I’ve been down here for two weeks now, and I started my research project on Friday.
I chose to do Multi-Hop Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks, which is extremely close to what I want to do professionally. I ended up talking to the Research Adviser about my future plans with free open source wireless communication systems, and he decided to modify my research to be voice over multi-hop wireless networks. That means I’ll be using their wireless voice comm system they’ve already developed, and integrate it with additional nodes to pass the signal on (hop) to propagate it to more distant nodes that can’t communicate directly with the source.
After I get that done, if I have time, I’ll then try to implement the SDR (software defined radio) equipment they have so I can experiment with different multi-hop wireless protocols like multi-channel, spread-spectrum, frequency hopping, and other types of encoding.
Its gonna be tough, since lots of this involves programming and I’m definitely no programmer, but this experience is exactly, and I mean exactly, what I need to advance my own designs. Wish me luck!
