[Discuss-gnuradio] full daughterboard support added to in-band code & in-band update

[George Nychis]

Hi all,

Thanks to Eric, Jonathan, Tom, and whoever else worked on the C++ 
daughterboard code, we now have full daughterboard support for the 
in-band project.  I only have BasicTX/RX and RFX2400 which I tested. If 
anyone wants to test others I would greatly appreciate it.

I have made modifications to usrp_usb_interface in usrp/host/lib/inband 
for the support, which are now checked in to the trunk.

You can specify a center frequency by adding an rf-freq element in the 
usrp_dict dictionary in any of the applications, for example to use 2.45G:
  pmt_dict_set(usrp_dict, pmt_intern("rf-freq"), pmt_from_long(2450e6));

It already exists in each of the applications, but is now commented out 
so that it picks a frequency based on your daughterboard.  If no 
frequency is specified by rf-freq, it picks the frequency at the middle 
of the frequency range of the daughterboard (default).

Also, we made a ton of additional enhancements to the in-band project 
for MAC protocol support that we describe in a paper which was recently 
accepted by NSDI.  We will be bug testing these enhancements and pushing 
them in to CGRAN over the next two months.  This will allow you to build 
fine-grained CSMA and TDMA protocols, but are limited to using GMSK 
until the in-band project gets some integration with standard GNU Radio 
blocks.

We are also making changes to the architecture to support a full switch 
of the MAC layer on the fly.  For example, switching from TDMA to CSMA. 
 The first application for this is going to be a 2 channel radio (2 
daughterboards), where 1 channel is used for monitoring (e.g., 
congestion: let's switch MACs) and coordination (e.g., switch to MAC X), 
while the 2nd channel is a data channel.  This still needs a decent 
amount of work.

- George