[cr-india] 'smart radio' challenge

[sajan venniyoor]

Could you circulate this among your more tech-savvy friends? 

Arun and Vickram could explain why cognitive radios are simply the best way to get around the supposed shortage of spectrum. It's worth encouraging in India, where the government is adopting a western model that was discredited many years ago, and the spectrum is increasingly treated as a tradable commodity rather than a self-regulating commons.

Sajan

SDR Forum announces smart radio challenge 
04/11/2006, EE Times 

MANHASSET, N.Y. — The SDR Forum has announced the first Smart Radio Challenge, a global competition in which student engineering teams design, develop and test a software defined radio (SDR).
The Smart Radio Challenge is open to student teams from all academic institutions interested in SDR and cognitive radio. Registration for Smart Radio Challenge '07 ends May 30.

The Forum also announced the first sponsor of the Smart Radio Challenge: The MathWorks, a leading developer of technical computing and model-based design software for engineers and scientists. As a major sponsor, The MathWorks will provide its Matlab and Simulink software, train and mentor students throughout the competition, and donate funds to the SDR Forum.

The Smart Radio Challenge will entail multiple phases, including a qualifying round and one or more development rounds. Each student team must build and demonstrate an SDR that addresses a Forum-defined problem and supports a target waveform; the problem can be chosen from several that the Forum will propose in mid-June. 

Teams will submit proposals specific to a defined problem by Sept. 30, and the teams that qualify will be announced at the Forum's annual Technical Conference in November. The teams will then have 10 months to complete their projects and submit them for the Smart Radio Challenge '07 competition.

The SDR Forum will award several prizes after the development phase, and teams already qualified may compete in successive years for the annual prizes, which include monetary grants to the student teams as well as their university departments.
Further details can be found on the Website. 

http://www.eetimes.com/news/design/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=185300433



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