Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] power control when packets transmitting

[Eric Blossom]

On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 08:42:41AM -0400, KC Huang wrote:
> Hi:
>  
> My recent research project focuses on how to implement CogNet on
> GNUradio platform. As u know, the concept of cognitive radio is that
> the parameters can be adjusted according to different
> situations. Such as controlling power, switching freq and modulation
> when the packets are transmitting. But I am not sure if GNUradio
> platform can adjust these parameters in the middle of tranmission. I
> searched previous threads and found that metadata structure can do
> that because of pipeline transmission. Are there any ways to adjust
> parameters without using mblock format because I don't think mblock
> is mature now?

Yes it can.  Just call the exported interfaces for the blocks in
question.  On a related topic, I'll be adding an mblock-interoperable
"message receive" method to GNU Radio blocks, so that you'll be able to
thread-safely send and receive messages in GNU Radio code.  The
runtime system will ensure that the message receive code is only
called when you're NOT in the work method.

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> I appreciate any suggestions!
> Thanks!!
>  
> KC Huang 

Eric