# Year 2025 ## Jun. 18, 2025 * [Platform] Change default CSI plot engine to 'imgui' * [SDRBaseband] Fix bug in 'no-iq' option * [SDRBaseband] Fix bug in in EHT format detection * [SDRBaseband] Improve performance for LDPC decoding * [SDRBaseband] Improve performance for signal resampling (both up and down) ## May 7, 2025 * [SDRBaseband] Fix bug in filter ## Apr. 19, 2025 * [SDRFrontEnd] add '--show-spectrum' option for SDR frontend (beta testing) ## Apr. 18, 2025 * [Platform] Add 'web' and 'imgui' options for plot. Use them by '--plot-engine web' or '--plot-engine imgui' ## Apr. 9, 2025 * [HackRFFrontEnd] Fix bug in 'preset' option ## Apr. 8, 2025 * [SDRFrontEnd] Add SDR traffic monitor * [USRPFrontEnd] Fix bug in setting Tx/Rx sampling rate * [SDRFrontEnd] Add 'tx-rate' and 'rx-rate' options, allowing users to set Tx/Rx sampling rates individually * [SDRBaseband] Improve 802.11n/ac/ax/be LDPC decoding performance ## Apr. 7, 2025 * [SDRFrontEnd] More efficient and accurate support for 'tx-resample-ratio' and 'rx-resample-ratio' * [SDRFrontEnd] Major update to 'preset': set 'tx/rx-rate' and 'tx/rx-resample-ratio' automatically for all supported SDR frontend, removing the previously fixed sampling rate and resample-ratio * This upgrade avoid the additional manual 'tx/rx-rate' and 'tx/rx-resample-ratio' settings for USRP N3xx and X4x0 series devices. * [Platform] Remove the '--resampling-preset' option ## Apr. 6, 2025 * [IntelMVMFrontEnd] Fine-Timing Measurement (FTM) clock value is now accessible * This uint32_t value [MVMExtraInfo->parsedHeader->ftmClock](https://github.com/wifisensing/RXS-Parsing-Core/blob/8c64b76970c717406a9b7a997b99c3fc20b6496d/MVMExtraSegment.hxx#L22) represents the hardware baseband clock ticks. Each tick increment corresponds to 3.125ns on the 320MHz baseband main clock. * This clock wraps to 0 after every 4.29 seconds * This clock is used for FTM ranging, thus called FTM Clock by Intel. ## Arp. 2, 2025 * [Platform] Fix a small display bug ## Mar. 31, 2025 * [SDRBaseband] Fix a serious bug causing packet loss * [SDRBaseband] Fix bug in packet Rx time * [SDRFrontEnd] Introduce v3 .bbsignals format, enhancing multi-channel signal recording & replay ## Mar. 24, 2025 * [SDRFrontEnd] Performance boost for I/Q signal recording & replay ('--rx-to-file' and '--tx-from-file') ## Mar. 18, 2025 * [SDRBaseband] Fix the single-thread hang-up problem. ## Mar. 16, 2025 * [Platform] Enhance update notification * [Platform] Fix a rare crash issue during the startup ## Mar. 9, 2025 * [License] Enhance MultiInstance feature description with troubleshooting tip * [USRPFrontEnd] Bug fix: add sensor availability check before query * [SDRFrontEnd] Fix bug mentioned in https://github.com/wifisensing/PicoScenes-Issue-Tracker/issues/20 * [SDRBaseband] '--mt' option default to 4, i.e., enabling 4-thread parallel decoding by default * This is a temp fix for the strange hanging issue. ## Mar. 8, 2025 * [USRPFrontEnd] Add multi-port connection for NI USRP X410 ## Mar. 6, 2025 * [USRPFrontEnd] Fix a bug in checking the calibration files ## Mar. 5, 2025 * [Platform] Fix a bug causing installation failure * [Platform] Fix a dependency bug ## Mar. 4, 2025 * [Parsing-Core] Upgrade NoiseFloor/RSS to float type. ## Mar. 3, 2025 * [License] Fix bug in Device-Bound License * [Script] Add 'PrunePicoScenes' script which, mainly for troubleshooting purpose, can remove PicoScenes completely from your system, including: * PicoScenes plugins, platform, and driver * PicoScenes software source and source-updater * EttusResearch version libuhd * [USRPFrontEnd] Fix bug in USRP addressing * [SDRFrontEnd] Restore the 'source-address-filter' and 'destination-address-filter' options for SDR frontend ## Mar. 1, 2025 * [License] Add Trial License by option '--trial' * [License] Trial License features: * Time-limited access to all advanced features without payment * Ideal for short-term projects or evaluation purposes * Unlimited renew with short gap * [License] Fix bug in Pro license validation ## Feb. 18, 2025 * [SDRFrontEnd] Fix bug in EHT PPDU decoding ## Feb. 17, 2025 **Major Upgrade to Whole Platform** * [SDRFrontEnd] Multi-threading RX decoding logic completely rewritten, performance and availability significantly improved * [SDRFrontEnd] Add '--no-iq' option to skip saving the PPDU baseband signal into .csi file, saving lots of disk space * [SDRFrontEnd] Display more detailed information during the device detection and initialization * [USRPFrontEnd] Support USRP X410, N321/320 and N310/300 models * [USRPFrontEnd] Support TwinRX / LFTX / LFRX / BasicTx / BasicRx daughterboards * [USRPFrontEnd] Support Quad-SFP+ / Dual-QSFP+ connection * [CI/CD] Moved to GitHub platform ## Feb. 13, 2025 * [Platform] Enhance the firmware hint and device subtype detection for NI USRP ## Feb. 12, 2025 * [Platform] Working on supporting NI USRP X410 ## Jan. 25, 2025 * [SDRFrontEnd] Fix bug in the default behavior of 'tx-ant' and 'rx-ant' options * [SDRFrontEnd] add 'no-iq' option to skip saving the PPDU baseband signal into .csi file ## Jan. 24, 2025 * [SDRFrontEnd] Major API refactoring * [SDRFrontEnd] Support USRP TwinRx daughterboard ## Jan. 2, 2025 * [Platform] Shift to GitHub source host # Year 2024 ## Oct. 2, 2024 * [SDRBaseband] Fix a bug in LDPC decoder for 5/6 rate case ## Sep. 19, 2024 * [SDRBaseband] Decoding performance improved ## Sep. 12, 2024 * [SDRBaseband] Fix bugs which cause packet missing detection * [Parsing-Core] Performance improvement for ModularPicoScenesRxFrame::toBuffer() ## Sep. 9, 2024 * [SDRFrontEnd] Enhanced memory performance * [Parsing-Core] Fix bug for VirtualSDR frontend ## Aug. 9, 2024 * [FrontEnd] Fix a crash bug for the COTS frontends. Thanks @BCSam1 for reporting this issue in https://gitlab.com/wifisensing/picoscenes-issue-tracker/-/issues/277 ## Aug. 1, 2024 * [USRPFrontEnd] Minor update for warning hints ## Jul. 25, 2024 * [USRPFrontEnd] Fix a USRP timeout bug for continuous frequency swiping ## Jul. 23, 2024 * [Platform] Fix bug in multi-instancing checking ## Jul. 12, 2024 * [FrontEnd] Fix bug mentioned in https://gitlab.com/wifisensing/picoscenes-issue-tracker/-/issues/271 Thanks Dr. Kuangda Chen from University of Technology Sydney for reporting this issue. ## Jul. 11, 2024 * [Platform] Upgrade libuhd dependency to 4.7 ## Jun. 16, 2024 * [Script] Add 'RepairPicoScenes' script to auto remove and reinstall PicoScenes * [Platform] Optimize UI * [Platform] Preparing for Ubuntu ARM build ## Jun. 15, 2024 * [Platform] Display COTS NIC information during start ## Jun. 10, 2024 * [SDRFrontEnd] Fix bugs for HackRF One frontend, which are mentioned in issue https://gitlab.com/wifisensing/picoscenes-issue-tracker/-/issues/249 ## Jun. 1, 2024 * [Platform] Optimize the frontend detection flow ## May 31, 2024 * [SDRFrontEnd] Fix bugs for HackRF One frontend, which are mentioned in issue https://gitlab.com/wifisensing/picoscenes-issue-tracker/-/issues/249 ## May 28, 2024 * [License] Improve experience for the Pro-DBL license ## May 12, 2024 * [SDRFrontEnd] '--tx-ant' and '--rx-ant' now supports multiple antenna values. For example, '--txcm 1 --tx-ant TX/RX --rxcm 3 --rx-ant RX2 TX/RX' means Tx using TX/RX port of Channel 0, and Rx using RX2 port of Channel 0 and TX/RX of Channel 1. ## May 8, 2024 * [Platform] Fix the bug which invalidated the EchoProbe Initiator-Repsonder mode ## May 2, 2024 * [SDRFrontEnd] Add option `rx-to-file-delayed-start` ## Apr. 27, 2024 * [SDRBaseband] Fix bug for --rx-resample-ratio ## Mar. 27, 2024 * [SDRFrontEnd] --rate option supports separate Tx and Rx rate, like "--rate 20e6 25e6" ## Mar. 26, 2024 * [MVMFrontEnd] Display better hint for the "Cannot infer a reasonable and unique ..." error * [SDRFrontEnd] Improve robustness for the name resolving of USRP devices * [SDRBaseband] Fix bug in multi-Rx channel decoding, reported in issue https://gitlab.com/wifisensing/picoscenes-issue-tracker/-/issues/211. Thanks Dr. Jiaming Gu from TsingHua University for reporting this issue. ## Mar. 24, 2024 * [SDRBaseband] Fix a crash bug caused by invalid HT/VHT parameters, which is reported with issue https://gitlab.com/wifisensing/picoscenes-issue-tracker/-/issues/209 ## Mar. 17, 2024 * [SDRFrontEnd] Fix bug in setting the --tx/rx-cfo and --tx/rx-cfo options ## Mar. 5, 2024 * [SDRBaseband] NonHT format now supports 40/80/160 MHz CBW ## Mar. 3, 2024 * [SDRBaseband] Add AbstractSDRFrontEnd::skipMPDUDecoding4HESUHighDopplerFrame API to accelerate CSI extraction (by bypassing the data decoding) for HESU High-Doppler mode frames ## Feb. 22, 2024 * [API] Rename PicoScenesFrameTxParameters::idleTime to PicoScenesFrameTxParameters::inBasebandPostfixPaddingTime ## Feb. 18, 2024 * [SDRFrontEnd] API AbstractSDRFrontEnd::transmit(const ModularPicoScenesTxFrame &frame) now transmits frame.prebuiltSignals if available ## Feb. 16, 2024 * [Parsing-Core] Upgrade CSISegment to v7, adding timingOffsets property ## Feb. 15, 