I agree with you doug.  After reading through the BBN code, that seems like
why they did that.  DBPSK and DQPSK appear to be backward compatible
decoding wise.

I think the reason why you cannot transmit/decode DQPSK packets is that the
entire packet is encoded as DQPSK and not part DBPSK and part DQPSK.  The
decoding algorithm then fails.

--Thanks

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Doug Geiger <[email protected]> wrote:

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> Colby Boyer wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > So I am not too familiar with the history of how GNU-Radio has evolved
> > over the past few years and I am wondering what are the fundamental
> > differences between blks and blks2(old revisions vs new revisions)?
> >
> > A question I am asking is why did the BBN people who wrote the 802.11b
> > code make their own DPSK mod/demod and did not use the function blocks
> > provided by gnuradio?  Were those blocks simply not available at the
> time?
> >
> > Last question.  Has the functionality of teh the DB/QPSK modulations in
> > the blks2 library been tested? I'm in the process of cleaning up the
> > 802.11b code, and if I can relay on gnu-radio libraries, rather than
> > custom C++/python code, that would be better.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Colby
>
>  For the 802.11b code, I think part of the reasoning was that for
> providing 1 and 2Mbps service, the block needed to be able to switch
> rapidly between DBPSK and DQPSK (and the block would not know until the
> preamble was decoded), so they did both in parallel, and simply switched
> which output was actually used as needed. If any of the BBN folks are
> still on-list they may have more insight.
>  Doug
>
> - --
> Doug Geiger
> Research Assistant
> Communications and Signal Processing Lab
> Oklahoma State University
> [email protected]
> [email protected]
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