Re: Introduction and GSoC Questions - Ziad Haithem

Hi Ziad,

Welcome! You are using the mailing list perfectly.

Our ideas list includes projects that are currently available. You are welcome to propose your own idea; however, as you noted, that would require finding a mentor for the project.

Regarding the 5G scanner, I believe this has already been implemented. We have several other exciting projects listed for this year that may interest you.

Cheers,

Johannes

On Fri, 6 Mar 2026, 18:50 Ziad Haithem 202201027, <s-ziad.fahmy@zewailcity.edu.eg> wrote:

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

www.zewailcity.edu.eg

0120 205 7175

Whatsapp number - 0109 479 1824

Virus-free.www.avast.com