2024 * [DSP] ToF estimation algorithm supports the single-valued v6 CSI data ## Feb. 14, 2024 * [Platform] Fix bug in AsyncPipeline.hxx API, where in very high probability, the AsyncPipeline just fails to start. ## Feb. 10, 2024 * [SDRBaseband] Refined CFO and SFO estimation for HESU mode, especially for HESU high-doppler profile * [Platform] Initialize Ubuntu 22.04 shifting ## Feb. 1, 2024 * [SDRBaseband] Refactor the Extra Sounding CSI measurement for HT format ## Jan. 29, 2024 * [SDRFrontEnd] Fix bug in 'tx-to-file' ## Jan. 24, 2024 * [SDRBaseband] EHT-SU mode now supports Extra Sounding * [SDRBaseband] Fix bug in EVM computation ## Jan. 22, 2024 * [Parsing-Core] Major update: 1. Change all segments in RxFrame to std::shared_ptr<> hooked, improve RxFrame I/O performance 2. Unify coding style ## Jan. 21, 2024 * [SDRBaseband] fix bug in EVM computation for BPSK modulation ## Jan. 20, 2024 * [SDRBaseband] Improve Rx performance ## Jan. 18, 2024 * [SDRBaseband] Fix bug in HT format sounding ## Jan. 15, 2024 * [SDRBaseband] Improve Rx performance, fix performance bug in LDPC encoding ## Jan. 14, 2024 * [SDRBaseband] Fix bug in format detection, mentioned in https://gitlab.com/wifisensing/picoscenes-issue-tracker/-/issues/194 ## Jan. 3, 2024 * [Parsing-Core] Fix bug mentioned at https://gitlab.com/wifisensing/picoscenes-issue-tracker/-/issues/190 and https://gitlab.com/wifisensing/picoscenes-issue-tracker/-/issues/191 ## Jan. 2, 2024 * [Platform] Add 'force-root' option to bypass root privilege checking. # Year 2023 ## Dec. 29, 2023 * [Platform] Auto-expire in 2 months * [HackRFFrontEnd] Fix bug in device resolving Thanks @Xloading-919 for reporting this bug https://gitlab.com/wifisensing/picoscenes-issue-tracker/-/issues/189 ## Dec. 27, 2023 * [USRPFrontEnd] Skip the performance optimization when USRP devices is not connected ## Dec. 22, 2023 * [TxParameter] Add `--prefer-ampdu` Tx parameter option. When this option is specified, Tx baseband will prefer to use A-MPDU (Aggregated MPDU) format for long frame. ## Dec. 21, 2023 * [AX200/AX210] Fix a severely crash bug; upgrade PicoScenes Driver version to 20231221 ## Dec. 19, 2023 * [SDRBaseband] Improve Rx decoding performance; fix bug in EHT-SU format decoding * A known issue: LDPC encoding is very slow, much slower than decoding ... ## Dec. 14, 2023 * [SDRBaseband] Improve performance via more efficient memory operation ## Dec. 12, 2023 * [Parsing-Core] Huge refactoring on parsing-core; improve performance, use C++ move semantics ## Dec. 8, 2023 * [Platform] Deprecate FrameBuilder API; upgrade ModularPicoScenesTxFrame ## Dec. 4, 2023 * [SDRFrontEnd] Add Full Duplex control, enabling the radar mode on SDR devices. * [Platform] Add TX_CBW_320_EHTSU, RX_CBW_320, and TR_CBW_320_EHTSU presets ## Dec. 2, 2023 * [License] Major update for licensed features for COTS NICs: **all limitations for COTS NICs removed**. See updated https://ps.zpj.io/features_pricing.html * [License] Major update for licensed features for SDR: **large part of limitations for SDR removed.**. See updated https://ps.zpj.io/features_pricing.html * [Platform] Accelerate program startup when either kernel version or driver version is incompatible. ## Nov. 30, 2023 * [Platform] Upgrade uhd driver to 4.6 from Ettus official repository **The installation will fail deliberately for the first time. You must reinstall/upgrade again**. **This upgrade also upgrade the FPGA firmware version of USRP.** ## Nov. 22, 2023 * [Platform] Add '--skip-nic' option to skip Wi-Fi COTS NIC detection and installation * [Platform] Optimize starting up logic ## Nov. 18, 2023 * [SDRBaseband] Slight performance improvement * [Platform] Change slogan in accordance with revision of http://ps.zpj.io ## Nov. 12, 2023 * [SoapySDRFrontEnd] Fix bug in using HackRF One Thanks @longshengyan999 for posting this issue: https://gitlab.com/wifisensing/picoscenes-issue-tracker/-/issues/171 * [MVMFrontEnd] Upgrade driver to 20231112, fixing a minor bug ## Nov. 4, 2023 * [SDRBaseband] Fix bug in CargoSegment decoding in AMPDU case ## Nov. 1, 2023 * [SDRBaseband] Better CFO/SFO estimation for HESU mid-amble case ## Oct. 31, 2023 * [Driver] Support CSI measurement for AMPDU frames by AX200/210 * [Driver] Upgrade driver dependency to 20231031 * [Platform] Support CSI measurement and frame auto-split/concatenation * [SDRFrontEnd] Shrink maximum per-MPDU size to 1350 to allow VHT/HESU-typed AMPDU for AX200/210 ## Oct. 26, 2023 * [SDRBaseband] Improve decoding for EHT-SU ## Oct. 23, 2023 * [SDRBaseband] Force accurate SFO estimation; * [SDRBaseband] Add 'bb_use_conventional_packet_detector' to config ## Sep. 11, 2023 * [SDRBaseband] Improve Rx decoding robustness ## Sep. 2, 2023 * [SDRBaseband] Fix bug in VHT/HESU/EHTSU packet detection ## Aug. 31, 2023 * [SDRBaseband] Major upgrade: Add Wi-Fi 7 support (EHT-SU format) * [SDRBaseband] Improve Rx decoding performance w/ fine-grained Pilot-based phase-errro tracking/correction * [RXS-Parsing-Core] Remove PreEQSymbolsSegment and PilotCSI segment ## Aug. 25, 2023 * [Platform] Fix a bug caused during accessing the CPU frequency governor ## Aug. 21, 2023 * [SDRBaseband] Add support for the dual-channel frontend all through the platform ## Aug. 19, 2023 * [SDRBaseband] Fix a performance bug of the unexpected multi-threading under cblas * [SDRBaseband] Improve Tx performance for multi-channel splitting ## Aug. 18, 2023 * [USRPFrontEnd] Fix a path not found error * Thank you, Mr. Changfei Zhou from the DLUT for reporting this issue! ## Aug. 13, 2023 * [FrontEnd] Set 3.2us GI for HESU/HEMU by default ## Aug. 9, 2023 * [SDRBaseband] More robust CFO estimation ## Aug. 8, 2023 * [SDRBaseband] Improve performance for the multi-channel split/merge ## Aug. 7, 2023 * [SDRBaseband] Fix bug in CSI computation for HESU NDP case ## Aug. 5, 2023 * [SDRFrontEnd] Fix a bug in multi-channel selection * [SDRFrontEnd] Major upgrade: * Support multi-channel combination, like tx/rx the lower/higher 10 MHz half band of CBW 20 baseband signals from two RF channels. ## Aug. 3, 2023 * [Driver] Upgrade to version 20230803, which fix a bug in License display ## Jul. 31, 2023 * [SDRBaseband] Optimize Rx performance in super-sampling case ## Jul. 27, 2023 * [SDRFrontEnd] Fix bug in channel specification ## Jul. 23, 2023 * [SDRFrontEnd] Support multiple LO frequencies for multi-channel frontend ## Jul. 18, 2023 * [License] Enable QCA9300's Tx ESS feature for PSLP-FL user ## Jul. 13, 2023 * [USRPFrontEnd] Fix a rare crash bug during Tx ## Jul. 9, 2023 * [USRPFrontEnd] Add --agc option to enable Rx automatic gain control (AGC) functionality * Note: AGC is only supported by B2x0 and E3x0 series devices * Note: AGC is disabled by default, specify --agc to enable it. * [USRPFrontEnd] Reduce USRP B2x0 Rx overflow errors by increasing recv_frame_size to 16384 ## Jul. 8, 2023 * [SDRBaseband] Minor optimization ## Jul. 7, 2023 * [Platform] Add global preference mechanism @ $HOME$/.PicoScenes/preference ## Jul. 4, 2023 * [USRPFrontEnd] Turn off Rx radio during Tx (a test release) * [Platform] Fix bug in FrameDumper ## Jul. 2, 2023 * [Driver] Upgrade platform to 5.15.0-73 kernel ## Jun. 9, 2023 * [SDRFrontEnd] Fix a bug in multi-antenna RX * [Intel MVM FrontEnd] Fix a bug in channel switching ## Jun. 6, 2023 * [License] Add MaxLengthAutoSplitConcat feature * This feature control the max length of "auto split & concatenation for large data transporation". It may affects the data back-transfer of the EchoProbe-based round-trip measurement. * The max value is 10000 for Free-License user and infinite for PUL ## May 28, 2023 * [SDRBaseband] Optimize Rx decoding performance ## May 26, 2023 * [SDRFrontEnd] Slightly optimize Rx decoding performance ## May 21, 2023 * [USRPFrontEnd] Mitigate the Tx signal corruption caused by SDR frontend ## May 19, 2023 * [SDRBaseband] Fix a minor bug affecting CFO computation ## May 18, 2023 * [FrontEnd] Fall back to ordinary multi-packet Tx for auto-split in case of no BatchTx permission ## May 14, 2023 * [SDRBaseband] Add EVM computation using the Legacy+HT/VHT/HE-SIG fields * [SDRBaseband] Fix a crash bug during multi-threading ## May 10, 2023 * [Platform] Fix various bugs in previous upgrades; * [SDRFrontEnd] Improve robustness for auto-split Tx ## May 8, 2023 * [SDRBaseband] Turn-off 'fast-math' compiler option for better decoding accuracy/rate ## May 6, 2023 * [Platform] Upgrade to new building flow, support macOS .pkg build ## May 2, 2023 * [SDRFrontEnd] Fix a packet-missing bug during multi-thread decoding ## Apr. 28, 2023 * [Platform] Add ToF estimation DSP library ## Apr. 14, 2023 * [SDRFrontEnd] Force noise floor computation during startRx * [SDRFrontEnd] Add decoding delay computation * [Parsing-Core] Add decodingDelay to SDRExtra segment ## Apr. 13, 2023 * [SDRFrontEnd] Add clearRxBuffer API ## Apr. 12, 2023 * [Platform] Check CPU frequency governor during the start ## Apr. 5, 2023 * [Platform] Prompt