Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GSoC Participation

Hi Rachuri,

thanks for reaching out!
So, you're planning on applying for with own project idea – which is
great; it shows enthusiasm and a high confidence you know what you're
signing up for. Problem is: while for all the ideas on the ideas list
mentors are already assigned, someone from the GNU Radio developer
community would need to be willing to mentor your specific project. At
this point, we don't have someone like that, but I'd assume most of us
haven't even read your mail yet. Still, this increases your risk of not
being accepted if we simply don't find a mentor.

So, because we need to find someone who'd be willing to mentor you,
you'd need to come up with a pretty detailed design plan, so that we
get the picture of what you want to implement. This would especially
mean you'd have to address the foreseeable problems in your proposal.

From the top of my head, these would be dominated by timing
uncertainty, and how to modularly implement things so that e.g. the MAC
mechanism or the flow control can be exchanged. Timing uncertainty is
what usually comes hardest for SDR MACs – you'd need to address how
you'd solve the problem that the delay (between receiving some data to
having detected / calculated a time at which you'd want to send ) might
be pretty random, and also pretty large.

All in all, this is a very open-ended problem, and to me, it sounds
very much like a systems architecture problem that needs to come up
with a clean and useful API that has both some educational value as
well as actually working over the air. A large project, even for
experienced developers!

Best regards,
Marcus

On Sun, 2019-03-10 at 00:43 +0530, Rachuri Sri Pramodh wrote:
> Hi GNU Radio Community!
> I am a pre-final year student in Dept of EECS at IIT Bhilai.
> We were thought about how to use SDRs using GNU Radio during one of our lab courses and also made a small python-code block as an assignment. It was then when I got the idea of making a block for a Datalink layer implementation.
>
> The block would have options to configure Framing, MAC, Addressing, Flow and Error control. If this block is properly implemented, one should be able to develop a small wireless network of multiple SDRs. This block will help students who study Wireless Networks in experimenting and applying various MAC models and even make some of their own.
>
> Later, when I saw GNU Radio among the list of GSoC's participating companies, I got really excited and wrote this mail. Please let me know your thoughts on this proposal for my GSoC's entry.
> I wrote a very brief description of my proposal here and I am ready to submit a very detailed proposal soon if asked for.
>
> Regards
> Rachuri Sri Pramodh,
> B. Tech 3rd Year,
> Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences,
> IIT Bhilai
>
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