CRC testbed

SmartCI Research Center at Alexandria University exclusively offers the "Software-defined Radio (SDR)" training summer course to Communication Engineering Graduate and Undergraduate students.

By the end of the course, you will be able to:
- Describe the classes of SDRs, historical trends, and their commercial, military, and aerospace applications.
- Use the hardware elements of an SDR system: the front-end RF system, analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog conversion.
- Couple these hardware elements with the software-defined elements of the radio system: sampling, digital filtering, signal recovery, timing recovery, equalization, and baseband processing.
- Build a functioning SDR system

Update: Registration deadline extended to June 15, 2019

Seats are limited, so hurry up!

We would like to congratulate Dr. Omar Nasr's team from Cairo University for scoring the first place in our cognitive radio competition. We would also like to thank all teams who have participated in the competition.

Due to problems in internet connectivity, the web portal and the controller are currently unreachable. We are working to fix this problem as soon as possible. Sorry for the inconvenience.

What is a Software Defined Radio (SDR)?

It is a radio in which some or all of the physical layer functions are software defined.

SDRs implement most of the physical layer functionalities using software. This enables experimenters and students to test existing physical layer components and develop new ones.

A typical CRC node consists of three interfaces:
1) USRP B210
2) RTL-SDR
3) WiFi module

Both the USRP and the RTL-SDR are software defined radio (SDR) kits

What is a wireless testbed?

A testbed, in general, is a platform for conducting rigorous, transparent, and replicable testing of scientific theories.

A wireless testbed provides the hardware and software necessary to perform wireless experiments. Examples of wireless hardware are Software Defined Radio kits, WiFi devies, Bluetooth module , etc.