correct error message for the "-1000000 carrier frequency" error ## Apr. 2, 2023 * [Platform] Prolong the platform expiration time to 3 months later ## Apr. 1, 2023 * [SDRFrontEnd] Add noise floor measurement during startRx * [FrontEnd] Large refactoring introduced, ABI broken for the previously built plugin. * [SDRBaseband] Fix bug in Cargo segment decoding ## Mar. 27, 2023 * [SDRFrontEnd] Rx path refactored ## Mar. 25, 2023 * [SDRFrontEnd] Performance optimization * [SDRFrontEnd] Unify sc16 cpu format for all SDR frontend ## Mar. 19, 2023 * [Platform] Fix bug in frame autosplit and autoconcatenation ## Mar. 18, 2023 * [SDRBaseband] Performance improvement ## Mar. 17, 2023 * [License] add a Evaluation License ## Mar. 15, 2023 * [SDRFrontEnd] Fix bug in --tx-to-file ## Mar. 12, 2023 * [USRPFrontEnd] Fix bug in searching calibration files ## Mar. 8, 2023 * [Platform] Refine Logging output * [License] Fix minor bugs ## Mar. 1, 2023 * [Platform] Fix a crashing issue during the capability checking Issue source: https://gitlab.com/wifisensing/picoscenes-issue-tracker/-/issues/116 ## Feb. 28, 2023 * [SDRBaseband] Fix a multi-threading bug * [Platform] Add error stacktrace print for early stage crashing ## Feb. 27, 2023 * [SDRFrontEnd] Fix a small performance bug * [SDRBaseband] Fix a rare bug on macOS * [USRPFrontEnd] Upgrade for UHD 4.1 and above ## Feb. 26, 2023 * [Driver] Upgrade to 5.15 based 20230226 version; * [Platform] Fix bug in multi-platform build/run, 20.04/22.04/macOS * [Platform] Preparing for 22.04 upgrade ## Feb. 25, 2023 * [Platform] Upgrade to Ubuntu/macOS unified build script ## Feb. 22, 2023 * [FrontEnd] Fix bug in hackRF One detection on macOS * [SoapySDRFrontEnd] Fix bug in hackRF One clock/time source settings (w/ empty function) ## Feb. 3, 2023 * [Platform] Fixing compilation errors in macOS ## Jan. 30, 2023 * [FrontEnd] Solve the conflicts between --preset and other Tx parameters. Now --preset, if presence, will invalidate --format, --cbw, and --coding options. ## Jan. 21, 2023 * [Platform] Fix bug in Tx parameter settings for SDR frontend ## Jan. 19, 2023 * [Platform] FrameDumper API updated, add withoutTime option ## Jan. 13, 2023 * [VirtualSDRFrontEnd] Bring it back online ## Jan. 7, 2023 * [USRPFrontEnd] Fix a minor bug for Tx path * [SDRFrontEnd] Refine transmitSignalInBatchedSingleBurst API # Year 2022 ## Dec. 15, 2022 * [LoggingService] Change the default log level to debug * [USRPFrontEnd] Use the device ID "usrp" when only one USRP device is connected ## Dec. 14, 2022 * [License] Optimize the license validation for PUL license, switching to opportunistic strategy * [License] Small changes to FL license: 1. AX200/210 frontend can track up to 10 different MAC address, preivously 5; 2. Controlling up to 2 USRP devices by one PicoScenes instance, previously 1; 3. For SDR frontend users, L-LTF part CSI is available. ## Dec. 13, 2022 * [Logging Service] Add rotary-file based sinker ## Dec. 10, 2022 * [Logging Service] Platform switched to spdlog based new Logging facility More to come: 1. Aspect differential logging 2. Multi-sink (console + file + rotary) * [Platform] Assign loggers fo the old logging messages * [Platform] Rename RXSDumper (API) to FrameDumper, remove the Utilities lib which is replaced by SystemTools lib ## Dec. 9, 2022 * [Platform] Refactoring the logging service, switching to the spdlog library ## Dec. 7, 2022 * [USRPFrontEnd] Auto-checking Tx/Rx calibration files for N2x0/N3x0/X3x0 series USRPs * [USRPFrontEnd] Auto add 'enable_tx_dual_eth=1' if dual connection * [SDRFrontEnd] add checkings and show warning message for hardware vulnerabilities mitigation ## Dec. 6, 2022 * [USRPFrontEnd] Fix bug in master_clock_rate initialization Thanks Mr. Jingcheng Li from University of Arizona for reporting this bug! * [SDRFrontEnd] fix bug in --resampling preset naming * [USRPFrontEnd] Add connection problem detection; * [USRPFrontEnd] Add global network optimizations (network buffer, tx/rx ring buffer, MTU) ## Dec. 4, 2022 * [SDRBaseband] Fix a serious timing bug in non-supersampling case * [USRPFrontEnd] Device discovery & naming routine is fully rewritten, introducing the support for flexible device combination among multi-usrp and dual 1/10/100GbE connection. Examples are: 1. dual 1/10/100GbE connection for x300/n3x0/x4x0 by special character '_', e.g., usrp192.168.30.2_192.168.40.2 ( 192.168.30.2 and 192.168.40.2 are the two ports of single x300/n3x0/x4x0 device.) 2. hybrid connection of multi-usrp and dual 1/10/100GbE connection, e.g., usrp192.168.30.2,192.168.70.2_192.168.80.2 ( 192.168.30.2 is one of the ports of the first x300/n3x0/x4x0 device, while 192.168.70.2 and 192.168.80.2 are the two ports of the second.) 3. conventional multi-usrp connection, e.g., usrp192.168.30.2,192.168.70.2 (192.168.30.2 and 192.168.40.2 are the ports of two separate n2x0/x300/n3x0/x4x0 devices). ## Dec. 2, 2022 * [Scripts] Fix bug in array_status, which wrongfully includes the Ethernet NICs ## Dec. 1, 2022 * [SDRBaseband] Fix two serious packet missing bugs associated with high/very high resampling ratio ## Nov. 30, 2022 * [SDRBaseband] Fix bug in signal timing ## Nov. 29, 2022 * [Scripts] Improve robustness for array_status and array_prepare_for_picoscenes scripts * Thanks Mr. Yanqi Zhu from Tokyo University for reporting this bug. ## Nov. 28, 2022 * [SDRFrontEnd] Fix a rare crash problem during the start of signal Tx ## Nov. 27, 2022 * [USRPFrontEnd] Optimize Timing/Clocking logic, reducing startup time * [SDRFrontEnd] Introducing --resampling-preset option for SDR frontends. It adds resampling flexibility to the previous --preset option. All supported --resampling-preset are listed below. More will be added if neccessary. PicoScenes supports the following SDR resampling presets: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TX_20_20: Equivalent to "--rate 20e6 --tx-resample-ratio 1.0" TX_20_25: Equivalent to "--rate 25e6 --tx-resample-ratio 1.25" TX_20_40: Equivalent to "--rate 40e6 --tx-resample-ratio 2.0" TX_20_50: Equivalent to "--rate 50e6 --tx-resample-ratio 2.5" TX_20_100: Equivalent to "--rate 100e6 --tx-resample-ratio 5" TX_20_200: Equivalent to "--rate 200e6 --tx-resample-ratio 10" TX_40_40: Equivalent to "--rate 40e6 --tx-resample-ratio 1.0" TX_40_50: Equivalent to "--rate 40e6 --tx-resample-ratio 1.25" TX_40_100: Equivalent to "--rate 40e6 --tx-resample-ratio 2.5" TX_40_200: Equivalent to "--rate 40e6 --tx-resample-ratio 5.0" TX_80_100: Equivalent to "--rate 100e6 --tx-resample-ratio 1.25" TX_80_200: Equivalent to "--rate 200e6 --tx-resample-ratio 2.5" TX_160_200: Equivalent to "--rate 200e6 --tx-resample-ratio 1.25" RX_20_20: Equivalent to "--rate 20e6 --rx-resample-ratio 1.0" RX_20_25: Equivalent to "--rate 25e6 --rx-resample-ratio 0.8" RX_20_40: Equivalent to "--rate 40e6 --rx-resample-ratio 0.5" RX_20_50: Equivalent to "--rate 50e6 --rx-resample-ratio 0.4" RX_20_100: Equivalent to "--rate 100e6 --rx-resample-ratio 0.2" RX_20_200: Equivalent to "--rate 200e6 --rx-resample-ratio 0.1" RX_40_40: Equivalent to "--rate 40e6 --rx-resample-ratio 1.0" RX_40_50: Equivalent to "--rate 50e6 --rx-resample-ratio 0.8" RX_40_100: Equivalent to "--rate 100e6 --rx-resample-ratio 0.4" RX_40_200: Equivalent to "--rate 200e6 --rx-resample-ratio 0.2" RX_80_100: Equivalent to "--rate 100e6 --rx-resample-ratio 0.8" RX_80_200: Equivalent to "--rate 200e6 --rx-resample-ratio 0.4" RX_160_200: Equivalent to "--rate 200e6 --rx-resample-ratio 0.8" TR_20_20: Equivalent to "--rate 20e6 --tx-resample-ratio 1.0 --rx-resample-ratio 1.0" TR_20_25: Equivalent to "--rate 25e6 --tx-resample-ratio 1.25 --rx-resample-ratio 0.8" TR_20_40: Equivalent to "--rate 40e6 --tx-resample-ratio 2.0 --rx-resample-ratio 0.5" TR_20_50: Equivalent to "--rate 50e6 --tx-resample-ratio 2.5 --rx-resample-ratio 0.4" TR_20_100: Equivalent to "--rate 100e6 --tx-resample-ratio 5 --rx-resample-ratio 0.2" TR_20_200: Equivalent to "--rate 200e6 --tx-resample-ratio 10 --rx-resample-ratio 0.1" TR_40_40: Equivalent to "--rate 40e6 --tx-resample-ratio 1.0 --rx-resample-ratio 1.0" TR_40_50: Equivalent to "--rate 50e6 --tx-resample-ratio 1.25 --rx-resample-ratio 0.8" TR_40_100: Equivalent to "--rate 10e6 --tx-resample-ratio 2.5 --rx-resample-ratio 0.4" TR_40_20: Equivalent to "--rate 200e6 --tx-resample-ratio 5.0 --rx-resample-ratio 0.2" TR_80_100: Equivalent to "--rate 100e6 --tx-resample-ratio 1.25 --rx-resample-ratio 0.8" TR_80_200: Equivalent to "--rate 200e6 --tx-resample-ratio 2.5 --rx-resample-ratio 0.4" TR_160_200: Equivalent to "--rate 200e6 --tx-resample-ratio 1.25 --rx-resample-ratio 0.8" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Nov. 26, 2022 * [SDRFrontEnd] Remove support for BladeRF, LimeSDR and USRP from SoapySDR interface, for quicker SDR device discovery * [USRPFrontEnd] Optimize the Tx timing * [FrontEnd] Add TR_CBW_XXX series frontend mode presets. The TR_CBW_XXX combines the TX_CBW_XXX and RX_CBW_XXX. The