Hi all,
I would like to send a MAC layer control packet every 4
ms from computer A to computer B to tell B when to send data using USRP
and GNU Radio. It is like TDMA and a frame is 4 ms. I am trying to do
this work by modifying tunnel.py in the gnuradio-example folder. I
removed the carry sensing part and added the control packet in the
tunnel.py.
I enabled the real-time scheduling. I set nice= -18, fusb_block_size =
512, fusb_nblocks = 2, modulation=gmsk, and bitrate =1Mb/sec.
OS: 2.6.29.6-217.2.7.fc11.i586
CPU: 2.8 GHz
Gnuradio: (latest development code 3.2.X)
I
used two computers and ran the modified tunnel.py on each computer. For
the test, in the main_loop (main loop for MAC) of tunnel.py I generated
one byte payload ( I sent the one byte payload chr(0x00) for 10 times)
to print the tx time on one computer and rx time on anther computer. I
used software to make two computers have the same system time. The tx
time (at computer A) – rx time (at computer B) of the payload is about
5ms. I am wondering why it takes so long to send one byte payload and
to decode the one byte payload. Through the test, I think I cannot
implement a TDMA that a frame is 4 ms. I have tried what I can do to
reduce the (tx time – rx time) value. However, no luck. Could anyone
please give me some hints? Should I just give up this way and try to
use the in-band singalling? Any suggestions will be greatly
appreciated!!
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