Re: Join the Radio Resilience Competition!

[Matt Knight]

Hello GNU Radio community,

The Radio Resilience Competition is in full swing, and we want you to join!

The competition invites competitors to build the best GNU Radio-based transceivers they can, and then pit their creations against a series of simulated RF challenges designed to push them to their limits.  Matches take place in an open-source virtual testbed we've developed called the Simulator and are run weekly.  Visit here to recap the action from Sunday's match: [https://youtu.be/YoFv0yPYU0M?t=295]

We are exactly halfway through our fall season, but it's not too late to join!  We have two more scrimmages on 12/13 and 12/20, followed by a final event on 12/27 to wrap up the season.  All are welcome and encouraged to participate!

Getting started takes minutes.  First, visit [https://radioresilience.com/] and follow the registration link to get credentialed.  Next, clone the Simulator [https://gitlab.com/radio-resilience/simulator] and follow the steps in the README to build your competition-ready transceiver and be entered in our weekly matches.

Check out our GRcon talk to learn more [https://youtu.be/txsN7sTGSVY?t=11], and feel free to reach out directly if you have any questions.  I hope you will consider competing!

Best,
Matt, on behalf of the Radio Resilience Competition organizers

ps -- Even if you don't plan on competing, I hope you will consider playing with the Simulator.  It uses docker-compose to spin up a series of virtual transceivers that can interact with one another over a simulated channel.  We think it's pretty neat, and we hope you will too.

On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 8:07 PM Matt Knight <matt@radioresilience.com> wrote:

Hello GNU Radio community,

This fall, Radio Resilience LLC will be hosting a competition to set a new standard in durable radio physical layers.  Dubbed the Radio Resilience Competition (RRC), competitors are invited to pit their software-defined transceivers up against a variety of noisy and contested channels to develop the most resilient high performance RF PHY they can muster.

RRC will take place entirely virtually on GNU Radio-based infrastructure.  Competitors will be provided a fully open source simulated RF testbed in which they can develop and test their software-defined transceivers purely in software.  Additionally, competitors will be provided with a fully functional reference transceiver to make getting started easy.  The RF testbed will be available in the next few weeks, with the competition to take place later this fall.

The Radio Resilience Competition was ideated by Sid Sijbrandij, the CEO of GitLab and a passionate radio enthusiast.  Inspired by prior radio contests like DARPA's Spectrum Challenges, Sid has enlisted alumni of these challenges to design and run RRC.

As a GNU Radio enthusiast myself, I hope you will find participating in the Radio Resilience Challenge to be interesting and fulfilling.  I hope you will consider competing, and I look forward to seeing what we create together!

Sign up for more info: https://forms.gle/De6SSJFZjNXPzV9p9

RRC website: https://radioresilience.com

Best,
Matt, on behalf of Radio Resilience LLC