Dear GNU Radio Community, My name is Ziad Haithem, and I am a Communication and Information Engineering student from Egypt. I am writing to introduce myself and ask a few questions regarding GSoC.
I have a strong interest in communication systems and DSP, so I was quite excited to see GNU Radio participating in GSoC this year. I wanted to share a quick story about my experience with SDR last semester in my Digital & Wireless Communication course. Our project was to transmit audio or images wirelessly. We used LabVIEW and two NI USRPs. My teammates and I decided to be ambitious and build an OFDM-based system. Creating the OFDM system in LabVIEW, debugging the issues, and finally transmitting audio over a distance of just a few centimeters was one of the most painfully educational experiences I've had in college. I came out of it with one big realization: theory is great, but the things that were a nightmare to deal with were the practical issues you rarely think about in a classroom—managing buffers and limited memory, synchronizing everything so your demodulation isn't ruined by being off by a single sample, and getting creative with debugging techniques just to figure out what was breaking. I feel like developing the skills to tackle these exact issues can only come from actually building and contributing to real-world communication systems, which is why I am so eager to get involved with GNU Radio. Regarding GSoC, I had a few questions I was hoping the community could help clarify: 1. When it comes to the list of projects from previous years, are all the projects mentioned still available to be proposed this year, or are the ones that had a student attached to them already considered complete? 2. I wanted to get in contact with the mentors of one of last year's projects (the 5G cell scanner). Their names are listed; however, I don't see any actual contact info for them. Lastly, this is the first time I have used a mailing list. I apologize if I have broken any etiquette; please let me know if I have, and where an email like this one would be more appropriate to send. Thank you for your time, and I look forward to contributing. Sincerely, Ziad - Ziad Haithem Fahmy ID:202201027 Communications and Information Engineering Student Zewail City of Science, Technology and Innovation Ahmed Zewail Road, October Gardens, Giza 12578, Egypt <https://goo.gl/maps/bbNTX7EMrbZA1Lhu7> www.zewailcity.edu.eg 0120 205 7175 Whatsapp number - 0109 479 1824 <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> Virus-free.www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>
