Geo Wifi Analyzer

INFORMATIONS

What is GWA?

GWA is a tool to measure WiFi coverage at the physical layer and level TCP/UDP that allows:

1. manage buildings and rooms with their dimensions and coordinates

2. manage the position of access points in these rooms

3. perform measurement campaigns in a room with different options:

   • measuring the signal power
   • environmental scan wifi
   • Bandwidth Measurements
   • possibility to force measure on an AP or SSID

4. easily manage the measurement campaigns

5. export the information collected during the measurements as XML format

Why this project?

The tool GWA (Geographical Wifi Analyzer) is a free software in the context of an open source project developed by ESIEE Paris. Each year, students in their final year of the specialty networks participate and contribute to the improvement of the tool since 2008. The aims to find a place in the free world tools in WiFi environment. It offers the following features: Taking measurements, detailed environmental WiFi and extraction of data in XML format

Download

You can download the latest software version at the following address: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gwa/files/

Contact

To contact us: mailto:gwa@esiee.fr

USER GUIDE

• USER GUIDE
  • The module “Site Management”
    • Description
    • Adding an environment
    • Change an environment
    • Add a place
    • Change a place
    • Remove an environment
  • The module “Management of AP’s”
    • Description
    • Add an access point
    • Update an Access Point
    • Delete an access point
  • The module “Measures”
    • Description
    • The environment selection
    • Select a place
    • Selection of a campaign
      • Creation of a campaign
      • Suppression of a campaign
    • Forced connection option
      • Force the connection to only one AP
      • Force the connection to an SSID
    • Scan the environment and Eperf
      • Scan the environment
      • Eperf flow measurements
        • Eperf explanation
    • The measure realization
      • The displacement means
      • Possible actions
      • The exceptions encountered
        • undeclared AP
        • Unassociated AP
        • Fictitious AP
    • The end of the measures
  • “Extraction” module
    • Description
    • Environment selection
    • Place selection
    • Campaign selection
    • APs selection
    • Extraction validation

REFERENCE GUIDE

• REFERENCE GUIDE
  • Database
    • Organization of the DB
    • Complete structure of the DB
      • Table area
      • Table place
      • Table campaign
      • Table ap
      • Table ap_configuration
      • Table measure
      • Table disturbing_ap
    • Administration of PostgreSQL
      • List specific information of databases
  • Creating GUI
    • The tools used
      • PyQt
      • QtDesigner and Pyuic
    • Example
    • Organizing IHM files in GWA
  • Management of documentation with Sphinx
  • File code
    • Organizing files
    • Management of GUI interactions
      • module: ‘main.py’
      • module: ‘code_menu.py’
      • module: ‘code_lieu.py’
      • module: ‘code_AP.py’
      • module: ‘code_extract.py’
      • module: ‘code_measure.py’
    • Modules
      • module: ‘transformation.py’
      • module: ‘DBA.py’
      • module: ‘measurement.py’
      • module: ‘extract.py’
      • module: ‘draw.py’
      • module: ‘popups.py’
    • Eperf
      • module: ‘main.py (Eperf)’
      • module: ‘client_tcp.py’
      • module: ‘server_tcp.py’
      • module: ‘client_udp.py’
      • module: ‘server_udp.py’
      • module: ‘function.py’

TABLES ET INDICES

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page