Design a WLAN mini access point in the android platform

Mobile as a computing platform is becoming more and more popular. The amount of such devices shipped every year is growing rapidly, more than 1.2 billion in 2009. At the same time the WLAN is being widely adapted at various locations like campuses, meeting rooms, stations, etc. Currently almost all smart phones come with the support for the WLAN. However, most the mobile devices can only behavior as a client in the WLAN. It would be a remarkable feature if the mobile device is able to function as an Access Point (AP) and a modem which forwards data between the 3G network and the WLAN. Android designed for handheld devices has become a popular and powerful platform in both the industry and amateur developer community. Presently there is no WLAN AP mode supported in the Android platform, therefore it’s an interesting task for us to implement such a function. We start with studying the software AP hostapd. We set up a WLAN with hostapd running in a Ubuntu Linux platform, instead of a hardware AP. By doing this we figure out the elements needed to achieve the software AP functionality. Next we explore the Android building system, understand the mechanism the building system works, and learn the way add new modules that we prepare to add into the platform. With these basics we take all the elements needed into Android source code hierarchy and build them into the final executables. Testing cases are given both in Ubuntu Linux platform and the Android platform. To make the user experience better we design an application in the Android platform for controlling the AP built from hostapd and other components. Through the process we have done many experiments and have gained rich experience and knowledge in the Linux operating system, Linux wireless implementation, wireless drivers, Android building system, and Android application development. Some of them are enhancement to the existing knowledge in various websites, and some are new to all the members in the development community. These are all recorded in the thesis. For the final testing we succeed in both steps. First, the peripheral stations can discover the AP in the Android platform and all stations are able to connect to it. There is no difference between connection to the AP in the Android platform and connection to a normal hardware AP device. Secondly, the data packets are successfully transmitted between stations, which means there is no barrier in the AP in the Android platform for providing data service. From the view of networking layering, we conclude that we succeed in both link layer and application layer

Complex amplitudes tracking loop for multi-path channel estimation in OFDM systems: Synthesis and extension

version corrigée (4 corrections en rouge dans les formules par rapport à la publication de la conférence)International audienceThis study deals with pilot-aided multi-path channel estimation for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems under slow to moderate fading conditions. Some algorithms exploit the channel time-domain correlation by using Kalman filters (KFs) to track the channel multi-path complex amplitudes (CAs), assuming a primary acquisition of the delays. Recently, it was shown that less complex algorithms, based on a second-order Complex Amplitude Tracking Loop (CATL) structure and a Least-Square (LS) pilot-aided error signal, can also reach near optimal asymptotic mean-squared error (MSE) performance. The LS-CATL-based algorithms are inspired by digital Phase-Locked Loops (PLL), as well as by the "prediction-correction" principle of the KF (in steady-state mode). This paper sums up and extends our previous results for the tuning and steady-state performance of the LS-CATL algorithm: analytic formulae are given for the first-, second-, and third-order loops, usable here for the multi-path multi-carrier scenario, and adaptable to any Doppler spectrum model of wide-sense stationary channels

Simplified Random-Walk-Model-Based Kalman Filter for Slow to Moderate Fading Channel Estimation in OFDM Systems

12 pagesInternational audienceThis study deals with multi-path channel estimation for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing systems under slow to moderate fading conditions. Advanced algorithms exploit the channel time-domain correlation by using Kalman Filters (KFs) based on an approximation of the time-varying channel. Recently, it was shown that under slow to moderate fading, near optimal channel multi-path complex amplitude estimation can be obtained by using the integrated Random Walk (RW) model as the channel approximation. To reduce the complexity of the high-dimensional RW-KF for joint estimation of the multi-path complex amplitudes, we propose using a lower dimensional RW-KF that estimates the complex amplitude of each path separately. We demonstrate that this amounts to a simplification of the joint multi-path Kalman gain formulation through the Woodbury's identities. Hence, this new algorithm consists of a superposition of independent single-path single-carrier KFs, which were optimized in our previous studies. This observation allows us to adapt the optimization to the actual multi-path multi-carrier scenario, to provide analytic formulae for the mean-square error performance and the optimal tuning of the proposed estimator directly as a function of the physical parameters of the channel (Doppler frequency, Signal-to-Noise-Ratio, Power Delay Profile). These analytic formulae are given for the first-, second-, and third-order RW models used in the KF. The proposed per-path KF is shown to be as efficient as the exact KF (i.e., the joint multipath KF), and outperforms the autoregressive-model-based KFs proposed in the literature

On the use of tracking loops for low-complexity multi-path channel estimation in OFDM systems

International audience—This paper treats pilot aided multi-path channel estimation with tracking loops for OFDM systems under slow to moderate fading conditions. Recent works have presented theoretical results for the tuning of second-order and third-order tracking loops in the particular context of Jakes's Doppler spectrum channel. The method for getting the loop coefficients resorted either to the use of a given constraint, which made the obtained coefficients sub-optimal, or was obtained in part by simulations. Here, we perform a global optimization of the coefficients without constraints to get the optimal coefficients, and analytical formulas are provided. One remarkable result of this optimization is that only the natural frequency depends on the transmission parameters, i.e., the channel Doppler spectrum, the power delay profile, and the noise variance. Consequently, only one parameter has to be tuned. Moreover, asymptotic performance is formulated in a more general way as a function of the 2rth moments of the Doppler spectrum (r is the loop order). Hence, all our derivations are usable for any Doppler spectrum and are not specific to Jakes's Doppler spectrum. A complete table sums up for the three orders the theoretical results of the optimal coefficients together with the asymptotic performance. The performance is also compared with that of the asymptotic Kalman filter