Group #

11

Week ending:

(Saturday)

02/04/06

Report #

3

Project Title:

Distributed RF Measurement in GSM

Group Leader:

Michelle Teixeira

Advisor:

Prof. Tureli

Sponsor/Client:

Total number of person-hours spent on project by group during past week:

Is project on schedule?

Yes

[ X ]

[ ]

Weekly status:

Include discussion of what you accomplished this week, who you contacted, what decisions were made, what obstacles were identified, how they are being addressed.

· This week we had another group meeting in the Wireless Research Lab. We're going to focus on three GSM Providers (Cingular, T-mobile, and Sprint). We're in the process of researching their licensed bands. It's a bit more challenging than we thought. We also began discussing the system design. We talked about the possibility of placing one COM block in the library, another in the HOWE center, and the third inside WINsec.

· When the code is complete, which should be by the end of February, we will take data to see if our selections are optimal (not too much noise). If not, then we will reposition the COM blocks.

· This upcoming Tuesday we are going to have another meeting with Prof. Tureli to discuss our preliminary system design.

· In addition, we will be looking at our COM blocks to study our limits, to decide for how long we should take data (i.e. days or hours) so that we can ideally design a good system.

· By the end of next week, we should have our chosen spectrum frequencies and our system design almost complete.