21–25 Sept 2026
Talley Student Union
America/New_York timezone
GRCon26 Call for Participation is Now Open

Implementation and Testing of Multi-Antenna Techniques using GNU Radio and Low-Cost SDR Hardware

23 Sept 2026, 13:00
2h
3222 (Talley Student Union)

3222

Talley Student Union

Workshop Practical applications using GNURadio Workshop

Speaker

Carl Dietrich (Virginia Tech and Software Defined Radio Solutions, LLC)

Description

This workshop will demonstrate use of GNU Radio and low-cost SDR hardware such as the Pluto Plus and RTL-SDR to develop and employ multi-antenna techniques to improve signal detection. Examples will include selection diversity, equal-gain combining, maximal ratio combining, and one or more blind adaptive beamforming techniques such as the least-squares constant modulus algorithm (LS-CMA), potentially in combination with time-domain interference cancelation. Development of test harnesses and experimental scenarios for demonstration and performance characterization of these techniques will also be described. Candidate software-based approaches to synchronize low-cost single-channel receivers, such as the RTL-SDRs with 0.5 ppm frequency stability, potentially with sufficient precision to enable the above-mentioned techniques without hardware modification to the receivers, will be presented and their performance characterized using hardware/software test harnesses. Relevant blocks and flow graphs developed by the presenters will be available for download and use under open-source license, e.g., GPL 3 or MIT, to be determined in coordination with the conference organizers.

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Link to Open Source Code https://buymeacoffee.com/sdrswireless/extras
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Authors

Carl Dietrich (Virginia Tech and Software Defined Radio Solutions, LLC) Dr Dimitri Dessources (Software Defined Radio Solutions, LLC)

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