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My senior project, called Controlled Communications, is finally complete. I finished the site on Tuesday and it can be view here.

What we basically did is built a wireless detector/jammer that would detect the presence of wireless communications (i.e. Cellular, Bluetooth, WiFi, etc.) and then jammer the associated frequency bands used by the particular service. For our project we only constructed a 2.4 GHz band detector/jammer to 1. simply our proof-of-concept design and 2. detour the legal issues with jamming licensed bands.

This put our device capable of detecting/jamming WiFi a/b/g/ and Bluetooth. In short, it worked and we where able to deny service to users within a 10 meter radius. Additional details can be found at the project site.

I haven’t been posting any tech info lately because I’m trying to get everything ready to start another semester. I’ve already been fighting with the school about trying to take a class that I don’t have the prerequisite for and also the financial aid office about one of my scholarships.

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Today I gave a presentation on my ECE4000 research project titled, “Connecting the “Last Mile”: A Comparison Among Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH), WiMax, and Broadband over Power Line (BPL).” Below are links to the paper and the presentation.

	Paper
	Presentation

I concluded that FTTH was the best solution for telecommunication companies to invest in because the demand for high speed communications increases exponentially and FTTH is the only solution that can meet the demand for years to come.

I came upon this link a while back and have had it on my toolbar ever since. I have overheard many people talk about a website that listed all the salaries of the Georgia employees, but no one knew the URL of the site. Well here it is, the Department of Audits and Accounts.

http://www.audits.state.ga.us/esa/confirm.aud

It include the salary and travel supplement for all Georgia state employees. To view the salaries of Georgia Tech professors, select Units of the University System of Georgia and Georgia Military College for Organization Type and then Georgia Institute of Technology for Organization.