[Discuss-gnuradio] GSOC ideas [802.11]

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>----Messaggio originale----
>Da: address@hidden
>Data: 10-apr-2013 11.10
>A: <address@hidden>
>Ogg: GSOC ideas [802.11]
>
>Hello,
>I'm Marco Ribero, an italian student and I'm following the third year of 
>computer engineering at polytechnic of Turin.
> I'm writing you this letter because I'm interested in GSoC program, and 
when 
>I read GSoC ideas on the gnu radio webpage, i found interesting the proposal 
>about 802.11a receiver and wireshark connector. 
>Why?Because it could be a good application of my passed course in theory of 
>signal,where I studied theory,but I didn't make anything of practice. 
Anothor 
>reason is that a lot of wifi card could receive from only one channel at time
>(eventually hoping from one channel to the next) and using sdr I could 
manage 
>more channel at time(if the receiver has enough band). And it could be a 
nice 
>challenge receive network packet using sdr instead of wifi card. 
>I've a good knowledge of C/C++ and vb.net, and a discrete knowledge about 
>python and java. I've also capacity with asp.net and php,but the graphics is 
>not my favourite.I've a good knowledge of algorithm (i won a silver medal at 
>the national olympics of informatics,10th), and I think that this project 
could 
>be a nice challenge for this summer. At the moment, I've only a cheap ezcap 
>tuner for fun with SDRSharp, gnuradio and octave, then I'll ask you files 
with 
>captured wifi traffic,and also wireshark captures(for test).
>I've some questions: why do u consider only 802.11a, and not also 802.11g(if 
>I'm not in wrong,they use the same modulation)? 802.11g is very common
(instead 
>of 802.11b o n,one is legacy,the other is more complicated in my opinion) 
and 
>there are many device which can only receive 2.4ghz. Do you prefer a 
realtime 
>application,isn'it?however i think that the best thing is begin with a 
module 
>which isn't complety realtime,and pass data to the network sniffer using .
pcap 
>files..when it work,I'll try to improve the module of gnuradio,and find an 
>efficient way to pump data into wireshark directly.I know that for this 
project 
>i must improve strongly my knowledge about theory of signal, though i tooka 
>very good vote in theory of signal, because my course didn't cover all 
aspect, 
>but I think it could be a nice opportunity to improve my skills.
>And in any case, I must have a good knowledge for futere jobs.
>
>I'll be very thankful with you if you give me this possibility, and I ask 
you 
>to tell me what I should do to discuss more about this project
>
>Sorry for my English not drinkable, and thank you for ur time,
>Marco Ribero
>