Group #

11

Week ending: (Saturday)

03/11/06

Report #

8

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:

40

Is project on schedule?

Yes

[ X ]

No

[ ]

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 set up the COMblocks for the cellular band with a frequency range of 870MHz to 879 MHz. We also compiled the Matlab code.

· We are having some hardware issues. We are able to get both the COMblocks and the code to work individually, but not together.

· Using the COMblock Control Center program, both the NYU and Stevens network is able to locate the COMblocks. Also, we know that the Matlab code is working because when we run it, it says "comblock not found" and that's due to us not having the COMblock connected. However, when we try to search for the COMblocks with the Matlab code and the COMblock Control Center together it says "COM1 timed out, COM2 timed out, etc." We're currently working hard to fix this problem. Once we get over this hurdle, we'll be able to, hopefully, collect some significant data.

· This week we also began working on the interim report. We have our Gantt chart and financial analysis complete, as well as all the important details we want to include about our progress. Now, we just have to put it all together and that shouldn't be a problem.

· The website has also been updated. We have more links on it as well as pictures of our COMblocks. The pictures are very clear. In the future, we want to put more details as to what each individual COMblock does and label all of the major connections.