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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM Packet lost


From: Aditya Dhananjay
Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OFDM Packet lost
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 09:45:51 -0500

Hi Piotr,

I was facing the same issue, and the issue is caused by Schmidl-Cox sometimes detecting the packet boundaries a little late. This cannot really be helped, as channel noise may force the correlator to detect a peak/plateau later than it should. I have found a couple of ways to overcome this problem:

a) After every packet, send a stream of maybe 10 "0"s. This ensures that even if one packet is detected a symbol late, the subsequent packet has enough room to be detected. The way to implement this is by having another tagged stream of "0"s, the tag being packet_length. At the transmitter side, pass the symbols from the TX block into one input of a tagged-stream-mux, and the tagged stream of "0"s into the other input of the tagged stream mux.

b) In the header-payload demux, 'consume' a few symbols lesser than you need to. That way, you won't accidentally eat up the peak trigger from the next packet. As was discussed in a different thread, this is an unclean solution -- a hack!

Hope that helps, and happy hacking!

Best regards,
Aditya




On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 8:24 AM, Piotr Potocki <address@hidden> wrote:
Hi all,

I am trying to create OFDM transmission on USRP 2. I am using two URSP's (XVCR 2450) which are close to each other. To do that I am using Gnu radio 3.7.2 with slightly modify OFDM_benchmark_receiver (see img 1) and transmitter.
But the problem is that I am still receiving packet lost around 1.73 - 2.2 %. Even when I am using direct cable between USRP's the packet lost is the same (around 1.73 - 2.0 % newer below). I don't think it can be frequency offset (I checked exactly what offset i have and corrected it manually).
 1) So my first question is how to improve packet lost (my guess is the timing synchronization) and is this packet lost a normal thing in this scenario (without FEC) ?
2) Second question is what methods of timing synchronization (auto correlation function, ?)  are used in this OFDM example and where to find them ?

My specs of system:
FFT length = 64
Sample rate = 2M
Packet length = 40 ( i tried with different packet length and 40 gave the best results) 
Modulation = BPSK
Carrier frequency = 2.4 Ghz
Occupied carriers = 52
 
Best regards,
Piotr Potocki




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