PROTECTED] ofdm]# ./benchmark_ofdm_tx.py Traceback (most recent call last): File ./benchmark_ofdm_tx.py, line 23, in ? from gnuradio import gr, gru, modulation_utils File

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM in n4hy's tree

2007-01-26 Thread Brett Trotter
Brett Trotter wrote: I did a bootstrap, configure, make, make install on n4hy's tree and when I try to run ofdm_benchmark_tx, I get [EMAIL PROTECTED] ofdm]# ./benchmark_ofdm_tx.py Traceback (most recent call last): File ./benchmark_ofdm_tx.py, line 23, in ? from gnuradio import gr,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM in n4hy's tree

2007-01-26 Thread Dan Halperin
Brett Trotter wrote: Replying to myself here, I heard from someone that I should do make uninstall on the standard tree before doing make install on n4hy's tree. I make uninstalled both just to make sure it was cleaned out, and toasted /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gnuradio (same for

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM in n4hy's tree

2007-01-26 Thread Eric Blossom
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 02:55:29PM -0800, Brett Trotter wrote: Brett Trotter wrote: I did a bootstrap, configure, make, make install on n4hy's tree and when I try to run ofdm_benchmark_tx, I get [EMAIL PROTECTED] ofdm]# ./benchmark_ofdm_tx.py Traceback (most recent call last):

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM in n4hy's tree

2007-01-26 Thread Robert McGwier
I am doubting the libtool error in this one. If you have the libtool error, it shows up well before this. You cannot complete the make. IF you cannot complete the make, and it dies in making the mblock message block code, then you can go back to the pmt directory and in that directory do

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM in n4hy's tree

2007-01-26 Thread Brett Trotter
Robert McGwier-2 wrote: I am doubting the libtool error in this one. If you have the libtool error, it shows up well before this. You cannot complete the make. IF you cannot complete the make, and it dies in making the mblock message block code, then you can go back to the pmt

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM in n4hy's tree

2007-01-26 Thread Eric Blossom
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 06:25:29PM -0800, Brett Trotter wrote: I took Dan Halperin's advice and totally deleted my build tree- I also totally cleaned out all traces of gnuradio and re-checked out everything from subversion and re-built (n4hy's tree) and am still missing

[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

[Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM block standard 802.11 help

2006-06-14 Thread Gianni
Hello,i'm an italian student and i'm studying gnu radio for writing my future degree.I need that someone give me informations about how to write an ofdm block that follow the 802.11g standards.. Thank you ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list

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

2006-04-29 Thread Jens Elsner
Hi Prateek, yes - I sampled another radio station (this time at 1,5 GHz - broader subcarriers) and the jitter was significantly reduced. I implemented deinterleavingi, channel coding, and descrambling - but so far no success in demodulating. Yesterday I wrote a sender to check my receiver but I

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
Further more this means that the demodulated symbol (differences!) should always have phase 0, pi/4, 2pi/4, 3pi/4 (plus a *constant* offset of pi/8). But this offset is varying. Am I right? And why should the transmitter introduce a varying offset? The problem is somewhere in the demodulation

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

2006-04-04 Thread Achilleas Anastasopoulos
Jens, 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 week on your code: 1) where in the standard it says that this is pi/4 DQPSK ? I only saw that the modulation used is

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 demodulation problem / example video

2006-04-04 Thread Achilleas Anastasopoulos
Jens, I used a complete ad-hoc method for automatic frequency estimation: tracing the minimum ratio of the power of DC over the total power of the remaining channels, averaged over all symbols in a frame. Your estimate seems quite good! I atatch the .m file I have not tried anything with the

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

2006-04-04 Thread Robert McGwier
Prateek Dayal wrote: On 4/4/06, *Robert McGwier* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~yasi/publications.html http://www.cds.caltech.edu/%7Eyasi/publications.html Also for frequency offset, what really matters is not the frequency offset in Hz,

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

2006-04-03 Thread Robert McGwier
Jens: This pi/4-DQPSK. That means New-symbol * (complex conjugate (Old-symbol)) is pi/4 modulo pi/2. Are you taking this into account on both the transmitter and the receiver and it in all of the bins before your inverse fft provides the time domain signal to transmit would be my

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 Charles Swiger
On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 10:53 +0200, Jens Elsner wrote: Well - you can download the standard at ETSI. It's open and published. I don't know about the US. Ok - last time I asked about the US hdradio standard I got the impression that the lower levels of the stack were for licensee eyes only.

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
You are absolutely right - the matlab code is attached. You can get my sample data (local radio station, 3 MBytes) from http://www.1c3.de/dab_ml.dat.bz2. Jens On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 10:27:57AM -0500, Robert McGwier wrote: Why don't you allow us to provide you with help based on the reality as

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 in a

[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

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM / DAB demodulation

2006-03-31 Thread Clark Pope
filter transition are distorting the final result. -Clark From: Jens Elsner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM / DAB demodulation Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 19:28:38 +0200 After some thinking: Could this be phase noise? If it is, which oscillator

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM / DAB demodulation

2006-03-31 Thread Charles Swiger
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 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

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM / DAB demodulation

2006-03-31 Thread Eric Blossom
On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 05:10:40PM -0500, Clark Pope wrote: I would doubt that unless your USRP is defective. The phase noise should only become a major factor at baud rates below about 10 kbaud. What's the actual bandwidth of the DAB signal? Did you try collecting at 4 MSPS and then

[Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM Tx/Rx with USRP

2006-03-04 Thread Prateek Dayal
Hi everyone,In our group, we are trying to experiment with OFDM and want to setup an OFDM Tx/Rx chain and performs experiments and evaluate several synchronization (timing/frequency) and equalization algorithms. We finally want to be able to transmit/receive OTA at 2.4 Ghz ISM band. I saw some

[Discuss-gnuradio] ofdm test bench

2005-04-28 Thread cswiger
Gang - Yesterday I finally figured out how to create a rudimentary ofdm signal, and today I slapped a receiver together and was suprised to see they actually (somewhat) work - at least it's something to work with and play with parameters and see what happens. Currently using psk31 and gmsk

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