802.11 Reference Design Experiments Framework: Continuous Log Capture Example

This example of the Experiments Framework provides an interactive script for initializing one WARP v3 node then continuously retrieves the node's latest log data, eventually writing the data to an HDF5 file.

This script is ideal for capturing a log file with Tx and Rx events recorded from Wi-Fi clients using the 802.11 Reference Design AP or STA.

To use this script:

• Setup wlan_exp (see Getting Started for details)
• Configure one WARP v3 node using the 802.11 Reference Design AP bitstream or 802.11 Reference Design STA bitstream
• Open the file in a text editor and change the NODE_SERIAL_LIST to match your serial numbers
• Open a command prompt
• CD to the Python_Reference/examples/log directory from the expanded 802.11 Reference design archive
• Run python log_capture_continuous.py
• After running this script you can analyze the log file using the wlan_exp log tools. Refer to the txrx_log analysis examples to get started processing your log file.

The script will run until you type either 'q', 'quit' or press 'Ctrl-C' and then write the log file:

Initializing experiment

Resetting the network config for all nodes on subnet 10.0.0.
Initializing W3-a-00006 as Node 0

Run Experiment:

Use 'q' or Ctrl-C to end the experiment.

  NOTE:  In IPython, press return to see status update.

Adding current time to log for nodes on 10.0.0
Duration:        29 sec     Log Size:    Node 0      =   33674352 bytes
Writing      33,826,672 bytes of data to log file interactive_capture.hdf5...
Duration:        63 sec     Log Size:    Node 0      =   37045456 bytes
Writing       3,273,724 bytes of data to log file interactive_capture.hdf5...
Duration:        94 sec     Log Size:    Node 0      =   39853048 bytes
Writing       2,889,528 bytes of data to log file interactive_capture.hdf5...
Duration:       124 sec     Log Size:    Node 0      =   42016812 bytes
Writing       2,080,208 bytes of data to log file interactive_capture.hdf5...
Duration:       154 sec     Log Size:    Node 0      =   43277292 bytes
Writing       1,210,660 bytes of data to log file interactive_capture.hdf5...
Duration:       184 sec     Log Size:    Node 0      =   44526360 bytes
Writing       1,252,112 bytes of data to log file interactive_capture.hdf5...
Duration:       215 sec     Log Size:    Node 0      =   44908556 bytes
Writing         382,368 bytes of data to log file interactive_capture.hdf5...
Duration:       245 sec     Log Size:    Node 0      =   48794684 bytes
Writing       3,932,016 bytes of data to log file interactive_capture.hdf5...
Duration:       257 sec     Log Size:    Node 0      =   49611448 bytes     q

Ending experiment


Writing         768,300 bytes of data to log file log_continuous_capture.hdf5...
Final log size:       49,615,588 bytes
Done.

Experiment Finished.

NOTE: By default, the script will try to use the file name: log_continuous_capture.hdf5. You are free to override this behavior on the command line: python log_capture_interactive.py <my_file_name>. This script will write the log file to your current directory.

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Source: the script is included in the 802.11 Reference Design archive at Python_Reference/examples/log/log_capture_continuous.py.