capturing the full band of GSM1800 (wideband) needs more bandwidth than
USRP2 can handle at baseband . its impossible to capture all the band and
send it up to PC . so maybe parts of the work needs to be done on FPGA .
USRP2's FPGA us Spartan3 and it has enough room for this ,i suppose .
anybody here can confirm this ?


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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: sascha <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 2:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [A51] USRP2
> To: [email protected]
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>
> On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 04:24:27AM -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 4:03 AM, p q <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > even USRP2 is not good for capturing GSM1800 traffic so we are stuck
> with
> > > GSM900 only . is this correct ?
> >
> > I have no clue why you couldn't capture up and downlink with two separate
> > RX daughter boards on USRP1.
> >
> > The USRP2 ADC does complex sampling at 100mhz, so it can capture a 100mhz
> > bandpass. It can't cram that much over the ethernet but someone could
> > create a FPGA image that grabs two 10mhz windows separated by the 90mhz
> offset.
> > I don't know if any of the existing daughter boards have a bandpass that
> wide.
>
> people at airprobe.org can give better answers to those questions than we
> can.
> With the proper programming of the USRP hardware you should be able to
> capture up and downlink of a conversation with ease with a single DB since
> even the cheapest handset can do it.
> The disadvantage of the attacker is that after encryption is enabled and
> before the key is found, the channel allocation and frequency hopping
> sequence is renegotiated between BTS and handset. So you end up having to
> record the whole band (and also both up and downlink), so that you can
> later extract from that the bursts at the correct time offset and
> frequency.
> The whole band is shared between all the networks though, but whether that
> sharing means that ARFCNs belonging to one network are adjacent is unclear
> belonging to one network are adjacent is unclear (to me).
> The people at airprobe.org can give a more detailed answer to that.
> The proper solution would be to have a single USRP with 2 daughterboards
> and do the demodulation on the FPGA, but i doubt the FPGA is beefy enough
> for that.
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