I successfully finished the MIMO channel estimator this week. The corresponding qa test is also finished and running. I therefore completed all elements which are required to build up the hierarchical python blocks of the MIMO encoder and decoder.
As planned for Week 8, YAML Generator has been added to the ModTool and the basic grc_xml template has been replaced with the grc_yaml template.
I implemented a MIMO channel estimator this week.
As planned for week 7, the logger has been updated with ANSI colors, the modtool tests have been updated with Pylint tests (currently errors only) and the issue with the rename module has been solved (PR has been submitted).
This week, I started with the last big milestone for this summer: The integration of the MIMO algorithms into an OFDM transceiver system.
As planned for Week 6, the modtool tests have been added in-tree and all the print statements have been replaced by the logger.
I expanded the 2×2 V-BLAST zero-forcing scheme to a general MxM scheme. For a general MxM matrix, the inverse cannot be precalculated by hand as I did for the 1×1 and 2×2 scheme. The inversion of a possibly large channel matrix can quickly get a very complex problem which needs a lot of computation power, especially if it is recalculated frequently, for example each micro second when assuming a coherence time of 1μs and therefore a CSI update rate of 1MHz.
Last week, I implemented a V-BLAST encoder which demultiplexes a data stream into M parallel streams that are simultaneously sent through the same channel. This was a really simple task which granted us a data rate increase of factor M without the need of a complex transmitter complexity.
The Core and the CLI splits!
