Distributed Spectrum and Channel Assignment

WINLAB Summer Internship 2021

Group Members: Zhile Li, Samuel Sayles, Aditya Shrivastava

Project Objective

The goal for this project is to make the spectrum usage for wireless communication be more effectively.

Several objectives:

• Using nodes in Orbit lab to transmit, receive and observe the signal and transmission process

• Collect data from the transmission process

• Use of AI/ML to optimize the efficiency of spectrum

Due to current operating status at Rutgers, in-person lab work with the physical hardware will have to wait until later in the summer.

Week 1 Activities

• Study the basic idea of spectrum sensing
• Set up Orbit and get familiar to the use of lab
• ​Week 1 Presentation

Week 2 Activities

• Researched previous works on our topic
• Got familiar with previous experiments that have been similar to what we will be doing.
• ​Week 2 Presentation

Week 3 Activities

• Repeat the transmission experiment in the paper
• In sandbox, use different nodes as transmitter, receiver and observer to observe the transmission process
• ​Week 3 Presentation

Week 5 Activities

• In USRP, try to capture the waveform and plot them in time-domain
• ​Week 5 Presentation

Week 6 Activities

• Looked into ML approach
• We looked into some datasets online but figured creating them would be better
• Met with one of our advisors and walked through collection scripts
• ​Week 6 Presentation

Week 7 Activities

• Focus on Data collection for future ML training
• Using orbit lab/ grid to transmit, receive and observe in different conditions
• ​Week 7 Presentation

Week 8 Activities

• Continued working on data scripts
• Troubles with file sharing and bug fixing
• ​Week 8 Presentation