Hi Martin,
I guess I have a few questions:
1.) Are there any examples in the gnuradio codebase/flowgraph repository that show how to do synchronized feedback between two USRPs? In other words, I send a signal from a transmit USRP, and then I receive that signal at the receive USRP, and then I send back something else from the receive USRP back to the transmit USRP, and this would be a sequential process in which they are aligned and know when to transmit and/or receive? I saw a
post that I think would be relevant, but I'm not sure how to apply it.
I believe this should be a pretty standard scenario in which you want to have two USRPs communicate with each other synchronously. I guess I'm just having trouble finding an example of how to do this.
2.) Related to the above question, maybe there are no examples to do feedback in one flowgraph, so what I have been doing is the following in my flowgraphs:
Flowgraph A:
The synchronized MIMO flowgraph (Figure 5) from
this, so essentially I have two USRPs synchronized and transmitting out two signals that should be offset but frequency aligned. In my own flowgraph's main(), instead of applying a "phase shift" block, I am applying my own "weights" block to both transmissions.
So, I am now sending a signal that has those weights applied to it. So, after I do tb.start(), then I sleep for 10 seconds (by doing sleep(10)) hoping that in the 10 seconds my receiver will catch the signal that I'm transmitting and put it into file.
Flowgraph B:
My own receiver.py in which I have a USRP sink->FFT->Complex to Mag->File sink. I also have a connection from FFT->QT GUI to see a plot of what is being captured.
I now run Flowgraph A in one terminal and Flowgraph B in another terminal. I need to capture A's transmission with the first weights within the 10 seconds (as it's sleeping) into the file sink. Then, A will send a signal with another set of weights applied, and I will need to capture that in the next 10 seconds, and so on. My problem is that I'm often capturing noise because my receive was not aligned with when I was transmitting my desired signal. So, I end up only capturing noise after the transmission stops as opposed to the actual signal when the transmission is happening.
Essentially, I am trying to mimic feedback by doing the above, but I don't know how to align my transmitter and receiver, especially because they are two different blocks. Is there a way to make both the transmission and reception one block so that I can do sleep(rx_time + n_samples_since_tag/sampling_rate) (I think this could be right?) as opposed to my static sleep(10) and pray for the best?
Would it be helpful at all if I showed you my code? I still feel like I'm not being clear. Sorry about that. If there were any examples, then I think that would be the best for me to look at.
Thanks for any help again.