wiki:Tutorials/k0SDR/Tutorial05

Spectrum sensing with USRP2 and wiserd (OEDL and OML)

Table of Contents

  1. SDR Tutorials
    1. Working with USRP2 - Universal Software Radio Peripheral
      1. Description
      2. Hardware / Software Resources utilized
      3. Set up
      4. Usage
      5. Capture waveform and record to file & add time-domain plot of waveform
      6. Troubleshooting
    1. Working with USRP X310
      1. Description
      2. Hardware / Software Resources Utilized
      3. Set Up
        1. Imaging
        2. Accessing the Nodes
        3. Configuring the Network Interface
        4. Setting up GNU Radio
      4. Building the GNU Radio Flowgraphs
        1. Transmitter
        2. Receiver
      5. Running the Experiment
      6. Troubleshooting
        1. xterm Executable Not Found
        2. FPGA Compatibility Mismatch
    1. Simple radio example with GNURADIO benchmark scripts
      1. Description
      2. Hardware / Software Resources utilized
      3. Set up
      4. Running GNU Radio benchmark scripts
      5. Outputs from transmitter and receiver
      6. Troubleshooting
    1. Simple radio example with GNURADIO benchmark scripts (OEDL)
      1. Description
      2. Hardware / Software Resources utilized
      3. Set up
      4. Running OEDL script and viewing results
      5. OEDL script
    1. OFDM radio example with GNURADIO benchmark scripts
      1. Description
      2. Hardware / Software Resources utilized
      3. Set up
      4. Running OEDL script
    1. Spectrum sensing with USRP2 and wiserd
      1. Description
      2. Hardware / Software Resources utilized
      3. Set up
      4. Generate signal source file using octave
      5. Set up transmitting node
      6. Set up receiving node(s)
    1. Spectrum sensing with USRP2 and wiserd (OEDL and OML)
      1. Description
      2. Hardware / Software Resources utilized
      3. Transmit predefined tone
      4. Record spectrum data to an OML file
      5. Performing the experiment using OEDL
    1. Transmitting wideband signals using USRP X310 and wiserd
      1. Description
      2. Transmitting a signal using wiserd
      3. Creating the signal
    1. Running DSC match script from the grid console
    1. Working with GNURadio and Nutaq ZeptoSDR
      1. Description
      2. Set up
      3. Run the GRC scripts
    1. Realtek 2832 EZCap - A Frugal SDR
      1. Prereqs
      2. A cheap spectrum analyzer
    1. MacSwitch (Obsolete)
      1. Prerequisites
      2. Start Mac Switch
    1. Zynq-based WISER platform - Start-up test
      1. Description
      2. Hardware / Software Resources utilized
      3. Set up
      4. Loading the Zedboard
      5. Running a start up test
    1. Zynq-based WISER platform - Spectrum Sensing
      1. Description
      2. Hardware / Software Resources utilized
      3. Set up
      4. Start spectrum sensing
    1. Zynq-based WISER platform - Spectrum sensing with multiple nodes (OEDL)
      1. Description
      2. Hardware / Software Resources utilized
      3. Spectrum sensing with an OEDL script
    1. Zynq-based WISER platform - Building the Firmware
      1. Description
      2. Getting the FPGA source code
      3. Building the FPGA design
      4. Building ARM core software
    1. Nutaq - PicoSDR start-up and configuration
      1. Description
      2. Set up
      3. Launch demo scripts
    1. Multi channel sample collection with x310
      1. Description
      2. Set up
      3. Collect samples
    1. Getting started with RFNoC X310
      1. Description
      2. Set up
      3. Find USRP X310s
      4. Program the FPGA
    1. Multi Channel Sample Processing & Visualization
      1. Hardware / software resources utilized
      2. Receive multi channel signal for processing and plotting
      3. Transmit a signal using a single usrp
    2. Plot the IQ Constellation of received signal
      1. Multi-channel Uhd STreamer (MUST)
      2. Description
      3. How it works (without going into the source-code :-D
      4. Source code & compilation
      5. Hardware interface application
      6. XML file
      7. Command server
      8. Usage Example
      9. Signal handler applications
      10. Tutorials
    1. Using two RFNoC streams simultaneously on a single USRP device
      1. Description
      2. Set Up
      3. Running the Simulation
    1. Using 2 transmit or 2 receive antennas simultaneously
      1. Description
      2. Set Up
      3. Running the Experiment
    1. Generate random transmissions emulating Primary Transmitters
      1. Description
      2. Set Up
      3. Running the Experiment
    1. RFNoC Spectrum Sensing
      1. Description
      2. Set Up
        1. Prepare Receive Node
        2. Prepare Receive USRPs
        3. Prepare Transmit Node
        4. Prepare Transmit USRP
        5. Set up SSH tunnel from your local port 5100 to grid.orbit-lab.org:5100
        6. Set up a web proxy for the receive node
      3. Run the experiment
    1. Full-Duplex Wireless using USRP N210
      1. Description
        1. Technical Report
        2. Updates
      2. Hardware / Software Resources Utilized
      3. Set Up
      4. Run the Experiments
      5. Example Experiment 1: A Real-Time Full-Duplex Radio with OFDM PHY (GNU …
      6. Example Experiment 2: A Simple Full-Duplex Radio Experiment (Terminal …
        1. In Terminal 1
          1. In Terminal 2 (SUB-20)
        2. A Secondary Transmitter Using Node13-8
        3. Acknowledgements
    1. LTE Traffic Trace Collection
      1. Description
      2. Setup OAI emulation framework
      3. Connecting UE to LTE network
      4. Connecting Multiple UEs
      5. Enabling OAI logging Module
      6. Application Design
      7. Running OAI using scripts
    1. Simple Radio Example with USRP X310 on ORBIT Sandbox 2
      1. Description
      2. Set Up
        1. Prepare the nodes
        2. Prepare network setup for USRP access
      3. Run the experiment
    1. Wideband Channel Sounding with USRP X310s
      1. Description
      2. Set Up
        1. Prepare Receive Node
        2. Prepare Receive USRPs
        3. Prepare Transmit Node
        4. Prepare Transmit USRP
        5. Set up SSH tunnel from your local port 5100 to grid.orbit-lab.org:5100
        6. Set up a web proxy for the receive node
      3. Run the experiment

