Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Transmitting bursts with GRC by inserting SOB and EOB

[Nowlan, Sean]

>From Marcus:
> ... and that (wut) might be a bug, because it implies that, if the stream has 
> both a time tag and a sob tag, the 
> question whether the tx metadata has a time tag depends on in which order 
> these tags are sorted on the the
> tag storage multimap. Which might be random, because tags are sorted only by 
> tag offset.
> @Martin: is there a reason that this is explicitely set to false here, or can 
> one just fix this by deleting a line?

This appears to be handled correctly. Given the same tag offset, the order of 
tx_time vs. tx_sob tags should not matter. If tx_time is found first, it sets 
found_time_tag=true and _metadata.has_time_spec=true (lines 652 & 653). Then 
_metadata.has_time_spec is overwritten in the tx_sob check (line 665) with 
'false', but is set back to 'true'  in line 743 due to found_time_tag being 
true.

      if (found_time_tag) {
        _metadata.has_time_spec = true;
      }

If instead tx_sob is found first and tx_time second, then the time spec will 
also be set in line 743. So the question is whether setting 
_metadata.has_time_spec=false is really necessary. I'd say it's worth keeping 
in case the user doesn't always want to use tx_time stamps. The user may want 
to schedule some bursts but force others to transmit as soon as possible while 
still using the ATR functionality of the USRP. 

I know all this logic can be hard to follow, but it has to handle so many 
different cases and possibly span many calls to work and tag_work. 

>From Frederik:
> Unfortunately, even with the newest version the USRP is still transmitting 
> its carrier over the air. I tried both with
> the Message Burst Source as well as with the Stream to Tagged Stream Block 
> combined with setting a Length Tag
> name in the USRP Sink. With the Tag Debug Block I see tx_sob+tx_eob and the 
> Length Tag, respectively. They all
> seem to be at the right place and have the right value.
> 
> The Length Tag should arrive properly at the Sink. I checked by changing the 
> tag's name at the Stream to Tagged 
> Stream Block to something stupid and finally got an "tG" printed out.

It should be mentioned that there are two burst tag interfaces that cannot be 
mixed. if a Length Tag Name is specified to the constructor, all tx_sob and 
tx_eob tags will be ignored in tag_work to ensure the interfaces are mutually 
exclusive. If no Length Tag Name is specified, then tag_work will search for 
tx_sob/tx_eob tags and won't look for length tags.

Sean

On 21.10.2014 15:53, Frederik Wing wrote:
> Hi Marcus,
>>>> I cannot believe that there is no solution to it since the 
>>>> "tags_demo" application shows that it is indeed possible.
>>>> :-/
>> that makes the two of us! I didn't get that when using tags_demo, 
>> you're not seeing the carrier that you use tags_demo; as far as I 
>> understood, your application does exactly the same, sending bursts 
>> with sob/eob tags?
> 
> That's right. tags_demo works perfectly. No carrier in between the 
> bursts. The flow graph I posted before sends exactly one burst with 
> SOB and EOB tags. The only difference to tags_demo I could recognize 
> so far is that I don't assign time stamps to the samples.
> But this shouldn't be a problem, should it?
> 
> Frederik
> 
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