| 155 | | \item Built and run the waveform using the default\_GPP\_node. The each component outputs the number of antennas and MIMO method used. The RxDemo component outputs the number of erroneous bits. |
| 156 | | \item The AWGN noise power of 1225000 results to an SNR of approximately 16 dB (ignoring the fading aspect). At this level there should be severe error counts. |
| 157 | | \item Change the number (in all components) of receive antennas to 2, there should be an improvement in the number of errors, however, they are still severe. |
| 158 | | \item Now change the number of antennas to 8. There should be bursts of 0 errors and bursts of high number of errors. |
| 159 | | \end{enumerate} |
| 160 | | |
| 161 | | |
| | 159 | \item Built and run the waveform using the default\_GPP\_node. Each component outputs the number of antennas and MIMO method used. The RxDemo component outputs the number of erroneous bits. |
| | 160 | \item The AWGN noise power of 50000000 results to an SNR of approximately 3 dB (ignoring the fading aspect). At this level there should be several bursts of high error counts. |
| | 161 | \item Change the number (in all components) of receive antennas to 4, the frequency of high error count packets should be reduced. |
| | 162 | \item Now change the number of receive antennas to 8. Most packets should now have zero or near zero error counts. |
| | 163 | \item (Optional) change the number of receive antennas to 16, there should be no errors. |
| | 164 | \item For the last number of receive antennas, increase the noise power so that the error occurrence approximately matches what was observed in the first step. Try to estimate the SNR gain in dB when using the multiple antennas. Assume a signal power of $1\times10^8$. |
| | 165 | \end{enumerate} |
| 188 | | \item Built and run the waveform using the default\_GPP\_node. The each component outputs the number of antennas and MIMO method used. The RxDemo component outputs the number of erroneous bits. |
| 189 | | \item In this setup, the AWGN noise power of 1225000 results to an SNR of approximately 13 dB (ignoring the fading aspect). At this level there should burst of errors. |
| 190 | | \item Change the number (in all components) of receive antennas to 2, there frequency of the error bursts should be reduced. |
| 191 | | \item Now change the number of antennas to 8. The bursts of errors should be even sparser. |
| | 192 | \item Built and run the waveform using the default\_GPP\_node. Each component outputs the number of antennas and MIMO method used. The RxDemo component outputs the number of erroneous bits. |
| | 193 | \item In this setup, the AWGN noise power of 25000000 results to an SNR of approximately 3 dB (ignoring the fading aspect). At this level there should several bursts high error counts. |
| | 194 | \item Change the number (in all components) of receive antennas to 2, the frequency of the error high error bursts should be reduced and most error counts should be around 20 |
| | 195 | \item (Optional) change the number of receive antennas to 16, there should be mostly no errors |
| | 196 | \item For the last number of receive antennas, increase the noise power so that the error occurrence approximately matches what was observed in the first step. Try to estimate the SNR gain in dB when using the multiple antennas. Assume a signal power of $5\times10^7$. |
| | 197 | |
| 214 | | \item Built and run the waveform using the default\_GPP\_node. The each component outputs the number of antennas and MIMO method used. The RxDemo component outputs the number of erroneous bits. |
| 215 | | \item In this setup, the AWGN noise power of 24500 results to an SNR of approximately 30 dB (ignoring the fading aspect). At this level there should be a lot of burst of errors. |
| 216 | | \item Change the noise power to 2450 (40dB), the error occurrence should be now reduced. |
| | 220 | \item Built and run the waveform using the default\_GPP\_node. Each component outputs the number of antennas and MIMO method used. The RxDemo component outputs the number of erroneous bits. |
| | 221 | \item In this setup, the AWGN noise power of 25000 results to an SNR of approximately 33 dB (ignoring the fading aspect). At this level there should be a lot of high error bursts |
| | 222 | \item Change the noise power to 5000 (40dB), the error bursts occurrence should be now reduced |