Group #

11

Week ending:

(Saturday)

02/25/06

Report #

6

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

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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 the matlab code was ready. We looked over it briefly with Nilay to make sure that it was running. We took data for a few seconds and saw that we were getting the correct PSD graphs and measurement graphs for a Cingular GSM signal between 874 MHz and 879 MHz.

· Since it was just a set-up meeting we only collected data for the Cellular bands with COM block 3005. In the future, when we want to look at the PCS bands we will be using COM block 3006. We will be taking data for minutes at a time in different locations. Initially, we’re going to start in the Wireless Research Laboratory.

· Nilay also made a suggestion that we create a front-end interface using a simple program like Visual Basic. This way, when we can type our desired frequency range into the prompt instead of going through the matlab code to change it.

· Next week, hopefully Tuesday, we will be starting our first official round of data. We chose to start next week so that we could use the remainder of this week to familiarize ourselves with the code provided to us by WinSec.

· We won’t be saving all of the data so an external drive will be sufficient to store our data. We don’t think there will be any need to purchase a DVD burner.

· We also talked briefly about the interim report, when it’s due, and what we plan to include in it. Also, the website has been updated with a lot more links that were very helpful to us in our research phase.