Re: GSOC proposal

Hi Kayla,

thanks for sharing your current proposal on the forward error correction project idea from our GSoC ideas page.
Overall it looks well written and it contains all required elements.
We have collected some feedback for you:

- In the proposal you mention that many of the current FEC blocks in GNU Radio are implemented in Python. This is actually not correct, as most FEC is implemented in C++ and made available in Python through a wrapper. This is a common technique employed throughout GNU Radio and also for new blocks it is a requirement to have a Python wrapper (which is easy to implement since GNU Radio comes with a framework for that).

- It would be very useful to develop a testbench (e.g. with a corresponding flowgraph) to compare the performance in terms of throughput, but also error correction capability, of existing blocks in GNU Radio with newly developed/integrated blocks e.g. using Aff3ct (which duplicate exisiting blocks like LDPC or viterbi decoders).

Cheers,
Andrej

> On 23. Mar 2024, at 10:07, Kayla Comer <kmcomer2002@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello, I have attached a draft of my proposal for the forward error correction project. Please let me know what could improve for the final submission
>
> Best,
> Kayla Comer
> <kmcomer_gnuradio_gsoc_proposal.pdf>