#Software defined radio course software#

The internship offers a valuable opportunity to get a deep understanding about the interplay of computer science and communications engineering by studying an existing SDR framework employed in a live setup with real radio frontends. This course describes various components of software-defined-radios with the understanding of their limitation and.

#Software defined radio course software#

In particular, the focus lies on adapting, simulating and implementing existing receiver algorithms (or design new ones) for timing acquisition, carrier frequency and phase estimation, channel estimation under various performance constraints. Software-defined radio (SDR) is an inherent part of the modern communication system, where many processes, which used to be implemented in hardware, are defined in the software domain for flexibility and configurability. The internshipвЂ™s purpose is to design and implement digital signal processing blocks on an existing software defined radio (SDR) framework. Since in the past decades general purpose computers have made huge leaps in both computing power and memory size, thus implementing radio communication blocks in software has become an attractive solution for going beyond simulations and move towards prototyping computationally intensive communication algorithms. At DLR, solutions based on advanced random access schemes employing both strong error-correcting codes and multi-user detection techniques have been designed, analyzed and tested mainly through simulations. In the last few years the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm has arisen in communications: a massive number of devices need to communicate via a wireless medium to deliver (sporadically) small data units to a common gateway.