Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Softbits in gr-ieee 802.11 ?

[Bastian Bloessl]

Hi,

you are right. The current implementation does not use soft-bits but 
feeds hard bits into the decoder.

In 2013, I used the soft-input Viterbi decoder from the IT++ library.

http://itpp.sourceforge.net/4.3.1/convcode.html

Best,
Bastian

On 01/17/2018 11:36 AM, sumit kumar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am doing some proof of concept using gr-ieee 802.11.
> The paper by author [1] says that it uses softbits, however in the method
>
> *constellation::decision_maker(const gr_complex *sample)*, I see outputs 
> as hardbits.
> Am I missing something here i.e. any particular commit or branch where 
> the softbits implementation is there.
>
>   Its very important for my algorithm to use softbits :-/
>
> [1] https://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2013/papers/srif/p9.pdf
>
> Sumit