Streaming buffer underrun with multiple signals

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Hello,

I’m encountering an issue when conducting simulations with multiple signals—whether it involves using one RF signal with another as interference, or managing GNSS Upper L-Band and Lower L-Band signals on separate GPUs, especially when the combined Sampling Rate exceeds 25 MSps. This leads to a Streaming buffer underrun problem.

Below are the specifications of the PC tower being used:

  • Skydel version: 23.5.1,
  • Operating System: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS,
  • Output configuration: X300 (1G ETH),
  • GPUs: RTX 4000 (6144 CUDA Cores) and RTX A4000 (2304 CUDA Cores). Performance tests for both setups yielded satisfactory results:
    • for Two frequencies (L1C and L2C) a score of 10.85
    • For interference (L1C/A + Galileo E1 and interference on L1C/A) a score of 8.88

I’ve reviewed past discussions on similar issues:

Upon checking the multiple CPU core performance, I found no issues: :

Despite adjusting the USRP Frame Size to 8000 Bytes, MTU to 9014 Bytes, Engine Latency to 500ms, and Streaming buffer to 1000ms, the issue persists.

I am unable to upload the performance.csv file to this discussion in order to show further details.

Any idea on how I can resolve this issue ?

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Hi @Zaynab,

As you can see from the performance graph you sent a screenshot of, the Streamer is not able to keep up with the simulation. Can you try the 10G ETH port of the X300, I believe this could be the issue.

Best,
Mathieu

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