Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] How to see what kind of mac/phy schemes?

[yyzhuang]

Thanks George. I'm still exploring Gnu Radio. Since I'm a student in Computer
Science, I know very little about PHY and hardware, but our group will work
with Electrical Engineering people as well.

Hope to see the new mac blocks.
Y


George Nychis wrote:
> 
> There is currently no MAC layer support.  There has been some work in 
> supporting it through the new m-blocks, but I still believe there are 
> pieces missing for tightly timed CSMA MACs.  The timestamps are great 
> for TDMA, but CSMA is still kind of left in the dark.
> 
> I'm working on it as research right now.  I've implemented a CSMA and 
> TDMA MAC, but they're currently not available.  Hopefully I can wrap 
> them up by the end of August and release them.
> 
> - George
> 
> 
> yyzhuang wrote:
>> As I see from the simple manual and some source code, most of the blocks
>> are
>> designed for PHY layer or hard ware. Should all the MAC layer functions
>> implemented by python application, or are there any existing MAC layer
>> blocks we can use directly? Thanks for help.
>> 
>> Y
>> 
>> 
>> yyzhuang wrote:
>>> Thanks Jason. That's very helpful.
>>>
>>> I'm reading some example scripts in the gnuradio-examples folder, and
>>> particularly interested in the
>>> /gnuradio-examples/python/digital/tunnel.py. What we want to know is
>>> what
>>> MAC/PHY blocks gnu can provide us. Do you know in which directory under
>>> gnuradio-core we can find those MAC/PHY blocks?
>>>
>>> Thanks for help.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Y
>>>
>>>
>>> Jason Uher wrote:
>>>> Y,
>>>>
>>>>   Have you looked through the code available in in the
>>>> gnuradio-examples folder?  I t covers the basic of getting started
>>>> with the available blocks.
>>>>
>>>>   Also you might want to have a look at the simple gnuradio manual
>>>> which covers all of the available functions:
>>>>     
>>>> www.ece.jhu.edu/~cooper/SWRadio/Simple-Gnuradio-User-Manual-v1.0.pdf
>>>>
>>>>   If you downloaded (or checked out) the source, most of the code you
>>>> will want to look at is in the gnuradio-core folder.  Both the python
>>>> and C code is there so you can see how to instantiate things and how
>>>> to create blocks.  A good place to start would be the converter blocks
>>>> (ie, float_to_char), they are nice and simple.
>>>>
>>>>   Finally, if you want to write a MAC/PHY block for use with gnuradio
>>>> a good place to start would be be here (probably before you dive into
>>>> the code):
>>>> http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuradio/doc/howto-write-a-block.html
>>>>
>>>> Jason
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 12:07 AM, yyzhuang <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>> Please, I want to know about some details of blocks at
>>>>> MAC and PHY layer. E.g., what kind of MAC modules or blocks that gnu
>>>>> radio can provide us? I've read the tutorial here
>>>>> http://www.nd.edu/~jnl/sdr/docs/tutorials/9.html#tthFtNtAAB but I can
>>>>> not find what I want.
>>>>>
>>>>> Do you guys know whether there is any documentation about those
>>>>> blocks?
>>>>> Or
>>>>> would you kindly tell me where I can find them in the source code
>>>>> directory? Since I'm the only one in our group who is exploring gnu
>>>>> radio, it's difficult to read or search without help of others. Thanks
>>>>> for help.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> yyzhuang wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm a gnu radio newbie. Can anyone tell me how to see what kind of
>>>>>> mac/phy
>>>>>> schemes gnu radio comes with, and what is the capacity of gnu radio?
>>>>>> Is
>>>>>> there any documentation about this?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>> Y
>>>>>>
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