I wasn’t able to spend much time this week due to conflicting deadlines. I finished setting up picoscenes initially, and then mostly worked on getting the Polite Wifi mechanism to work, but my understanding of Scapy (python library for packet sniffing and injection) is still incomplete and my laptop only has one wifi card than can’t do packet injection and monitoring at once. I needed a wifi usb-dongle for myself anyway, so I ordered one with the same wifi chip used in the paper. Having one would also help with PicoScenes as it requires me to set my one wifi chip in my laptop in monitor mode, which disables me from using the internet. It should be arriving this weekend, with which I would be able to test better.
Despite this week not being too productive, I am still on schedule. For next week, I plan to use Scapy to successfully sniff mac addresses of devices, and also get polite wifi to work. I also will work with PicoScenes to have some scripts that can measure CSI. Courses that helped the design for me were 18-213 and 18-349.