complete presets list can be viewed by "PicoScenes --list-presets" * [FrontEnd] Improve the readability of --list-presets output ## Nov. 24, 2022 * [USRPFrontEnd] Fix a naming bug for the USRP B2x0 series when multiple devices are connected. ## Nov. 23, 2022 * [USRPFrontEnd] More robust clock/time source settings * [Platform] Make license related headers to public * [Parsing-Core] Tx presets add TX_CBW_40_HT and TX_CBW_40_HT_LDPC ## Nov. 22, 2022 * [USRPFrontEnd] Optimize Tx success rate ## Nov. 18, 2022 * [SDRFrontEnd] Fix a crashing bug ## Nov. 17, 2022 * [USRPFrontEnd] X310 Dual 10 GbE connection now officially shipped, try dual 10GbE connection like "-i usrp192.168.30.2_192.168.40.2" * [Parsing-Core] change txUnknownSegments and rxUnknownSegments to std::map structure ## Nov. 16, 2022 * [SDRBaseband] Fix a serious Rx decoding freeze bug in 20 channel bandwidth case ## Nov. 15, 2022 * [SoapySDRFrontEnd] Fix bug in HackRF One packet reception * [USRPFrontEnd] Fix bug in set time source ## Nov. 14, 2022 * [USRPFrontEnd] Add special workaround to support dual 10Gbe connection for USRP X310, support up to dual-channel 200 MSPS ## Nov. 13, 2022 * [SDRFrontEnd] Improve performance and timing accuracy * [SDRFrontEnd] Fix bug which causes packet missing * [SDRFrontEnd] Optimize the trade-off inter-thread overlapping v.s. per-thread decoding length ## Nov. 12, 2022 * [IntelMVMFrontEnd] Fix bug in license term MVM_TxMaxRate4CBW80N160 computation ## Nov. 9, 2022 * [SDRFrontEnd] Improve Tx time computation * [SDRFrontEnd] Improve Rx decoding * [SDRFrontEnd] Fix bug in subcarrier bandwidth computation ## Nov. 8, 2022 * [SDRFrontEnd] Add correct timestamp (1us) to RXSBasic structure * [Parsing-Core] Fix bug in the latest ExtraInfo segment update Thanks Mr. Ruohan Bai from Xi'an University of Posts & Telecommunications for reporting this bug. ## Nov. 6, 2022 * [SDRFrontEnd] Reducing Rx decoding delay, but slightly raise CPU usage * [SDRFrontEnd] Fix packet missing bug ## Nov. 5, 2022 * [SDRFrontEnd] Add Out of baseband noise floor computation, which leads to faster/better noise floor setting within baseband * [SDRFrontEnd] User SSE4.1 instructions for non-AVX platform ## Nov. 4, 2022 * [SDRFrontEnd] Add live noise floor estimation ## Nov. 3, 2022 * [SDRFrontEnd] Multithreading for each frontend ## Nov. 2, 2022 **Major Upgrade: Multithreading SDR Rx Decoding!** * [SDRFrontEnd] Whole Rx Decoding code deep refactored. * [SDRFrontEnd] Add --mt (multithreading) option that enable up to 10x Rx decoding performance increase !!!! Thanks team member Tian Teng and Xinya Luan for exploring the possible approaches ## Oct. 24, 2022 * [SDRFrontEnd] Reduce memory footprint ## Oct. 23, 2022 * [SDRFrontEnd] A major code refactoring is ongoing ... * [Parsing-Core] Add SDRExtraSegment, fix Tx frame display bug ## Oct. 22, 2022 * [SDRFrontEnd] Improve Rx performance for 80/160 CBW ## Oct. 20, 2022 * [SDRFrontEnd] Add receiveSignalsWithStatus API ## Oct. 19, 2022 * [SDRFrontEnd] Add transmitSignalWithStatus API ## Oct. 20, 2022 * [Parsing-Core] Preventing crash from for a buggy corner case Thanks Sorachi Kato from Osaka University for reporting this bug: https://gitlab.com/wifisensing/picoscenes-issue-tracker/-/issues/91 ## Oct. 18, 2022 * [USRPFrontEnd] Fix time sync error for Tx MIMO ## Oct. 11, 2022 * [SDRBaseband] Fix bug * [Parsing-Core] Fix compilation bug on macOS Thanks @wanrylin for pointing out the solution: https://gitlab.com/wifisensing/picoscenes-issue-tracker/-/issues/87#note_1131063803 ## Oct. 10, 2022 * [RXS-Parsing-Core] Fix a serious bug * [SDRBaseband] Fix a performance bug ## Oct. 7, 2022 * [RXS-Parsing-Core/Platform/PMT-Core] Merge the major upgrade for the PicoScenes Frame Segment API ## Oct. 4, 2022 * [RXS-Parsing-Core] Add hasNamedField API to MVMExtraSegment ## Sep. 18, 2022 * [Intel Frontend] Better error display for --freq/bw/control options ## Sep. 14, 2022 * [Platform] Fix bug in array_status ## Sep. 12, 2022 * [Platform] New thread pool API ## Sep. 10, 2022 * [SDRBaseband] Improve Rx performance * [SDRBaseband] Add --mt experimental option to enable multi-thread Rx decoding ## Sep. 9, 2022 * [SDRBaseband] Improve Rx performance ## Aug. 29, 2022 * [SDRBaseband] Add get/set numSamplesSavedBeforeStart API, which specifies the number of samples ahead the packet start during signal dumping ## Aug. 28, 2022 * [Platform] Improve robustness for event logger ## Aug. 26, 2022 * [SDRBaseband] Add 'precoding-for-prehe' option ## Aug. 25, 2022 * [SDRBaseband] Add --precoding-distance option ## Aug. 23, 2022 * [SDRBaseband] add Tx distance simulation * [SDRBaseband] Fix the packet loss issue & improve robustness, w/ slight performance drop ## Aug. 21, 2022 * [Parsing-Core] Add Intel rate_n_flag (v2) field interpretation API IntelRateNFlag ## Aug. 16, 2022 * [License] Fix several bugs for PUL user * [License] Upgrade to v8 license. Some changes to FL: 1. 80/160 MHz packet injection, but with 45pkts/s max Tx rate 2. Modify the 6GHz band access range, limited to 5955-6415 MHz * [License] Deprecate --pul-key option, use --pul-key-file * [SoapyFrontEnd] Remove USRP from SoapySDR support ## Aug. 13, 2022 * [SDRFrontEnd] Minor update for Tx parameter velidation ## Aug. 12, 2022 * [Parsing-Core] Add phase slope/intercept computation * [License] Fix bug in --rx-cfo/rx-sfo, --tx-cfo/tx-sfo * [Platform] Fix bug in USRP devices counting ## Aug. 11, 2022 * [Driver] Upgrade to 20220811, fix the 'empty timestamp issue' for AX200/210 * [License] Fix bug in --rx-cfo/rx-sfo, --tx-cfo/tx-sfo * [License] Revert the old role 'PSLP-PUL license will fallback to PSLP-FL in case of un-synchronized system clock.' * [Driver] Upgrade to 20220812, workaround an Intel firmware bug (very frequent crash while measuring CSI in monitor mode) ## Aug. 9, 2022 * [Platform] Add AsyncPipeline.hxx, an async messaging service. * [Platform] Add 'destination' field for PicoScenes Messaging Service * [FrontEnd] Add several default options values * [AX200/210] Fix bug in Rx chainmask display * [SDRFrontEnd] Add --txcm/rxcm options * [SDRFrontEnd] Fix bug in setting channels * [License] Now PSLP-FL can transmit (inject) 80/160 MHz with a 45pkts/s rate limit, PUL is limitless * [License] Modify the 6GHz band access range by PSLP-FL, limited to 5955-6255 MHz * [License] Add display for license feature MaxRxMACAddress ## Aug. 1, 2022 * [Driver] Upgrade to 20220801, add rxcm output in ExtraInfo segment ## July 31, 2022 * [Parsing-Core] Fix bug in accessing licensed content * [Parsing-Core] Refactored the MVM header parsing routine ## July 29, 2022 * [MVMFrontEnd] Adding --rxcm for AX200/210 NIC * [Driver] Upgrade to 20220729 ## July 27, 2022 * [SDRFrontEnd] Fix bug in HackRF transmission ## July 23, 2022 * [Parsing-Core] Enhance PayloadSegment API * [Platform] Fix bug in PicoScenesMessagingService API ## July 22, 2022 * [SDRFrontEnd] Fix a buffer related bug ## July 21, 2022 * [SDRFrontEnd] Fix a small performance bug ## July 19, 2022 * [Platform] Add PicoScenesMessagingService API * [Parsing-Core] Fix bug in MVM CSI parsing ## July 17, 2022 * [Platform] Fix bug in startup hang ## July 15, 2022 * [Platform] Upgrade RXSDumper API; enable link-time optimization (LTO) * [Scripts] Add RepairPicoScenes script to completely reinstall PicoScenes ## July 12, 2022 * [Parsing-Core] Upgrade CSI preprocess code ## July 10, 2022 * [Parsing-Core] Upgrade CSI preprocess code ## July 9, 2022 * [Platform] A temp fix for privilege problem ## July 6, 2022 * [Parsing-Core] Revert the incorrect ant_sel feature for AX200/210 ## July 5, 2022 * [Parsing-Core] Initial support ant_sel bit for AX200/210 * [Driver] Upgrade to 20220705 * [Platform] Slight upgrade for privilege checking ## July 4, 2022 * [Parsing-Core] Slight update, add a union structure to RxSBasic * [Live Plotter] Add RSS live display ## June 27, 2022 * [Platform] Upgrade HardwareId calculation algorithm ## June 24, 2022 * [RXS-Parsing-Core] Fix bug in header files ## June 23, 2022 * [RXS-Parsing-Core] Add three aux. methods ## June 20, 2022 * [SDRFrontEnd] Add transmitFramesInBatchOnly4PrebuiltSignals API for faster injection ## June 18, 2022 * [FrontEnd] Fix a potential performance bug ## June 16, 2022 * [Debug] Fix the insufficient permission issue during debugging when the default shell is not bash Thanks Dr.Murali from Princeton U for helping identify this bug. The discussion is at https://gitlab.com/wifisensing/picoscenes-issue-tracker/-/issues/44 ## June 15, 2022 * [Debug] Fix the insufficient permission bug during plugin debugging. * [EventLogger] Upgrade for more insightful crash analysis * [RXS-Parsing-Core] RXSBasicSegment structure adds systemTime field, used for system time capturing * [Driver] Upgrade to 20220615, now each CSI measurement returns a ns-level system time measured at the host end (via ktime_get_real method) ## June 3, 2022 * [SDRBaseband] Fix a decoding bug in VHT and HESU/HEMU cases. ## June 1, 