[Discuss-gnuradio] Looking for 802.11 MAC & PHY Package

[Zhang, Jiayi]

Dear Marcus and all,

Many thanks for the advice regarding the Hydra and ORBIT project.

Actually I'm looking for the open-source 802.11 PHY&MAC packages which are compatible with Recent GNU Radio and USRP N210/X310.

I've searched from internet and got some findings listed below:

1) Hydra PHY & MAC from University of Texas at Austin [1]

2) FTW IEEE802.11a/g/p OFDM Frame Encoder [2]

3) UWICORE m-HOP 802.11 MAC for USRP based on the FTW PHY [3]

http://www.uwicore.umh.es/mhop-software.html

*** All (1-3) only compatible with gnuradio-3.2.2 which was too many years ago.

4) WIME IEEE 802.11a/g/p Transceiver for GNU Radio v3.7 [3]

http://www.ccs-labs.org/software/gr-ieee802-11/

*** This is a most recent package for gnuradio 3.7, but is PHY only. Are there any MAC package which compatible with this WIME PHY?

5) ORBIT Project [5]

*** This is a huge project which can be studied. Are there any project provide both 802.11 MAC & PHY like Hydrd did before?

Best regards,

Jiayi

[1] K. Mandke, Soon-Hyeok Choi, Gibeom Kim, R. Grant, R. Daniels, Wonsoo Kim, R. W. Heath, Jr., and S. Nettles, “Early Results on Hydra: A Flexible MAC/PHY Multihop Testbed,” Proc. of IEEE Vehicular Tech. Conf. , pp. 1896-1900, Dublin, Ireland, April 23 – 25, 2007.

[2] http://www.cgran.org/wiki/ftw80211ofdmtx

[3] J.R. Gutierrez-Agullo, B. Coll-Perales and J. Gozalvez, "An IEEE 802.11 MAC Software Defined Radio Implementation for Experimental Wireless Communications and Networking Research", Proceedings of the 2010 IFIP/IEEE Wireless Days (WD'10), 20-22 October 2010, Venice (Italy).

[4] Bastian Bloessl, Michele Segata, Christoph Sommer and Falko Dressler, "An IEEE 802.11a/g/p OFDM Receiver for GNU Radio," Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2013, 2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop of Software Radio Implementation Forum (SRIF 2013), Hong Kong, China, August 2013, pp. 9-16.

[5] http://www.orbit-lab.org/

On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Marcus Müller <address@hidden> wrote:

Yes. Nothing in GNU Radio or UHD (the USRP driver framework) is
distribution-specific, so transition from Ubuntu to Fedora should not be
a problem

Good luck with finding a "new version" of Hydra; I didn't find any
publication after 2009 on a quick first glance on google scholar[1]. And
I couldn't find the source code anywhere. Honestly: If you don't find
anything that proves otherwise, I'd presume that Hydra is kind of dead
[2]. Please prove me wrong on this!

There is the ORBIT lab that has come up with a rather comprehensive
infrastructure for wireless testbeds, so you might want to look at that[3].

Greetings,
Marcus

[1]
http://scholar.google.de/scholar?q=%22Robert+W.+Heath%22+hydra&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&as_ylo=2010&as_yhi=
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0yXqU-w9U0
[3] http://www.orbit-lab.org/
On 09.10.2014 16:41, Zhang, Jiayi wrote:
> Hi Marcus,

>
> Another question is that, if we development the software with GNU Radio and
> USRP in Ubuntu, is it easy to transfer to Fedora?

Thanks for your reply. I think the best way to us is to find the new
version of Hydra package which is based on the recent GNU Radio version
working with current USRP produces.

> Many thanks!
>
> Regards,
> Jiayi
>
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Marcus Müller <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>
>>  Hello Jiayi,
>>
>> 3.2.2 is *very* ancient. In fact, it's older than my involvement with GNU
>> Radio, and I think it will be very hard to find someone how's still using
>> it, so asking for experience, I'm afraid, is not going to yield a lot of
>> responses in 2014.
>> Therefore, it will be nearly impossible to recreate an environment with
>> all the GNU Radio dependencies that match the needs of GNU Radio 3.2.2.
>>
>> I'm not familiar with Hydra itself; but if it uses GR 3.2.2 you won't be
>> able to use it with modern USRPs, you won't have much fun developing new
>> applications for it, and in total it might be wise to look if you can
>> either find a suitable substitute or port it to a modern GNU Radio.
>>
>> However, I'm optimistic that someone else here has used Hydra, and maybe
>> he has some more specific hints than I do.
>>
>> Greetings,
>> Marcus
>>
>>
>> On 08.10.2014 16:50, Zhang, Jiayi wrote:
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I'm a beginner of GNURadio but I'm familiar with some basis of Linux when I
>> use C++ & IT++. Currently I'm trying to test the Hydra-0.4 package for
>> evaluation under the last ubuntu ver 14.04.1 32bit. During the installation
>> of gnuradio-3.2.2, there is an error which I cannot find the solution on
>> internet.
>>
>> gnuradio-3.2.2$ ./bootstrap && ./configure --prefix=$GR
>> …
>> checking for boost >= 1.35... yes
>> checking whether the boost::thread includes are available... yes
>> configure: error: Could not link against libboost_thread!
>>
>> ‘libboost-all-dev’ has already installed, including ‘libboost-thread-dev’,
>> I tried both version 1.54 and 1.55 of libboost. I've also searched the
>> error message in Google, even after I installed the 'build-essential'
>> package, the error remains the same.
>>
>> I will be much appreciated if any of you have such an experience and would
>> feedback some solutions.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jiayi (Vincent)
>>
>>
>>
>>
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