A Brief Introduction to PicoScenes

A 2 page paper submitted to EWSN'2019 demo session

Posted on December 28, 2018
I decide to release PicoScenes system in the first half of 2019. So I wrote a 2-page introductory paper for PicoScenes, and submitted to EWSN’2019 demo session. As a good and formal start, I will continue to lengthen this paper to reveal more details about PicoScenes. If you are interested in PicoScenes system, it is worth reading. The paper is already opensourced here. I have set up the Continuous Integration (CI), so you can download the built PDF from here (PDF in the . [Read More]
#PicoScenes  #Introduction  #Demo  #Paper 

PicoScenes: Get Started

Basic CSI Measurement Guide

Posted on December 4, 2018
This tutorial will guide you how to perform CSI measurement using PicoScenes. PicoScenes system installation and update Install Ubuntu 18.04 and update to latest kernel version Install PicoScenes Driver, Platform and Plugins Install PicoScenes MATLAB Toolbox Update PicoScenes Basic CSI measurement using PicoScenes Prepare NICs for CSI Logging Prepare PicoScenes Arguments Perform CSI Measurement Parse .csi Files using PicoScenes MATLAB Toolbox Recover Normal Wi-Fi Mode System Installation And Update Step 1: Install Ubuntu 18. [Read More]
#PicoScenes  #CSI  #Tutorial 

Code Level Collaboration via GitLab

 Posted on March 14, 2018
It is critical to work together to discuss, to implement, and to review the development collaboratively in code level. For git based development, we have two ways of collaboration: One Shared Repository Forked + Pull/Merge Request The former one is the simplest form. The repository owner grants access to team members, and everyone works directly on this repository. Once you push something, it is something, and everyone should pull your work. [Read More]
#GitLab  #Merge Request 

Setup Research Blog on GitLab with Custom Domain and HTTPS

 Posted on February 26, 2018
The job described in title can be divided into several steps: Follow GitLab Pages Documentation to create your GitLab Pages at username.gitlab.io Buy your favorite custom domain [Optional] Transfer your domain resolving to DNSPod in case of domain being blocked by GFW Associate your domain to GitLab Pages Enable SSL/TLS connection via Let’s Encrypt I am not writing long to guide you step by step, because GitLab Pages Documentation is a very good guide for us to go through the above steps. [Read More]
#Domain  #HTTPS  #LetsEncrypt  #Hugo 

Perfect Singleton in C++11

in Just One Line

Posted on February 11, 2018
Short version: Perfect C++11 Singleton Template Long version: Singleton is one of the widely adopted design patterns to encapsulate a service class or any class whose functionalities tightly bind to one particular instance. It varies a lot in different programming languages to implement a singleton class. Most of them are tedious, and done in copy-and-paste way. C++, yes, the old one, is even more tedious to do so. Fortunately, C++11 makes great efforts to transform the old C++ into a much modern one, or modern C++. [Read More]
#Singleton  #C++11  #Template  #Coding 

Facts about CSI Phase Measured by Atheros 9300 NIC

Facts, The Verified Facts...

Posted on February 10, 2018
In this short page, several verified facts about CSI phase information are listed. More is pending, and discussions are welcome. 1. 0-th subcarrier of the 1st antenna, the most dominating. 0-th Subcarrier CSI phase measurement contains several noises/errors: CFO (Carrier Frequency Offset), SFO (Sampling Frequency Offset), PDD (Packet Detection Delay), and random initial phase, etc. Their impacts to OFDM CSI is different. SFO and PDD cause phase rotation (or slope component across subcarriers); CFO and random initial phase together cause random-like overall phase shift (or intercept component). [Read More]
#CSI  #Phase 

Advanced PicoScenes (2): Arbitrary Carrier Frequency Tuning

Enabling UWB Sensing on Commodity Wi-Fi Devices

Posted on February 3, 2018
In this tutorial, we explore a much more valuable feature of PicoScenes: arbitrary carrier frequency tuning, or enabling Ultra Wide Bandwidth (UWB) sensing on commodity Wi-Fi devices. Two ways are provided to access this feature: Carrier Frequency Direct Tuning, and Carrier Frequency Scanning. In the following text, I use CF for the abbreviation of Carrier Frequency. Carrier Frequency Direct Tuning Tuning NIC phy0 to an arbitrary CF demands only one argument: –freq. [Read More]
#PicoScenes  #UWB  #Tutorial 

Advanced PicoScenes (1): Injection with ACK

ms Grade BI-DIRECTIONAL CSI Measurement

Posted on February 2, 2018
The previous tutorial introduces PicoScenes and exemplify the simple injector and logger modes. In this tutorial, we move forward to an advanced feature of PicoScenes: Injection with ACK, or chronos-initiator and chronos-responder modes. For a simple description, these two modes working together enable BI-DIRECTIONAL CSI measurement with ms grade round-trip delay (RTD). This tutorial is an extended topic on PicoScenes. You should refer the previous tutorial for basic usage of PicoScenes. [Read More]
#PicoScenes  #Injection  #ACK  #Tutorial 

TechNote: Subcarrier Occupation in 802.11n HT20, HT40 and HT40+/- Channel Modes

Use HT20 or HT40 Mode!

Posted on January 31, 2018
Section 20.3.7 in 802.11n Standard states clearly about the subcarrier occupation in HT20/HT40/HT40+/HT40- channel mode: … In the 20 MHz HT format, the signal is transmitted on subcarriers –28 to –1 and 1 to 28. In the case of the 40 MHz HT format, a 40 MHz channel is used. The channel is divided into 128 subcarriers. The signal is transmitted on subcarriers –58 to –2 and 2 to 58. [Read More]
#CSI  #Bandwidth  #HT20  #HT40  #Subcarrier