Description

We'll use the nodes on sandbox 3 to transmit a predefined waveform and receive the spectrum data into an OML file.

Hardware / Software Resources utilized

  1. Grid nodes with a USRP2 connect via Ethernet.
  2. baseline-sdr.ndz: disk image loaded onto nodes.
  3. Wiserd - interface to configure and stream data to/from USRPs.

Transmit predefined tone

To get started load baseline-sdr.ndz onto node1-1 and node1-2. Then turn both nodes on.

Set up node1-1 to configure transmit a predefined sine wave

node1-1> wiserd
> --uhd_tx_freq 700e6 --uhd_tx_rate 5e6 --uhd_tx_gain 20
> --tran_wavetype SINE --tran_wavefreq 1e6 --tran_amplitude 0.5
> --addmodule waveform

At this point the node1-1 should be transmitting a tone at 1MHz from the 700MHz center frequency. From node1-2, use the UHD spectrum utility to verify the waveform

node1-2> cd uhd/host/build/examples/
node1-2> ./rx_ascii_art_dft --freq 700e6 --rate 5e6 --gain 20 --ref-lvl -40

Record spectrum data to an OML file

Now let's use wiserd to record this spectrum data into a local

node1-2> wiserd
> --uhd_rx_freq 700e6 --uhd_rx_rate 5e6 --uhd_rx_gain 20 --recv_running_time 2000
> --recv_numbins 256 --recv_avgwinlen 5 --recv_oml_servername file --recv_oml_output_type vector
> --addmodule fftmovingavgoml --timed

Wiserd should record spectrum data to file for 2000ms and then stop recording.

