I have not found the downlaod link of the submitted papers. Can you tell me
where they are? Do i have to pay to access those papers?

Also for the other answers, what i am most interested in is SDR software.
What is gnu radio place in the most cuttign edge technology available for SDR
software and how it compares to other products like SDR# etc.



2016-02-23 17:09 GMT-03:00 Maicon Kist <maiconk...@gmail.com>:

> You probably will want to look at the papers published in this call for
> papers:
>
> http://www.comsoc.org/commag/cfp/software-defined-radio-20-years-later
>
>
>
> On February 23, 2016 at 17:05:49, Mabel Pita (mabel.pita2...@gmail.com)
> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Thank you so much for your answers.
> Maybe i did not express myself correctly in my original mail.
> I am taking a course on SDRs at my university, and an assignment is to do
> some research about SDRs, especially on the state of the art of SDR, by
> this i mean, the most cutting edge technology that is available nowadays on
> the field. I have not been able to found information about this on the
> internet, just different frameworks used for developing SDRs. However, i
> have  to justify somehow, that gnu radio is useful for serious academical
> research and not a program for modest projects (not that i think that is
> this way but i have to justify it somehow). For example, quote some
> important projects developed in gnuradio, or important companies working
> with gnu radio, etc.
>
> Are there any books or papers that investigate this matter, and explain
> thoroughly what is the most advanced technology to perform virtualization
> of signal processing and why gnu radio is a good choice for this task?
>
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> 2016-02-22 18:22 GMT-03:00 Michael Berman <mrberma...@gmail.com>:
>
>> Mabel,
>>
>> I am kind of confused as to what you mean by "state of the art".  I
>> personally would consider any SDR to be pretty state of the art; it has
>> been around for some years, but it is by no means common place.
>>
>> Being unfamiliar with SDRsharp, a quick google search and read through of
>> their website seems that the software is tuned fairly narrowly towards
>> their custom hardware which would be quite lacking in many more advanced
>> applications due to its USB 2.0 interface.  From this, you can only take a
>> look at up to 10 MHz of spectrum at a time, and the overall bandwidth of
>> the product seems like it may be a nuance for some applications as it will
>> only go from 20 MHz to 1.8 GHz.  Also, the SDRsharp software states it can
>> be used "with their partner hardware".  If you are setting up a learning
>> environment, this may be restrictive in terms of capabilities of testing
>> and system designs by their and their partners hardware limitations.  One
>> last thing, their software seems to be closed source.  You cannot make
>> changes or see how things are done internally, all you have is the API.
>>
>> GNURadio is 100% open sourced and will work with a myriad of just about
>> any SDR hardware out there.  All that needs to be done is a small interface
>> set of code be written to conform the hardware with GNURadio's code
>> structure.  With this, as long as there is even an API for a hardware
>> device, it is feasible that any hardware could be interface with and use
>> GNURadio (there is already such code available for the airspy which is the
>> base hardware for SDRsharp).  Also, with GNURadio being open source, if you
>> wonder the exact algorithm that something is using, you can go look at the
>> source code.  Also, if there is something extremely custom that would be
>> much better off with a custom code block than piecing it together with
>> pre-defined blocks.
>>
>> From my point of view (having used GNURadio for an academic project) I
>> would much prefer GNURadio.  Being open source and having a community
>> backing it as it does let's you actually learn what's going on, instead of
>> taking it at as a black box, and never really knowing how things work at a
>> lower level.
>>
>>
>> Hope my rant finds some use.
>>
>>
>> Michael Berman
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 12:48 PM, Mabel Pita <mabel.pita2...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am just starting to get into the world of SDRs, and i have been
>>> looking for information about SDRs state of the art, and this is when i
>>> found GNURadio and SDRsharp as the top contenders.
>>> I know that i am writing to the gnuradio mailing list so i wont talk
>>> about its competitors, but can someone tell me in an objective way whether
>>> gnuradio is considered state of the art in the matter of sdrs?
>>>
>>> Are there any books / sites that treat this subject in a thorough
>>> manner? I am doing this for a course at my college and it requires as a
>>> first step to get a good knowledge of the state of the art in sdrs.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
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