2022 * [USRPFrontEnd] Add network interface card speed test ## May 25, 2022 * [SDRFrontEnd] Near-perfect performance optimization for single-channel --rx-to-file operation. ## May 24, 2022 * [SDRFrontEnd] Huge performance improvement for --rx-to/from-file and --tx-to/from-file options, by saving/loading the native int8/16 format ## May 23, 2022 * [EULA] Refine EULA display * [SDRBaseband] Fix a buffer related bug ## May 22, 2022 * [USRPFrontEnd] Add special workadround for USRP N3x0 series master clock rate (MCR) setting * [EULA] Upgrade EULA ## May 21, 2022 * [USRPFrontEnd] Add special workadround for USRP X3x0 series master clock rate (MCR) setting ## May 20, 2022 * [USRPFrontEnd] Fix bug in --master-clock-rate option ## May. 11, 2022 * [SDRBaseband] minor tweak ## May. 9, 2022 * [Scripts] Upgrade to JDK 11 based showPci.jar, remove the illegal reflection-based access warning ## May, 5, 2022 * [SDRBaseband] Fix bug in subcarrierBandwidth calculation in Rx resampling case * [Platform] Add bash-completion-based CLI command auto-completion. Just press in CLI to pop and complete all PicoScenes options * [Platform] Minor fix to --help display ## Apr. 28, 2022 * [Platform] Refine the software upgrade hint ## Apr. 27, 2022 * [FrontEnd] Add AX210/AX211 .pnvm file version checking * [Platform] Refactor the "--help" output, now it's more friendly and more readable. * [SDRFrontEnd] Fix bug in --preset TX_CBW_40_HESU ## Apr. 26, 2022 * [Driver] Upgrade to 20220426 version (5.14-1034 version kernel), enabling the 6-GHz band access on the latest 12-th Intel Core platform. * [Driver] Support Intel AX211 NIC, which is the CNVi-interfaced AX210. * [Packaging & Driver] Move the AX200/210/211 firmwares to PicoScenes Driver package, which reduces the file size of the picoscenes-platform ## Apr. 25, 2022 * [Intel FrontEnd] All Intel frontends (5300/AX200/AX210) switch to netlink based channel configuration, which improves robustness. * [Release] Fix compilation & runtime library missing issues caused by netlink-related libraries * [AX200/AX210 FrontEnd] Improve robustnss for Source MAC addresses filter. * [FrontEnd] Fix a serious bug in setChannelAndBandwidth which forbids channel switching for correct channel parameters ## Apr. 23, 2022 * [Parsing-Core] Fix two bugs in Rx frame raw buffer rebuiding: 1. recovering the missing MVMExtra field, 2. wrong length value copy of MVMExtra * [NIC] Fix a corner bug in multi-packet concatenation ## Apr. 22, 2022 * [FrontEnd] Add CargoSegment-based long packet auto-split and concat; EchoProbe now works for AX200/210 * [Deb Package] Disable Secure Boot checking temporarily ## Apr. 20, 2022 * [Parsing-Core] Add CargoSegment data structure * [Deb Package] Add libboost-iostreams1.71.0 dependency ## Apr. 19, 2022 * [Scripts] Fix a rare crash bug in array_status ## Apr. 15, 2022 * [FrontEnd] Fix bug in "--txcm" (Tx chainmask) option logic ## Apr. 14, 2022 * [SDRFrontEnd] Add --preset and --list-presets option for SDR frontends. "--preset " option provides shortcuts to specify SDR to work with 40/80/160-Channel, VHT/HESU format, and LDBC/BCC coding. For example, "--preset TX_CBW_160_HESU" is a shortcut to "--rate 200e6 --tx-resample-ratio 1.25 --cbw 160 --format hesu --coding ldpc" The complete list of predefined presets can be queried by "--list-presets" option. The current list is: PicoScenes supports the following SDR frontend mode presets: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TX_CBW_160_HESU: [Tx, 160 MHz CBW, 200 MHz actual Tx sampling rate, 1.25 Tx resample ratio, HESU format, and LDPC coding] TX_CBW_160_VHT: [Tx, 160 MHz CBW, 200 MHz actual Tx sampling rate, 1.25 Tx resample ratio, VHT format, and BCC coding] TX_CBW_160_VHT_LDPC: [Tx, 160 MHz CBW, 200 MHz actual Tx sampling rate, 1.25 Tx resample ratio, VHT format, and LDPC coding] TX_CBW_80_HESU: [Tx, 80 MHz CBW, 100 MHz actual Tx sampling rate, 1.25 Tx resample ratio, HESU format, and LDPC coding] TX_CBW_80_VHT: [Tx, 80 MHz CBW, 100 MHz actual Tx sampling rate, 1.25 Tx resample ratio, VHT format, and BCC coding] TX_CBW_80_VHT_LDPC: [Tx, 80 MHz CBW, 100 MHz actual Tx sampling rate, 1.25 Tx resample ratio, VHT format, and LDPC coding] TX_CBW_40_RESAMPLE_HESU: [Tx, 40 MHz CBW, 50 MHz actual Tx sampling rate, 1.25 Tx resample ratio, HESU format, and LDPC coding] TX_CBW_40_RESAMPLE_VHT: [Tx, 40 MHz CBW, 50 MHz actual Tx sampling rate, 1.25 Tx resample ratio, VHT format, and BCC coding] TX_CBW_40_RESAMPLE_VHT_LDPC: [Tx, 40 MHz CBW, 50 MHz actual Tx sampling rate, 1.25 Tx resample ratio, HESU format, and LDPC coding] TX_CBW_40_RESAMPLE_HT: [Tx, 40 MHz CBW, 50 MHz actual Tx sampling rate, 1.25 Tx resample ratio, HT format, and BCC coding] TX_CBW_40_HESU: [Tx, 40 MHz CBW, 40 MHz actual Tx sampling rate, 1.0 Tx resample ratio, HESU format, and LDPC coding] TX_CBW_40_VHT: [Tx, 40 MHz CBW, 40 MHz actual Tx sampling rate, 1.0 Tx resample ratio, VHT format, and BCC coding] TX_CBW_40_VHT_LDPC: [Tx, 40 MHz CBW, 40 MHz actual Tx sampling rate, 1.0 Tx resample ratio, VHT format, and LDPC coding] RX_CBW_160: [Rx, 160 MHz Rx CBW, 200 MHz actual Rx sampling rate, 0.8 Rx resample ratio] RX_CBW_80: [Rx, 80 MHz Rx CBW, 100 MHz actual Rx sampling rate, 0.8 Rx resample ratio] RX_CBW_40: [Rx, 40 MHz Rx CBW, 40 MHz actual Rx sampling rate, 1.0 Rx resample ratio] Customized: [arbitrary Tx profile] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * [SDRFrontEnd] Add "--transfer-type" option, so you can specify 8 or 16-bit data transfer bit-depth between SDR and host CPU Note: not all devices (USRP or SoapySDR-based) supports changing "transfer type", e.g., X310 only 16-bit, HackRF One only 8-bit. ## Apr. 12, 2022 * [SDRFrontEnd] Improve robustness for transmission with postfixDuration ## Apr. 8. 2022 * [SDRBaseband] Fix potential bug in case of simultaneous working of USRP and HackRF * [AbstractSDRFrontEnd] Fix bug in Performance counter * [AbstractSDRFrontEnd] Initial support for LimeSDR * [Parsing-Core] Add SoapySDR_UHD device subtype ## Apr. 7, 2022 A major update to FrontEnd architecture: * Add HackRF One support. User can specify a HackRF One node by "-i hackrf0", where "0" means the 0-th HackRF One devices connected to your PC * Major update to AbstractSDRFrontEnd interface (API) * Upgraded power-trigger method for SDRBaseband * Various updates and refactors ... This version may contain bugs. If you encounter, please report the errors via PicoScenes Issue Tracker Known issues of HackRF One: 1. May be low packet decoding rate due to bad I/Q imbalance and other hardware imperfactions. 2. Up to 5.6ms interval between successive Tx frames. ## Apr. 4, 2022 * [Parsing-Core] Fix bug in arbitraryMPDUContent toBuffer method [API] Thank Mr. Lei Yang from Peking University for reporting this bug ## Mar. 31, 2022 * [Parsing-Core] Adding SoapySDR support * [FrontEnd] Moving some SDR-related APIs to the base class AbstractSDRFrontEnd (API), preparing for the SDR devices driven by SoapySDR library ## Mar. 29, 2022 * [Parsing-Core] Add arbitraryMPDUContent property to support the arbitrary content injection functionality Thank @seokwoninkaist for proposing this feature request @ https://gitlab.com/wifisensing/picoscenes-issue-tracker/-/issues/28 * [Platform] Add soapysdr-tools dependency. It will be a bridge to connect various low-cost SDR devices. ## Mar. 28, 2022 * [SDRFrontEnd] Add the argument 'repeat' for transmitFramesInBatchNG and transmitFramesInBatch (API) * [IntelMVMFrontend] Adopting the general logic of --source-mac-address-filter * [Parsing-Core] Add prebuiltSignals property for TxFrame structure (API) * [SDRFrontEnd] Add prebuildSignals method to AbstractSDRFrontend (API) * [SDRFrontEnd] Transmit prebuiltSignals if exists ## Mar. 27, 2022 * [SDRFrontEnd] rename --source-mac-address-filter and --destination-mac-address-filter options to --source-address-filter and --destination-address-filter * [FrontEnd] Add --source-address-filter and --destination-address-filter to all types of frontend * [SDRFrontEnd] Fix several critical program crash bugs. Thanks @zdtsanyecao from Beijing Jiaotong University for reporting above bugs! ## Mar. 25, 2022 * [SDRFrontEnd] add --source-mac-address-filter and --destination-mac-address-filter options ## Mar. 24, 2022 * [SDRBaseband] Remove the FFTW3 multi-threading feature to improve decoding robustness ## Mar. 23, 2022 * [Parsing-Core] Refactor the CSISegment class, adds CSISubcarrierIndex class to query the subcarrier indices of different formats (API) * [Parsing-Core] Add the complete data structure of class IntelMVMParsedCSIHeader (API) ## Mar. 21, 2022 * [Intel MVM FrontEnd] Fix a bug in compatible NIC identification. Thank 王大鳥(@sbbwlimit) from National Sun Yat-sen University for reporting this bug! ## Mar. 19, 2022 * [AX210 FrontEnd] Add checking for correct firmware, detecting a strange bug after OS firmware upgrade. * [Platform] Add error hints for incorrect JSON file parsing * [Platform] Checking NIC