Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] m-block timeouts, time passed, or pause?

[George Nychis]

Eric Blossom wrote:
 > How often are you checking for channel idle?  Couldn't you just cancel
> and schedule a new one each time you check for channel idle?

A new RSSI value is computed at the host with every new block of 
samples.  It doesn't use the FPGA value.  I suppose there is an 
approximate inter-block spacing that could be used to approximate the 
time passed by counting the number of blocks seen since the timer 
started and basing it off the decimation value... but that varies with 
queueing and isn't very CS-friendly which I think the m-block interface 
for MAC implementations should be.  A timer pause method is much more 
straight forward.  But, I don't know if the base architecture can 
support this.

- George