Software Defined Radio

Type of study	Doctoral
Language of instruction	English
Code	450-6020/02
Abbreviation	SDR
Course title	Software Defined Radio
Credits	10
Coordinating department	Department of Cybernetics and Biomedical Engineering
Course coordinator	prof. Ing. Radek Martinek, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

The subject is focused on:
a) The use of software defined radio (SDR) and virtual instrumentation
(VI) based cognitive radio in the design and optimization of modern transmission systems.
b) Generating and analyzing digitally modulated signals, including SDR-based channel modeling tool using VI.
c) Advanced signal processing methods in modern radio networks - design and optimization of adaptive equalization methods (transmission channel
equalization) using SDR and VI.
d) Implementation of proposed and optimized methods (modulation, coding, equalization, etc.) on real hardware in the form of PXI (PCI eXtensions for Instrumentation) modular system and USRP (Universal Software Radio Peripheral) system based on SDR and VI.

Upon completion of this course, students should be able to design, implement, optimize, and verify modern transmission systems based on software-defined radio using virtual instrumentation.

Literature

[1] Rohde, U. L., Zahnd, H., & Whitaker, J. C. (2017). Communications receivers: principles and design. McGraw-Hill Education.
[2] Arslan, H. (Ed.). (2007). Cognitive radio, software defined radio, and adaptive wireless systems. Springer Science & Business Media.
[3] Zhang, Y., Zheng, J., & Chen, H. H. (Eds.). (2016). Cognitive radio networks: architectures, protocols, and standards. CRC press.
[4] Hu, F. (Ed.). (2016). Opportunities in 5G networks: A research and development perspective. CRC press.

Advised literature

[1] Stewart, R. W., Barlee, K. W., Atkinson, D. S., & Crockett, L. H. (2015). Software defined radio using MATLAB & Simulink and the RTL-SDR. Strathclyde Academic Media.
[2] Grayver, E. (2012). Implementing software defined radio. Springer Science & Business Media.
[3] Spiridon, S. (2016). Toward 5G software defined radio receiver front-ends (Vol. 96). Springer.

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