GRCon20 - Radio Resilience Competition

Presented by Matt Knight, Marc Newlin and Sid Sijbrandij at GNU Radio Conference 2020 https://gnuradio.org/grcon20 This fall, the Radio Resilience Competition (RRC) will challenge competitors to develop robust and high-performance software-defined radio transceivers capable of performing in a variety of noisy and contested channels. Organized by alumni of the DARPA spectrum challenges, RRC will take place virtually on an open-source GNU Radio-based RF testbed, enabling a diverse base of competitors to participate without needing any SDR hardware. Competitors can leverage the simulation testbed locally to develop and and exercise their software-defined radio transceivers, and will be provided with a fully-functional reference transceiver supporting a variety of modulation and error correction schemes. This session will introduce the goals of RRC and the structure of the competition, followed by a technical deep-dive into the competition infrastructure. Of note, we’ll cover how we simulate radio nodes using a containerized, GNU Radio-based architecture, how our match running and scoring system works, and how these systems were informed by our participation in DARPA’s SDR challenges. Sign up for more info: https://forms.gle/De6SSJFZjNXPzV9p9 RRC website: https://radioresilience.com (note: this competition has no affiliation with DARPA or the aforementioned challenges)