Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] (GSoC) MIMO stuff in GNU Radio

[Martin Braun]

On 02/18/2014 05:14 PM, YiZiRui Zhou wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm Zhou, a graduate student now. I'm pretty interested in MIMO systems,
> especially Multiuser-MIMO, since it can increase the total throughput of
> the network significantly. But to the best of my knowledge, there seems
> no related standard blocks (gr-mimo or something) to achieve this in GNU
> Radio, few tutorials or examples are available either. 
> 
> Currently, I'm working on a project to build a Multiuser-MIMO system
> based on OFDM. The basic requirement of this project is to implement
> Maximal-ratio combining (MRC) and Beamforming on both uplink and
> downlink sides. I notice that there existed an old GSoC project named
> "MIMO stuff" on the GNU Radio GSoC webpage a few months ago, but it is
> disappeared now. So I am wondering if "MIMO stuff" or some related work
> could be a part of GNU Radio GSoC 2014? If so, what kind of work it
> would be? Looking forward to get more details on it!

I *could* -- depending on whether or not we find a mentor suitable. In
any case, it would be up to *you* to write a good project proposal. You
would have to detail what exactly you would be working on for 3 months,
how it benefits the GNU Radio project etc.

MB