array status during start ## Mar. 16, 2022 * [Parsing-Core] CSI interpolation update, force the phase of 0-th subcarrier (DCPhase) within [-pi, pi] * [Utilities] Add UDPService API ## Mar. 13, 2202 * [Parsing-Core] Fix bugs in CSISegment and SignalMatrix ## Mar. 12, 2022 * [Parsing-Core] DPASRequest upgraded to v5, add stage field, upgrade to 32-bit ## Mar. 11, 2022 * [SDRFrontEnd] Add new transmitFramesInBatchNG method, make old transmitFramesInBatch deprecated (API) * [SDRFrontEnd] Add postfixPaddingTime TxParameters, allowing to transmit a very long train of zeros. (API) * [Parsing-Core] Add data accessing methods for CSI class (API) ## Mar. 10, 2022 * [Parsing-Core] Add postfixPaddingTime TxParameters, allowing to transmit a very long train of zeros. (API) ## Mar. 9, 2022 * [SDRFrontEnd] Add numTxAntenna option for generateSignal and generateMultiChannelSignal methods (API) * [SDRFrontEnd] Add 16-bit generateSignal, generateMultiChannelSignal, and transmitSignal methods (API) * [SDRFrontEnd] Template-ize the SignalCircularBuffer class (API) ## Mar. 8, 2022 * [License] Activating PUL license before MultiInstancing checking * [License] Optimize PUL validation flow; fix several bugs * [Packaging] Improve robustness of post-removal script Thank Mr. Pengming Hu from Henan University of Science and Technology (HAUST) for identifying the above bugs! ## Mar. 7, 2022 * [SDRFrontEnd] Add "--tx-ant" option to specify Tx Antenna for USRP * [SDRFrontEnd] Add getSDRFrontEndTime() method ## Mar. 5, 2022 * [FrontEnd] Fix bug in setting txpower for QCA9300 and IWL5300 ## Mar. 4, 2022 * [SDRBaseband] Minor update * [SDRBaseband] Perforamnce improved by LAPACK and BLAS library * [EventLogger] Fix a startup crash for some slow running computer * [EventLogger] Fix bug in crash message logger ## Mar. 2, 2022 * [License] Fix bug in --rx-to-file and --rx-from-file license checking * [SDRFrontEnd] More robust Tx for single-channel case; Add Rx error print ## Feb. 28, 2022 * [SDRBaseband] Change the precursorLength to prefixPaddingTime, default is 8us. * [License] Upgraded to v0.2.3, changes are * Disable --tx-to-file and --tx-from-file options for Free License users. ## Feb. 26, 2022 * [SDRBaseband] Add precursorLength TxParameters, which adds zeros before the generated baseband signals. Default length is 100. This measure workarounds a USRP Tx-related issue. Thank Dr. Xin Na from TsingHua University (supervised by Prof. Yuan He) for helping fix this bug. Thanks! ## Feb. 25, 2022 * [IWLMVMFrontEnd] Fix a bug in verification in 160 MHz BW case ## Feb. 21, 2022 * [DebPackaging] Preserve .PicoScenes dir during upgrading ## Feb. 20, 2022 * [License] Fix a serious bug during program startup; * [Parsing-Core] Re-enable CSD removal for USRP/5300/9300, temp disable for AX200/210 * [License] Terminate on invalid PUL key ## Feb. 19, 2022 * [License] Update to PSLP v0.2.2. Several key features relaxed to Free License Users, including: 1. [SDRFrontend] up to 2x2 MIMO; 2. [SDRFrontend] Clock Synchronization; 3. [SDRFrontend] Tx/Rx signal recoding/replay; 4. [SDRFrontend] Full baseband signal; * [License] fix bug in v0.1.11 -> v0.2 migration ## Feb. 18, 2022 * [Platform] Relax expiration checking to 2 months; Optimize the online checking * [License] PSLP-PUL license will fallback to PSLP-FL in case of un-synchronized system clock. * [Packaging] Remove $HOME$/.PicoScenes dir during uninstallation * [License] Add "pul-key-file" option to activiate PUL license via a simple text file containg the key string ## Feb. 17, 2022 * [Parsing-Core] Fix a bug in CSD removal; activate CSD removal for only USRP Rx end * [Driver] Update version to 20220216; fix bug * [AX200/AX210] Fix bug in Tx Chainmask computation ## Feb. 16, 2022 * [QCA9300 Frontend] Fix very slow packet injection bug * [Driver] Update version to 20220216 ## Feb. 15, 2022 * [License] Add 25MHz sampling rate to Free License ## Feb. 14, 2022 * [Parsing-Core] Implement NDP frame transmission ## Feb. 12, 2022 * [License] Fix bug * [USRP FrontEnd] Fix a serious timing bug; now desired SISO/SIMO/MISO/MIMO perfomrance is achieved. ## Feb. 9, 2022 * [USRPFrontEnd] Fix bug in x310/b210 multi-chanel signal synchronicity ## Feb. 9, 2022 * [USRPFrontEnd] Improve LO synchronicity across USRP channels ## Feb. 8, 2022 * [SDRBaseband] Improve realtime decoding performance for CBW80/160 packets ## Feb. 6, 2022 * [SDRBaseband] Optimize performance slightly * [Parsing-Core] Remove CBW_5 and CBW_10 * [SDRBaseband] Support decoding VHT/HESU NDP frames ## Feb. 5, 2022 * [SDRBaseband] Fix bug in signal decoding for 11ax High-Doppler packets ## Feb. 2, 2022 * [CLI] A set of common Tx parameters are now parsed by Platform CLI. ## Jan. 30, 2022 * [SDRBaseband] Major update wave 1: * Add PrecodingParameters to TxParameter. Users now can specify three type of signal precoding: 1. User specified Steering matrix, the matrix is in N_{sc} x N_{sts} x N_{tx} column-major order; 2. Explicit Beamforming style steering matrix computation; 3. Phased array: user specifies the per-antenna positions and desired steering angle; ## Jan. 28, 2022 * [SDRBaseband] Add API to specify a customized Spatial Mapping Matrix (matrix Q) ## Jan. 27, 2022 * [Parsing-Core] Optimize CSD removal performance ## Jan. 26, 2022 * [SDRBaseband] Preparing for a major peroformance boost * [Parsing-Core] CSD removal algorithm is integrated and activated by default for all MIMO CSI reception ## Jan. 25, 2022 * [Driver] Update to 20220125; fix bug in ath9k regulation domain ## Jan. 24, 2022 * [Parsing-Core] Add getSegment() and getTypedSegment methods to ModularPicoScenesTxFrame class * [Scripts] array_prepare_for_picoscenes skips the changing of CPU frequency governor by default ## Jan. 22, 2022 * [Driver] Upgrade to 202201221, remove useless dmesg output, fix bug in 5300 regdomain ## Jan. 19, 2022 * [LivePlot] Switch to X11 engine by default to fix the recent Qt5 problem * [Liveplot] Add "--plot-engine" option to switch among x11, qt, wxt * [Driver] Upgrade to 20220119 * [FrontEnd] Support AX200/210 variant, AX200/201/210/211 and Killer AX1650/AX1675 series * [SDRBaseband] Fix small bugs, improve performance ## Jan. 18, 2022 * [Platform] Update to 20220118 driver; * [Driver] Fix old crash bugs * [Parsing-Core] Fix bug in 160MHz BW injection and packet reception ## Jan. 15, 2022 * [Platform] Update to 20220115 driver; * [Driver] Fix bug; switch to v5.14 kernel ## Jan. 2, 2022 * [DPARequest] Add mode and device subtype * [SDRFrontEnd] Fix bug in headers # Year 2021 ## Dec. 28, 2021 * [SDRBaseband] Fix a serious bug in transmitSignal method * [DPARequest] Add carrier/sampling freq fields. ## Dec. 27, 2021 * [SDRBaseband] Fix a buffer-caused performance bug ## Dec. 26, 2021 * [SDRBaseband] Improve signal quality in --tx-resample-ratio and --rx-resample-ratio * [SDRBaseband] Fix bug for 802.11ax High-Doppler and Extended Range modes ## Dec. 24, 2021 * [SDRBaseband] Fix bug in --tx-resample-ratio * [SDRBaseband] Fix bug in --rx-cfo ## Dec. 18, 2021 * [License] Fix bug in SDR_TxESS ## Dec. 16, 2021 * [SDRFrontEnd] Fix bug in B210 USB connection checking * [SDRBaseband] Support decoding DPASRequest segment ## Dec. 15, 2021 * [SDRBaseband] Fix bug in generate HT-rate not_sounding frame. ## Dec. 14, 2021 * [SDRbaseband] Add 802.11ax High-Doppler and Extended-Ranged (HE-ER-SU) Tx and Rx support ## Dec. 10, 2021 * [Fix bug] Fix a installation bug caused by the SecureBoot checking. * [Parsing-Core] Refine DPASRequestSegment output * [Driver] update to 20211210 ## Dec. 9, 2021 * [Parsing-Core] Add DPASRequestSegment ## Dec. 8, 2021 * [SDRBaseband] Improve around 15% performance by using AVX2 intrinsics on AVX2-capable CPU! ## Dec. 7, 2021 * [Platform] Fix a missing lib bug ## Dec. 6, 2021 * [SDRBaseband] Add support for 802.11ax Extended Range (HE-EXT-SU) and High Doppler support (not integrated into plugins yet) ## Dec. 4, 2021 * [Frontend] Add Tx parameter validation ## Dec. 1, 2021 * [SDRBaseband] Add pthread dependency ## Nov. 30, 2021 * [Parsing-Core] Add validate() method for Tx parameter ## Nov. 26, 2021 * [Parsing-Core] Add temperature ExtraInfo for COTS NIC * [Driver] Add temperature output for AX200/AX210; update to 20211126 ## Nov. 23, 2021 * [Platform] Better error hint for "Unresolvable device ID" error. * [Platform] Add Secure Boot checking ## Nov. 22, 2021 * [License] Fix bug in MaxRxMACAddress checking * [Driver] Update to 20211122 * [Parsing-Core] Fix bug in CSISegment V4 ## Nov. 20, 2021 * [License] Activating License service. * [License] Update to v0.1.11 ## Nov. 14, 2021 * [Platform] --channel option supports 6GHz band * [Platform] Better error message hint for --channel, --freq and --rx-cbw options * [Scripts] minor update to array_status ## Nov. 13, 2021 * [Driver] Upgrade to 20211113, suppress very strange packet injection * [Platform] Fix bug for "DO NOT support the option" for comments * [Scripts] Change the default monitor interface