My experience at the BMW lab started on Feb. 2014, I discovered
the lab and the labmates, the meetings on Thursday, and
OpenBTS. Everything was new for me.
During the first few weeks, I gathered information about
OpenBTS, how a 2G network is working, what applications for
OpenBTS … I improved my skills by installing OpenBTS, and
studying its code. I also examined some specifications written
by the ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute),
and how it was implemented in the code. I also attended to the
QoS (Quality of Service) course with professor Cheng.
I enjoyed this experience because it brought me a technical
background, about telephone network, C++, specifications … I
also improved my English: every day at lunch I used to eat with
labmates, and we discussed about many things, especially the
Taiwanese culture (food, language, religion …), they really
helped me to und...