6th Annual AFRL Software Defined Radio (SDR) University Challenge

AFRL/RY in partnership with Wright Brothers Institute is sponsoring a student challenge to develop software-defined radio (SDR) and software-defined networking (SDN) techniques in a competitive, tournament-based environment.  At the 19 April Showcase, students will demonstrate fundamental skills in SDR designs and applications and demonstrate novel research supporting distributed sensing and communications technologies.  The goals of the SDR Challenge are to:

1. Encourage innovative under-graduate and graduate-level SDR research.
2. Increase the number of students interested in SDR research.

A total of 17 University Teams across 16 Universities and 10 States participated in this year’s challenge which began in Sept 2023, and ran the full academic year – the Challenge culminates with the top teams demonstrating their results with live demos at the 19 April Showcase.   Participating teams received SDR kits along with relevant training materials to help prepare for the challenge.  Winning team will receive a cash prize of $5000.  Prizes made possible by corporate sponsorship form MATRIX Research, National Instruments, Mathworks, and the Kittyhawk Chapter of the AOC.

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Detailed Schedule (subject to change):

• 9:00 – 10:00 AM: Welcome and Participant Intros

• • SDR Challenge Overview | Dr. Steve Hary, AFRL
  • University Project Overviews | UCONN, Dayton, Ga Tech, Louisville, North Carolina St., Ohio St. Texas A&M Commerce, Wright State

• 10:00-11:30 AM: Networking and University Team Demos
• 11:30-11:45 AM: Awards Ceremony & Presentation of Team awards
• 11:15 AM – 12:30 PM: Networking and University Team Demos (Cont)

University Projects on Display

1. UCONN: Preamble Defined Physical Layer Network Slicing
2. University of Dayton: Low Power to High Power Signal transformation
3. Georgia Tech: Accurate time of flight estimation between 2 radios
4. University of Louisville: 5G Dynamic Network Slicing over SDR for eMBB and URLLC Applications
5. North Carolina St: Multimedia transmission with distributed wireless systems
6. Ohio State: THE SDR Team
7. Texas A&M Commerce: Real Time Implementation of Unitary Root MUSIC and Unitary MUSIC with Real-Valued Rank Revealing Triangular Factorization
8. Wright State & UMASS Dartmouth: High Security LPD Wireless Communication via Joint Radar/Communication Waveform