naming to "mon${PHYPATH}" * [Scripts] Fix bug in PSLP_UIC script ## Nov. 12, 2021 * [Driver] Update to V4 version CSI data format (add firmwareVersion output) * [Driver] Upgrade to 20211112 * [Parsing-Core] Add V4 version CSI parser * [Parsing-Core] Add AX200 and AX210 device Type * [Platform] adapt to AX200/AX210 device type ## Nov. 10, 2021 * [FrontEnd] Fix CSI firmware bug for AX200/210 in VHT 160 MHz mode ## Nov. 9, 2021 * [Platform] Fix bug for the missing dialog command * [FrontEnd] Support CSI extraction from Intel AX210! ## Nov. 7, 2021 * [FrontEnd] Support CSI extraction from Intel AX210! ## Nov. 6, 2021 * [Platform] Relax program update window to 15 days * [Platform] Switch to picoscenes.com based usage tracking ## Nov. 5, 2021 * [Platform] Big update to the program startup sequence ## Nov. 4, 2021 * [Platform] Relax max offline session times to 50 * [Platform] Shorten the startup message display ## Nov. 2, 2021 * [License] Add Licensee informaton collector script (PSLP_UIC) * [License] Adding PUL remote checking mechanism * [Platform] Remove sqlite3 dependency ## Nov. 1, 2021 * [License] Adding PSLP-FL into license service, will be activated in Nov.20, 2021. * [License] Fix several bug, refine interaction * [License] Improve robustness ## Oct. 31, 2021 * [License] The documentation of PicoScenes License Plan (PSLP) v0.1.10 has been released at . * [License] Adding PUL license features ## Oct. 30, 2021 * [License] Adding license things, not activated... ## Oct. 29, 2021 * [Driver] AX200 much more robust channel switching, driver update to 20211029 ## Oct. 27, 2021 * [FrontEnd] Fix bugs * [License] Modify the free license features according to the PicoScenes License Plan v0.1.9 ## Oct. 26, 2021 * [Driver] Update to 20211026 to fix bug in channel change of AX200 * [Platform] fix bug in "control-bw-center" style channel specification * [Parsing-Core] Update * [License] Merging the license branch, add temporary test license * [FrontEnd] Huge refactor regarding 5300 and AX200 frontend ## Oct. 24, 2021 * [Platform] Add multi-instancing checking * [FrontEnd] Fix bug for the missing stopRx implementation * [FrontEnd] Workaround for an AX200 firmware bug ## Oct. 23, 2021 * [Platform] Update kernel verison dependency to 5.13 * [Driver] Update to 20211023 * [Packet Injection] AX200 now can inject 11g/n/ac/ax format packets in 2.4 and 5 GHz band using 20211023 version kernel driver. ## Oct. 22, 2021 * [Packet Injection] AX200 now can inject 11g/n/ac/ax format packets in 2.4 GHz band using 20211022 version kernel driver. * [Platform] Fix bug for the no ethernet-controller case * [Driver] update to 20211022 ## Oct. 20, 2021 * [FrontEnd] Test support 11a/g/n/ac/ax packet injection support by AX200 * [Build] Fix a project compilation error ## Oct. 13, 2021 * [FrontEnd] Add 5300 firmware checking ## Oct. 9, 2021 * [RxS-Parsing-Core] Fix bug in IEEE 802.11 frame header parsing, especially for the Control Frames. * [License] Herald the coming of the license service ## Oct. 8, 2021 * [Driver] A temp workaroud for another AX200 bug * [RxS-Parsing-Core] Add string output for frame control field and add frame type display ## Oct. 7, 2021 * [Rxs-Parsing-Core] Workaround the Intel 67 firmware bug ## Oct. 6, 2021 * [RxS-Parsing-Core] Performance improved for the Intel-MVM CSI data structure * [Rxs-Parsing-Core] Add *skipPilotSubcarriers* for fromIWLMVM method ## Oct. 5, 2021 * [Driver] Update to 20211005 dependency, adding rate and address filtering ## Oct. 4, 2021 * [Platform] Adding CSI filter mechanism ## Oct. 3, 2021 * [RxS-Parsing-Core] Update and unify the code authorship ## Oct. 2, 2021 * [RxS-Parsing-Core] Fix bug in CSI data index setting for Intel-MVM NIC ## Oct. 1, 2021 -- Happy China National Day! * [FrontEnd/HAL] Finishing the large refactoring, removing obsolete code. More tests needed. * [Driver] Upgrade to 20211001, fix bug for 9300/5300 CSI extraction * [Firmware] Install 67 version iwlwifi firmware **May our nation more prosperous!** ## Sep. 30, 2021 * [HAL] Disable CSI interpolation temporarily to have better CSI display for AX200/210 ## Sep. 29, 2021 * [Frontend] Fix many many bugs for all frontends -_-! * [Driver] Upgrade driver to 20210929, now support AX210 NIC! * [MVM FrontEnd] Remove Pilot subcarriers ## Sep. 28, 2021 **This is a not-fully-tested major update, may contain bugs. ** * [Driver] Upgrade to v5.13 base and 20210928 version * [Driver] Add AC9260/AX200 CSI extraction * [Platform] FrontEnd and HAL layers are all fully re-written to support AC9260/AX200 * [MATLAB-Toolbox] Please download the latest toolbox to support new NIC models * [BugFix] Add the missing methods for IWL5300/QCA9300 frontends ## Sep. 26, 2021 * [RxS-Parsing-Core] Upgrade RxsBasic segment to v3, adding the packet bandwith output ## Sep. 25, 2021 * [RxS-Parsing-Core] Upgrade RxsBasic segment to v3, adding the channel's control frequency ## Sep. 24, 2021 * [Driver] Updating to kernel 5.13 base, in order to support Intel AX210 NIC * [Platform] Minor update ## Sep. 19, 2021 * [Scripts] array_status now prints the frequency of the control channel by [CF_Control] column * [Platform] Re-enable CSI interpolation ## Sep. 18, 2021 * [FrontEnd] Fix a bug, preparing for big merge * [Driver] Upgrade driver to 20210918, preparing for big refactoring ## Sep. 16, 2021 * [FrontEnd] Refactoring the whole frontend layer, to make better acommodation for new ac/ax support ## Sep. 14, 2021 * [Scripts] Fix a bug in "array_status" script on the AMD Ryzen platform ## Sep. 11, 2021 * [Driver] Fix a bug when AX200 works in 802.11ac @ 2x2 MIMO and 160 MHz BW * [Platform] Add MVMExtraSegment and its display ## Sep. 10, 2021 * [Driver] Add empty stubs for severy un-supported controls of Intel MVM-based NICs. * [Driver] Upgrade to 20210910 * [Driver] CSI extraction added for Intel MVM but with incorrect parsing... ## Sep. 9, 2021 * [Platform] Very initial support for the Intel MVM-based Wi-Fi NICs (AC-9260/AX200) * [Driver] Upgrade to 20210909 version, for the support of Intel MVM-based Wi-Fi NICs (AC-9260/AX200) ## Sep. 4, 2021 * [Platform] Remove macAddressPhy from AbstractNIC * [USRPFrontEnd] Check USB connection for B200 model * [USRPFrontEnd] Add capability to view the *real* per-packet Tx status via "-d vv" ## Sep. 1, 2021 * [Platform] MacAddressPhy related code refactored. * [SDRFrontEnd] Add a pseudo-MAC address for USRP B200 series ## Aug. 29, 2021 * [Platform] Add the MVM related CSI data parsing code into rxs_parsing_core ## Aug. 28, 2021 * [Platform] Fix a potential bug in file writing, remove a unneccessary warning ## Aug. 27, 2021 * [FrontEnd] Add several utility methods to discover Inte's new CSI-available hardware * [Platform] Adding support for Intel MVM-based hardware (Wireless AC/AX series, AC9260, AX200, AX201, AX210, etc) ## Aug. 24, 2021 * [Driver] Update driver version to 20210824, fixing a core dump bug for IWL5300 ## Aug. 22, 2021 * [Driver] Update driver version to 20210822 ## Aug. 21, 2021 **Major update: PicoScenes Driver upgraded to 5.10 to prepare for the merge of new Intel 802.11ac/ax-based CSI extraction** * [Platform] Remove useless TxS data path * [Driver] Driver version dependency upgraded to 20210821 * [Platform] Change kernel dependency to v5.10 track, via linux-oem-20.04 For more information, please visit https://zpj.io/picoscenes-to-support-csi-extraction-from-802-11ac-ax-soon/ ## Aug. 18, 2021 * [Platform] Fix a bug for hardware corner case (again) * [Platform] Add QR Code based backtrace reporting and fix few potential bugs * [Platform] Fix a bug in date time format ## Aug. 17, 2021 * [Platform] Remove .md extension for changelog * [Platform] Fix a crash-in-crash bug * [Platform] Fix a bug in time gap computation ## Aug. 16, 2021 * [Platform] Fix bug of double "--quit" options ## Aug. 15, 2021 * [Platform] Better crash/error assistance information * [Installation] Reject virtualization environment * [Platform] Fix a bug in option parsing ## Aug. 14, 2021 * [Platform] Fix a bug in system command invocation * [Platform] Each new PicoScenes build will be expired in next 15 days. ## Aug. 13, 2021 * [Platform] Faster system integrity checking * [Platform] Add Application Event Reporter (reporting program events to tracking server) ## Aug. 6, 2021 * [Platform] Reduce display latency of CSI Live Plot ## Aug. 2, 2021 * [License] Adding license facility ## July 26, 2021 * [Platform] Fix bug in 0~1.0 rx-gain setting for QCA9300 * [Platform] Fix bug in rx-gain settings for multiple channels ## July 25, 2021 * [SDRFrontEnd] Fix a bug in Rx gain setting ## July 23, 2021 * [Platform] Optimized internet and NTP checking * [Platform] Fix bug in checking unsupported program options ## July 22, 2021 * [Platform] Add fine-grained user tracking ## July 20, 2021 * [Platform] Fix bug in gnuplot dependency * [Platform] Fix bug in the detection of the unrecognized program options * [Debian] Add sqlite3 dependency ## July 19, 2021 * [Platform] Faster NTP checking ## July 18, 2021 * [Platform] Adding Google Analytics based program behavior tracking ## July 17, 2021 * [Platform] Minor tweak for --plot * [Platform] Add fast failure for unrecognized program options. * [Platform] Faster & more robust Internet connection checking ## July 15, 2021 * [Platform] --rx-gain option can now specify Rx gain for each radio chain ## July 12, 2021 * [Platform] Upgrading driver dependency to 20210712, adding --rx-gain option for QCA9300 ## July 11, 2021 * [Platform] --plot option now can specify "log" or "absolute" plot style for CSI magnitudes ## July 10, 2021 * [Platform] Add Gnuplot based CSI live plot, by --plot option ## June 30, 2021 * [Platform] Update driver dependency to 20210630 ## June 26, 2021 * [Platform] Optimize the booting logic by parallelizing the update checking * [Platform] Add a parallel Java-based network connection checker ## June 24, 2021 * [Platform] Continue code refactoring for the Windows port ## June 23, 2021 * [Platform] Switch from dlibxx-based plugin environment to the cross-platform boost.dll, preparing for the Windows port ## June 17, 2021 * [Platform] Change max off-line checking times to 50 * [Platform] Timeout update checking for 10 seconds ## June 1, 2021 * [SDRFrontEnd] Fix minor bug in method *transmitFramesInBatch* * [SDRFrontEnd] Adding parameter checking * [Platform] Upgrade PicoScenes_Driver_Version to 20210601 ## May 26, 2021 * [SDRFrontEnd] Make *generateSignal* method public! * [SDRFrontEnd] Fix bug in method *transmitFramesInBatch* ## May 21, 2021 * [SDRFrontEnd] Add "transmitFramesInBatch" method, which pre-generates the baseband signals of multiple frames and transmits the signals in one big shot. ## May 19, 2021 * [SDRBaseband] output precise RX timestamp in nanosecond-level ## May 18, 2021 * [SDRFrontEnd] use TX/RX antenna by default * [FrontEnd] support normalized txpower and rx-gain: "--txpower 30" for 30db txpower, "--txpower 0.5" for 0.5 of the max Txpower; "--rx-gain 30" for 30db RX gain , "--rx-gain 0.5" for 0.5 of the max RX gain; * [SDRFrontEnd] use 0.7 txpower and 0.6 rx-gain by default ## May 17, 2021 * [SDRFrontEnd] Add "precise-sfo" option to control whether to enable the pilot CSI-based CSI estimation * [Platform] Performing the big merge!!!!! ## May 16, 2021 * [SDRFrontEnd] --rx-to-file can trigger startRx() directly * [SDRFrontEnd] Add channel number checking for --rx-from-file * [SDRFrontEnd] Add DSPRateTracker to track the baseband processing speed * [SDRFrontEnd] **Improve the Rx decoding performance by 30%**, by parallelizing the raw decoding result to RxFrame conversion. ## May 14, 2021 ### The biggest change since the public test The FrontEnd and HAL layers are completely rewritten during the past 2 weeks. Some highlights are as follows. 1. Add "virtualSDR" device, allowing users to play with the baseband signals even without a real SDR hardware; 2. A powerful AbstractSDRFrontEnd API interface which encapsulates all the baseband DSP related stuffs. It significantly simplifies the support for the future SDR devices. 3. Simplified "--tx-from-file" 4. Simplified frontEnd setting APIs ## May 14, 2021 * [SDRBaseband] Fix bug in NoiseFloor and RSS computation * [SDRFrontEnd] Fix bug in signal consumption tracking * [SDRFrontEnd] Fix bug in virtual SDR * [Platform] Merging new FrontEnd architecture ## May 12, 2021 * [SDRBaseband] New baseband version, integrating the signal count-based auto-reset ## May 10, 2021 * [SDRBaseband] Fix a bug which causes unexpected resets to the Rx state machine. * [AbstractSDRFrontEnd] Fix a bug in Rx buffer reset ## May 7, 2021 * [SDR Baseband] Fix a bug which causes miss detection; fix a bug in USRP identification * [Platform] Remove a redundant library dependency ## May 5, 2021 * [FrontEnd] USRPFrontEnd refactoring ## May 4, 2021 * [Platform/SDRFrontEnd] Refactoring USRPFrontEnd into a heavyweight AbstractSDRFrontEnd + lightweight USRPFrontEnd * [FrontEnd] Adding virtual SDR FrontEnd * [Platform] VirtualSDR first time integreted into PicoScenes architecture ## May 1, 2021 * [Platform] Improve the robustness of the internet connection checking * [Platform] Add hint for PicoScenes update. ## Apr. 30, 2021 * [USRFrontEnd] Fix a decoding bug in SDR FrontEnd ## Apr. 28, 2021 * [Platform, USRFrontEnd] Add preciseTxTime option for TxParameter ## Apr. 23, 2021 * [SDRBaseband] Add fine-grained SFO estimation! (based on Pilot CSI) * [Platform] Add PicoScenes Platform update checking * [SDRBaseband] Exporting legacy CSI Individual (two successive CSI measurements from the L-LTF section) instead of the merged * [SDRBaseband] Fix bug in resampling * [rxs-parsing-core] Fix a bug in SignalMatrix storage order ## Apr. 22, 2021 * [SDRBaseband, rxs-parsing-core, USRPFrontEnd] Pilot CSI interation done ## Apr. 21, 2021 * [SDRBaseband] Fix a small bug in HT-rate AMPDU * [Platform] Add MSDU decoding for the overheard 802.11 MAC frames * [SDRBaseband] Adding Pilot CSI output * [rxs-parsing-core] Upgrade the CSISegment format to v3, adding *numCSI* property to CSIDimension ## Apr. 20, 2021 * [Platform] Add PicoScenes system integrity check. ## Apr. 19, 2021 * [Platform] Improve robustness ## Apr. 13, 2021 * [Platform] Add an error hint for single NIC case ## Apr. 9, 2021 * [Platform] Fix the Java dependency issue ## Apr. 8, 2021 * [Platform] Fix the *fping command not found* issue ## Apr. 6, 2021 * [Platform] Add support for macOS ## Apr. 5, 2021 * [Platform] Add dependency for .ini file manipulation ## Apr. 3, 2021 * [Platform] Add support for USRP name/resource/addr/type identifier * [Platform] Improve the performance of USRP device discovery & initialization ## Apr. 1, 2021 * [Platform] Fix a bug in software update ## Mar. 30, 2021 * [RxS-Parsing-Core] Support Windows platfrom using MinGW64 v8.1 ## Mar. 26, 2021 * [Platform] Add support for USRP B200 series ## Mar. 19, 2021 * [Platform] Change .deb dependency settings, clean some old code. * [Platform] Add kernel version checking ## Mar. 18, 2021 * [Platform] Add Aliyun based internet connection checking ## Mar. 13, 2021 * [Installation] Add EULA confirmation * [Platform] Improve safety * [Platform] Add sha256 computation for shared libraries * [Driver] Optimize permission settings * [Driver/Platform] Change version to 20210313 * [Platform] Fix a bug in CSI data access ## Mar. 10, 2021 * [Platform] Adding debconf-based installation UI * [Platform] Faster system integrity test * [Platform] Add copyright infomation via --version option * [Platform] Adding help information ## Mar. 9, 2021 * [Platform] Add expiration mechanism * [Platform] Exclude some developers' tools from the end-user release ## Mar. 5, 2021 * [Platform] Add SystemTools::Time namespace, add conversion methods among time_point, duration, time_t, timespec and timeval ## Mar. 4, 2021 * [Platform] Refine hint message for QCA9300/IWL5300 * [Platform] Refine device discovery experience ## Mar. 3, 2021 * [Platform] Add system security check * [Platform] Escalate the privileges during the first run * [Platform] Reject root user ## Mar. 2, 2021 * [SDRBaseband] Add LDPC decoding method selection ## Feb. 25, 2021 * [SDRBaseband] Compile with -ffast-math to improve performance * [SDRBaseband] Baseband Rx parameters add settings for LDPC decoding ## Feb. 23, 2021 * [IWL5300] Fix bug in auto de-permutation for ant_sel value * [Driver] Update driver version to 20210222, add support for AP/Client mode CSI measurement on IWL5300 * [Platform] Fix bug in multi-USRP shutdown sequence ## Feb. 21, 2021 * [Platform] Improve the robustness of Platform shutdown sequence * [Platform] Temporarily disable ctrl+c for faster shutdown * [Extra] Add CrashMessageViewer * [IWL5300] Fix an old bug in STS/MCS settings * [SDRBaseband] Fix a bug in HE-SU/MU CSI extraction * [IWL5300] Add NonHT rate transmission capability ## Feb. 20, 2021 * [SodiumWrapper] Add new encryption/decryption facilities * [Platform] Add PicoScenes shutdown sequence, fix several bug, better display during shutdown sequence * [Platform] Add ctrl+c response * [Platform] Platform can now capture the unhandled exception and print the encrypted backtrace * [SDRBaseband] New Baseband, add RxCPOffset and pilotTrackingMethod options * [USRPFrontEnd] Add rx-cp-offset option ## Feb. 19, 2021 * [USRPFrontend] Improve robustness in stopTx ## Feb. 18, 2021 * [rxs-parsing-core] Fix a bug in CSI parsing for QCA9300 w/ numESS>0 * [rxs-parsing-core] Fix a bug in CSI parsing for IWL5300 w/ numESS>0 * [rxs-parsing-core] Rename ChannelMode to ChannelModeEnum, and move it to PicoScenesCommons.hxx/cxx * [rxs-parsing-core] Add V2 CSI data format parser, which specify subcarrierIndexOffset explicitly * [Platform] Update PicoScenes Driver dependency to 20210218 * [IWL5300] Improve robustness of array_prepare_for_picoscenes for IWL5300 ## Jan. 30, 2021 * [SDRBaseband] Improve USRP responsiveness during round-trip measurement * Add changelog.md