Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Report on university course based on DARPA Spectrum Challenge

[Tom Rondeau]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Fraida Fund  wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> I was a participant in the DARPA Spectrum Challenge last year.  Inspired
> by the Challenge, I developed a new course in which students learned about
> wireless communications and software radio in the context of a Spectrum
> Challenge-like competition. It was offered for the first time in Fall 2014
> at the University of Thessaly, Greece, to a group of about 20 undergraduate
> and masters students in the Department of Electrical and Computer
> Engineering. Since the course may be of interest to some in this group, I
> am sharing more information about it here.
>
> The infrastructure for the course (lab materials, software radios, compute
> devices, software and other utilities) were hosted by WITest
> , the GENI wireless testbed at
> the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering.
>
> In the first half of the course, students studied wireless communication
> and software radio basics through lectures and guided lab exercises. On
> their midterm exam, 50% of the points were earned by answering questions
> from this mailing list
> 
> :)
>
> In the second half of the course, students (in teams) developed software
> radios and competed against one another in a format similar to the Spectrum
> Challenge. Students also presented their designs in a poster session
> attended by other faculty in the department. Two prizes were awarded: one
> for "the best innovative idea" from among the designs implemented for the
> competition (selected by the faculty committee), and one for the team that
> won the tournament.
>
> The results (tournament visualizations, student posters, photos) are
> available on this page
> 
> for interested readers.
>
> I'd be happy to answer any questions about this course.
>
> Best,
>
> Fraida Fund
> Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
> NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering
>
>
Great stuff, thanks for sharing!

Tom
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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Report on university course based on DARPA Spectrum Challenge

[sreeraj r]

Farida,

Nice work.
I believe your students will also be interested in IEEE spectrum sharing
challenge [1].

[1] http://dyspan2015.ieee-dyspan.org/content/5g-spectrum-sharing-challenge

-- 
Regards
Sreeraj Rajendran

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 9:16 PM, Fraida Fund  wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> I was a participant in the DARPA Spectrum Challenge last year.  Inspired
> by the Challenge, I developed a new course in which students learned about
> wireless communications and software radio in the context of a Spectrum
> Challenge-like competition. It was offered for the first time in Fall 2014
> at the University of Thessaly, Greece, to a group of about 20 undergraduate
> and masters students in the Department of Electrical and Computer
> Engineering. Since the course may be of interest to some in this group, I
> am sharing more information about it here.
>
> The infrastructure for the course (lab materials, software radios, compute
> devices, software and other utilities) were hosted by WITest
> , the GENI wireless testbed at
> the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering.
>
> In the first half of the course, students studied wireless communication
> and software radio basics through lectures and guided lab exercises. On
> their midterm exam, 50% of the points were earned by answering questions
> from this mailing list
> 
> :)
>
> In the second half of the course, students (in teams) developed software
> radios and competed against one another in a format similar to the Spectrum
> Challenge. Students also presented their designs in a poster session
> attended by other faculty in the department. Two prizes were awarded: one
> for "the best innovative idea" from among the designs implemented for the
> competition (selected by the faculty committee), and one for the team that
> won the tournament.
>
> The results (tournament visualizations, student posters, photos) are
> available on this page
> 
> for interested readers.
>
> I'd be happy to answer any questions about this course.
>
> Best,
>
> Fraida Fund
> Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
> NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering
>
>
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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Report on university course based on DARPA Spectrum Challenge

[Martin Braun]

Fraida,

this is very, very cool! As a former university guy myself, I very much
enjoy people getting creative and thinking outside of the "industry
standard software" box.

Any chance you can have the students directly answer these questions on
the mailing list, and in time? :D

Another suggestion for something that you and other department folk
could do to get more exposure is to set up a github organization
account. At CEL, we used that to publish our own free software projects
and encouraged students to contribute -- I dare say we have helped the
one or the other student with their job applications by providing a
publically visible platform on which their work can be found.

Cheers,
M

On 02/11/2015 09:16 PM, Fraida Fund wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I was a participant in the DARPA Spectrum Challenge last year.  Inspired
> by the Challenge, I developed a new course in which students learned
> about wireless communications and software radio in the context of a
> Spectrum Challenge-like competition. It was offered for the first time
> in Fall 2014 at the University of Thessaly, Greece, to a group of about
> 20 undergraduate and masters students in the Department of Electrical
> and Computer Engineering. Since the course may be of interest to some in
> this group, I am sharing more information about it here.
>  
> The infrastructure for the course (lab materials, software radios,
> compute devices, software and other utilities) were hosted by WITest
> , the GENI wireless testbed at
> the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering.
> 
> In the first half of the course, students studied wireless communication
> and software radio basics through lectures and guided lab exercises. On
> their midterm exam, 50% of the points were earned by answering questions
> from this mailing list
> 
> :) 
> 
> In the second half of the course, students (in teams) developed software
> radios and competed against one another in a format similar to the
> Spectrum Challenge. Students also presented their designs in a poster
> session attended by other faculty in the department. Two prizes were
> awarded: one for "the best innovative idea" from among the designs
> implemented for the competition (selected by the faculty committee), and
> one for the team that won the tournament.
> 
> The results (tournament visualizations, student posters, photos) are
> available on this page
> 
> for interested readers.
> 
> I'd be happy to answer any questions about this course.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Fraida Fund
> Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
> NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering
> 
> 
> 
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[Discuss-gnuradio] Report on university course based on DARPA Spectrum Challenge

[Fraida Fund]

Hi all,

I was a participant in the DARPA Spectrum Challenge last year.  Inspired by
the Challenge, I developed a new course in which students learned about
wireless communications and software radio in the context of a Spectrum
Challenge-like competition. It was offered for the first time in Fall 2014
at the University of Thessaly, Greece, to a group of about 20 undergraduate
and masters students in the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering. Since the course may be of interest to some in this group, I
am sharing more information about it here.

The infrastructure for the course (lab materials, software radios, compute
devices, software and other utilities) were hosted by WITest
, the GENI wireless testbed at
the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering.

In the first half of the course, students studied wireless communication
and software radio basics through lectures and guided lab exercises. On
their midterm exam, 50% of the points were earned by answering questions
from this mailing list

:)

In the second half of the course, students (in teams) developed software
radios and competed against one another in a format similar to the Spectrum
Challenge. Students also presented their designs in a poster session
attended by other faculty in the department. Two prizes were awarded: one
for "the best innovative idea" from among the designs implemented for the
competition (selected by the faculty committee), and one for the team that
won the tournament.

The results (tournament visualizations, student posters, photos) are
available on this page

for interested readers.

I'd be happy to answer any questions about this course.

Best,

Fraida Fund
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering
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