The recorded file can ve very large so a short snippet is shown below

protocol: 5
domain: spectrum
start-time: 1432751617
sender-id:
app-name: spectrum
schema: 0 _experiment_metadata subject:string key:string value:string
schema: 1 _client_instrumentation measurements_injected:uint32 measurements_dropped:uint32 bytes_allocated:uint64 bytes_freed:uint64 bytes_in_use:uint64 bytes_max:uint64
schema: 2 spectrum_data sampling:int32 cfreq_MHz:double gain_dB:int32 FFTLength:int32 FFTNum:string FFTBins:[double]
content: text

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Performing the experiment using OEDL

OEDL can be used to automatically perform the experiment. The OEDL code for the experiment is shown below.

defProperty('rx_freq', "800e6", "")
defProperty('rx_rate', "5e6", "")
defProperty('rx_gain', "20", "")
defProperty('recv_oml_output_type', "vector", "")
defProperty('recv_oml_servername', "file", "")
defProperty('tx_freq', "798e6", "")
defProperty('tx_rate', "5e6", "")
defProperty('tx_gain', "20", "")
defProperty('tx_module', "foo", "") # using a random name for an unexisting module
defProperty('rx_module', "foo", "") # so that no module is started, but it can be added later by setting this property
defProperty('del_rx_module', "foo", "")

require './wiserd.rb'

defGroup('sender', "node1-1") do |node|
  node.addApplication("test:app:wiserd") do |app|
    app.setProperty('--uhd_tx_freq', property.tx_freq)
    app.setProperty('--uhd_tx_rate', property.tx_rate)
    app.setProperty('--uhd_tx_gain', property.tx_gain)
    app.setProperty('--addmodule', property.tx_module)
  end
end

defGroup('receiver', "node1-2") do |node|
  node.addApplication("test:app:wiserd") do |app|
    app.setProperty('--uhd_rx_freq', property.rx_freq)
    app.setProperty('--uhd_rx_rate', property.rx_rate)
    app.setProperty('--uhd_rx_gain', property.rx_gain)
    app.setProperty('--recv_oml_output_type', property.recv_oml_output_type)
    app.setProperty('--recv_oml_servername', property.recv_oml_servername)
    app.setProperty('--addmodule', property.rx_module)
    app.setProperty('--delmodule', property.del_rx_module)
  end
end

onEvent(:ALL_UP_AND_INSTALLED) do |event|
  wait 10
  info "Starting the Receiver" 
  group("receiver").startApplications
  info "Starting the Sender"
  group("sender").startApplications
  wait 8
  property.tx_module = "waveform"
  property.rx_module = "fftmovingavgoml"
  for i in 798..802
    property.tx_freq = "#{i}e6"
    wait 1
  end
  property.del_rx_module = "fftmovingavgoml"
  group("sender").stopApplications
  group("receiver").stopApplications
  Experiment.done
end

This experiment consists of a receiver centered at 800 MHz, with the bandwidth of 5 MHz, and the transmitter that runs for 5 seconds, transmitting a SINE waveform centered at frequencies of 798, 799, 800, 801 and 802 MHz for 1 second each. The code needs to be saved in a file named experiment.rb. It's assumed that the Wiserd application definition for OEDL is available in the file named wiserd.rb. After imaging the nodes and making sure they are turned on, the experiment can be run using the command

omf exec experiment.rb

When the experiment is finished, the receiver will save the results in a file located at the / directory. The file can then be transferred to a local machine for further processing. For example, the results can be plotted using a simple octave script shown below:

w = dlmread('file', ' ', 10, 1);

i = 1;
while (i <= size(w,1))
  if (max(abs(w(i, :))) == 0)
    w(i,:) = [];
  end
  i = i + 1;
end
imagesc(10*log(w/1000.0))

For the described experiment, octave will then produce the image shown below.

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