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How
could your project be extended/improved in the future?
At
the moment the project has great potential to be improved
upon. The highly flexible nature of software defined radio
allows for nearly limitless expansion and inclusion of unique
concepts that have not yet been thought of. Our project goal
was to create an intelligent system that communicates wireless
over the best channel conditions in the neighborhood of a
particular frequency. While we have made plenty of progress,
there are still numerous drawbacks to our design. Areas which
could be immediately improved upon are hardware design, increased
data rate, and a better means of detecting noise and interference.
Are
there any new project ideas that came up (even if entirely
different from your current project, describe)?
Numerous
new project ideas were discussed during the course of the
project, since we weren't entirely sure what capabilities
we were going to be able to implement. A significant project
idea was the porting of the software over to Linux, which
would make it more useful to the private industry as well
as expose the project to the open source community which could
lead to improved development and assistance with particular
problems. The other significant idea was the development of
a similar system using VHDL so that it could be implemented
on a single FPGA, thus reducing hardware costs and size.
The
list of useful sources and contacts are as follows:
Prof.
Yu-Dong Yao: Senior
design advisor and director of the project. Professor Yao
provided requests and ideas of how the system should behave.
He also provided funding and presented our work to the project
sponsors.
Nishant
Kumar:
Graduate student, project supervisor. We worked alongside
Nishant on the project. He provided us with a significant
amount of assistance and proved to be most valuable as far
as achieving the project goals was concerned.
Vanu
Inc:
Sponsor. Vanu is a company on the leading edge of Software
defined radio research. They have been making a number of
highly significant breakthroughs with regard to bringing software
defined radio devices to the cellular telephone market.
NSF:
Sponsor. The National Science Foundation is a government funded
research group conducting work in a multitude of areas, software
defined radio being one of them.
WiNSeC:
Sponsor: The wireless Security Network Security Center is
a cutting edge wireless technology testbed.
WiseLab:
Facilities provider. All work on the project was conducted
in the Wireless Research Lab, 2nd Floor, Burchard building.
Flexradio:
Flexradio provided us with the hardware and open source software
that forms the basis of our work. Their work and products
form the cornerstone of our project.
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