Changes between Version 41 and Version 42 of Hardware/bDomains/cSandboxes/dSB4


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    4 As shown in Figure 1, sandbox 4 consists of 10 nodes and two LTE and two WiMAX basestations and corresponding BS controllers. To prevent interference, each node is housed in [http://www.ramseytest.com/ Ramsey Electronics RF enclosure] that provides 80 dB of isolation. Each of the 9 nodes is equipped with a pair of WiFi devices: one Atheros 5000X mini-PCI card and one Intel 6250 mini-PCIe 802.11/802.16. 4 nodes are also equipped with [wiki:Hardware/fDevices/cSDR/gUSRP#USRPB205  USRP B205mini-i] SDR devices. All of the antenna ports of in each node are connected to a power combiner and fed through the enclosure access port to the outside SMA connector which is wired to one of the input/output ports of the [http://www.jfwindustries.com/documents/50PMA-012_specsheet.pdf  RF Transceiver Test System] from [http://www.jfwindustries.com JFW Industries]. This configuration enables fairly tight control of RF attenuation matrix between the nodes. Four of the RF test system ports are shared between nodes and basestations (node1-1 and node1-2 are sharing their port with LTE baestations while node1-8 and node1-9 are sharing their ports with WiMAX basestations). The topology (including pairwise attenuation between ports and selection switches for node/basestation) is controlled through the [http://omf.mytestbed.net OMF] based [wiki:/Software/eAM/mInstr Instrumentation AM].
     4As shown in Figure 1, sandbox 4 consists of 10 nodes and two LTE and two WiMAX basestations and corresponding BS controllers. To prevent interference, each node is housed in [http://www.ramseytest.com/ Ramsey Electronics RF enclosure] that provides 80 dB of isolation. Each of the 9 nodes is equipped with a pair of !WiFi devices: one Atheros 5000X mini-PCI card and one Intel 6250 mini-PCIe 802.11/802.16. The antenna ports of the !WiFi adapter in each node are attenuated (-15dB) and connected to a power combiner (-6dB) before being fed through the enclosure access port to the outside SMA connector which is wired to one of the input/output ports of the [http://www.jfwindustries.com/documents/50PMA-012_specsheet.pdf  RF Transceiver Test System] from [http://www.jfwindustries.com JFW Industries]. Four nodes are also equipped with [wiki:Hardware/fDevices/cSDR/gUSRP#USRPB205  USRP B205mini-i] SDR devices with their TX/RX and RX2 ports selectively connectable to the attenuator matrix as shown in the diagram below. This configuration enables fairly tight control of RF attenuation between the nodes. The topology (including pairwise attenuation between ports and selection switches for !WiFi/SDR) is controlled through the [http://omf.mytestbed.net OMF] based [wiki:/Software/eAM/mInstr Instrumentation AM].
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    8 As can be seen in figure 1, there are a total of nine (9) input/output ports on the transceiver test system. The first 7 input/output ports are connected to nodes 1 thru 7, respectively while the 8th and 9th input/output ports are connect to  either nodes 1-8 and 19 or the two Wimax base stations (BS1 and BS2). The selection of devices attached to ports 8 and 9 is controlled by the ''selDevice'' command of the [wiki:/Software/eAM/mInstr Instrumentation AM] service.
     8As can be seen in the figure above, there are a total of nine (9) input/output ports on the transceiver test system. By default, the ports are connected to the nodes' !WiFi adapters. Alternatively, the SDR of node1-3, node1-4, node1-5, and node1-6 can be connected to the matrix in place of the !WiFi adapters. The selection of devices attached to ports 1 through 8 is controlled by the ''selDevice'' command of the [wiki:/Software/eAM/mInstr Instrumentation AM] service.
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    10  || RF Test System Port || Attached device ||
    11  || 1 || node1-1 ||
    12  || 2 || node1-2 ||
    13  || 3 || node1-3 ||
    14  || 4 || node1-4 ||
    15  || 5 || node1-5 ||
    16  || 6 || node1-6 ||
    17  || 7 || node1-7 ||
    18  || 8 || node1-8 or wimax BS1 ||
    19  || 9 || node1-9 or wimax BS2 ||
     10 ||= '''RF Test System Port''' =||= '''Default Device''' =||= '''Alternative Device''' =||
     11 ||  1  || node1-1 !WiFi || node1-3 SDR TX/RX ||
     12 ||  2  || node1-2 !WiFi || node1-3 SDR RX2 ||
     13 ||  3  || node1-3 !WiFi || node1-4 SDR TX/RX ||
     14 ||  4  || node1-4 !WiFi || node1-4 SDR RX2 ||
     15 ||  5  || node1-5 !WiFi || node1-5 SDR TX/RX ||
     16 ||  6  || node1-6 !WiFi || node1-5 SDR RX2 ||
     17 ||  7  || node1-7 !WiFi || node1-6 SDR TX/RX ||
     18 ||  8  || node1-8 !WiFi || node1-6 SDR RX2 ||
     19 ||  9  || node1-9 !WiFi || ||
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    2121This configuration creates two distinct set of RF paths that are used to create various topologies.