Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Need info for paper.

[George Nychis]

Hi John,

There are a couple other SDR-type platforms in the academic world... but 
none really come close to the code base of GR IMO.

Rice has WARP:
http://warp.rice.edu/

Kansas is developing the KU Agile Radio:
http://www.ittc.ku.edu/techreview2005/presentations/Minden_Agile%20Radios.ppt

UCSD has the CalRadio:
http://calradio.calit2.net/

WARP is a very expensive platform IMO, and they are not as modular as 
GNU Radio.  I would say GNU Radio has far more in the PHY layer, and 
WARP has 1 PHY (OFDM) + a bunch of MAC implementations.

The KU Agile radio is still pretty new, Prof. Minden gave a talk here 
about it last semester and it seemed the hardware was pretty concrete 
but the software was still in progress... which is what truly separates 
SDR platforms :)

CalRadio v1 is strict 802.11 based, and the PHY is not flexible.  I 
think their goal was to keep the PHY in hardware and swap out 
daughterboards with different PHYs that you could re-program the MAC on.

- George


John Clark wrote:
> I'm co-writing a paper on the use of GNU Radio. Because I'm inclined to 
> use 'Open Source' solutions,
> GNU Radio and the attendant DSP library, was for me about the only 
> choice I would have made...
>
> However, in the paper I'd like to at least make some attempt at 
> indicating any 'alternatives', if there
> are any in the Open Source arena, or parish the thought, cost-money type 
> packages.
>
> If anyone has done a more detailed evaluation and perhaps has a chart 
> depicting features, that would be
> good.
>
> Also, a while ago, I saw someone who had put together a 'graphical' 
> interface, where one could construct
> a DSP processor using graphical means, and setting various parameters 
> using a GUI. I have not had the
> time to really keep up on that sort of thing, but if there is someone 
> who has something that works, I'd also
> like to know about that.
>
> For those who have information, and send me a release, credit will be 
> made in the paper for their contribution.
>
> Thanks,
> John Clark.
>
>
>
>
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