Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of Other/Summer/2024/pMA

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Jun 17, 2024, 7:39:37 PM (4 weeks ago)

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+== Programmable Metamaterial Antenna's For Physical Layer Security
 
-To be written soon!
+Members: Dylan Turner, Prachi Patel
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+Faculty advisors: 
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+== PROJECT OVERVIEW
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+== PROGRESS LOG
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+Week 1 (5/28 - 5/30)
+     - Began reading the research paper our project is based on, which details the fundamental aspects of our topic.
+     - We met with our mentor and began discussing topics in depth in regards to metamaterial antennas.
+     - We learned how to use Orbit and the command line arguments in order to connect the node along with turning it on and off. 
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+Week 2 (6/3 - 6/6)
+     - We learned the fundamentals of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM).
+     - We watched an Introduction to Linux presentation.
+     - We downloaded GNU Radio on our local devices.
+     - We experimented with creating basic flowgraphs.
+     - We completed a tutorial with our mentor involving Sandbox 2, transmitting and receiving OFDM signals from two Software Defined Radios.
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+Week 3 (6/10 - 6/13)
+     - We began looking into source code for the OFDM transmitter block that required modification.
+     - We learned how to output to file sink using GNURadio.
+     - We researched related topics as we came across them in the flowgraph, such as Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) which is essentially an 
+       error correction tool.
+     - We viewed outputs for each individual block as Hex or Binary data.
+     - Wrote a script to convert the complex number in Single precision IEEE 752 format to decimal using python.
+     - We tried to visualize the output of the OFDM Carrier allocator, but ran into issues because we cannot use custom python blocks on mac 
+       due to a bug.
+     - Modified the saving script to accept a second set of vectors as input which will multiply the OFDM carrier allocation output.
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