Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GSOC 2014 project proposal ?

[Martin Braun]

Damian,

your project sounds very interesting, specifically project 1 (I would
love to be able to simulate GPS reception of random locations and times
in my lab).

Have you checked the http://gnss-sdr.org/ website? They don't use GNU
Radio, but it would still overlap a lot with what you're suggesting.

As you've probably read, we can't promise to find a mentor for this. But
the idea sounds interesting! I recommend you go the usual route of
setting up a proposal.

Martin


On 03/10/2014 02:19 PM, Damian Miralles wrote:
> Hello:
> I wrote to the maillist a previous email with no response. I re-send
> it in case the team does not have the chance to check it. I would be
> very thankfull if the team would let me know if GNU Radio is
> interested in this kind of approach for GSOC 2014.
> My name is Damian Miralles, I am a senior computer engineering
> students at the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico. I am very
> interested inparticipating into the GSOC 2014 program and saw some of
> the ideas posted there by Gnu Radio. I have a previous experience
> working with GNU Radio  developing customs blocks for SDR
> applications. The reason why I am writing is because I would like to
> migrate some of the experience I have gained during the last year into
> the GNURadio platform using the GSOC 2014 program.
> Below is a description of the two possible projects that I would to
> propose to the GNU Radio group, I will be really thankful if anyone
> would let me know if it's of GNU Radio's interest.
> 
> 1- GPS L1-L2/GALILEO Signal Generation
>  The GNU-Radio project includes excellent libraries for SDR, but
> sometimes a piece of hardware is required to test the code or develop
> new concepts. The idea behind this project would be to provide the GNU
> Radio project with the  ability of generate raw GPS/Galileo signal
> through software. Those generated signals would be realistic in terms
> of noise addition, multipath, interference etc. With this capability
> the user of GNU Radio would be able to control certains parameters in
> the data simulated and test if the algorithms developed for reception
> are suitable. I could easily offer more details on how to create it,
> here it is only offer a basic idea.
> 2- GPS toolkit.
> Create GPS receivers capable of performing the GNSS lock, the kit
> would include the basic approach for GPS signal acquisition, which
> include the "Parallel Code Search", "Parallel Frequency Search", etc.
> In addition I plan to include new techniques for GNSS signal
> acquisition based on the work developed in:
> http://people.csail.mit.edu/fadel/papers/quicksync-paper.pdf
> 
> Please I know the mailing list have a lot of work to due but If
> someone would let me know if it is of GNU Radio interest would be
> perfect.
> 
> Thanks
>