Hi Timothée, hi Haaris,

is it OK if I paste the answer to the question on StackOverflow?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34096116/gnu-radio-dqpsk-bit-error-rate

Best regards,
Marcus

On 05.12.2015 22:38, Timothée COCAULT wrote:
> Le sam. 5 déc. 2015 à 20:42, Haaris <[email protected]> a écrit :
>> Hello
>> Almost a month ago i started working on a digital communications project
>> which involves GNUradio.
>> And I am severely struggling to get past some errors or mismatches I am
>> encountering in GNUradio.
>> I am desperately in need of some expert help.
>> I made a DQPSK modulator and demodulator using GRC. ( screenshots
>> provided )
>> Gave a vector source with bits 0,1,0,1 and repeat on, on the input of
>> psk modulator.
>> I also used an error rate block to calculate bit error rate.
>> Now almost everything that is appearing on the scopes is completely
>> wrong.
>>
>> The bit error rate is 0.5, provided that i have added no noise.(which is
>> max considering that we will recover 50 percent bits correctly just by
>> chance).
>> The scope at the psk modulator output shows four constellation points
>> even though i am transmitting only one symbol i.e (0,1).
>>
>> What am i doing wrong?
>> Can someone please be kind enough to go through the screenshots and tell
>> me the mistake(s).
>> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>> Thanks in advance.
>
> Hi Haaris,
>
> The documentation of the PSK Mod says : "The input is a byte stream
> (unsigned char), treated as a series of packed symbols. Symbols are
> grouped from MSB to LSB."
> You should add an "Unpacked to Packed block" with 2 bits per chunk and
> MSB endianness before.
> Likewise, you should add a "Pack K bits" block with K=2 after the PSK
> Demod.
>
> Also, your assumption that you should have one point in the
> constellation sink is wrong. 
> You're using DQPSK so the (0, 1) symbol will add 90 degrees to the
> phase, and you will cycle through the 4 points of your constellation.
>
> And last, keep in mind that each block has a delay, and you can't
> compare the input and output bits directly.
> Try to use a "Scope plot" with 2 inputs, and add a delay block before
> the input bits to synchronise the two.
>
>
> Timothée.
>
>
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