CRC testbed

CRC testbed CRC is a wireless testbed that enables web/remote access to facilitate research experiments in the f In addition, RTL-SDRs are also connected to CRC nodes.

CRC is a wireless testbed that enables web/remote access to facilitate research experiments in the field of wireless communications and networks. CRC gives its users access to high end wireless hardware like the USRP B210. The USRP B210 is a Software Defined Radio (SDR) that is capable to send and\or receive in the frequency range frequency coverage from 70 MHz – 6 GHz using a instantaneous bandw

idth of 56 MHz. This hardware can be used directly with the provided disk images which all the necessary software. CRC also provides a high end simulation server. It enables users to access virtual machine instances with up to 32 GB RAM and four 2.6 GHz XEON cores free of charge, for periods that can span weeks. Disk images with simulation tools like NS2, NS3 and MININET pre-installed are also provided.

04/05/2019

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!

10/03/2019

Dears,

We are glad to announce the kickoff of the FPGA programming track.

The schedule for this track is as follows:

15 March 2019: end of registration
20,21,22 March 2019: training sessions
13 April 2019: Start of the competition
26 April 2019: End of the competition
29 April 2019: Deadline of results submission
01 May 2019: winners announcement

Admitted teams will be contacted by mail to organize the testbed access and training sessions.

Stay in touch for more news regarding the other tracks (Wireless Comms, IoT).

Dears,We are glad to announce that Collaborative Research Cloud (CRC) will be hosting a new competition this year. CRC i...
28/01/2019

Dears,

We are glad to announce that Collaborative Research Cloud (CRC) will be hosting a new competition this year. CRC is funded by the National Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (NTRA) to build the first testbed federation in Egypt and the MENA region.


During this year competition, teams will be able to participate in one OR more tracks. A number of prizes will be awarded for the winning teams.

Tracks:

1- Wireless Communications (Alexandria University Testbed)

2- FPGA Programming (Cairo University Testbed)

3- IoT Development (Assiut University Testbed)

Eligibility:

The competition is open to all students and researchers across Egypt.

How to Apply:

Please fill in the registration form ( https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeEjGN2YyAdDP_3Li6cpac2qh9s8UEpBJ0FhRXTa1tkduCLVQ/viewform ) with the required information. After careful review, the eligible teams will be contacted in order to attend the training sessions for the testbed. Depending on the number of accepted teams, entrance hurdles my by required from the competing teams in each track.

The CRC testbed currently consists of a number of Software Defined Radio (SDR) nodes specifically: USRP B Series and X300. A powerful simulation server is also available for intensive calculations. FPGA Vertex and Zynq modules along with a number of Arduino and Raspberry PI microcontrollers are also available.

- The competition in Wireless Communications track will focus on the design of an Anti-Jamming transceiver. Teams will be responsible of a number of USRPs and will be required to transmit a certain message under various jamming patterns. The winning team will have the highest throughput. FPGA Programming will investigate the encryption algorithms and how they can be modelled on the available modules. Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the highest emerging technologies. During the competition, teams will investigate the interconnection between modules and will be responsible for specific scenarios setup.

The full description of the competitions in all tracks is available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h___IepNVc67QtYWGAQY0uiVPWGQA42z/view

For any further questions, please contact: [email protected]

Regards,

Collaborative Research Cloud Team.

08/09/2016

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.

15/08/2016

The problem has been resolved and the testbed is currently accessible for the trainees.

11/08/2016

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.

11/07/2016

Hurry up and register your team in our Cognitive Radio Competition
The deadline for team registration is 15 July

22/06/2016

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.

Form your team and compete in our Cognitive Radio Competitionhttp://smartci.alexu.edu.eg/crc/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=crc...
22/06/2016

Form your team and compete in our Cognitive Radio Competition

http://smartci.alexu.edu.eg/crc/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=crc-challenge-invitation.pdf

A typical CRC node consists of three interfaces:1) USRP B2102) RTL-SDR3) WiFi moduleBoth the USRP and the RTL-SDR are so...
21/06/2016

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

19/06/2016

What are the benefits of using a wreless testbed?

Wireless testbeds offer experiments the infrastructure needed to conduct experiments. It saves the time and funding needed to purchase and setup hardware. Testbeds can provide access to a large number of nodes which is not economical for a single research group to acquire.

In addition, tools which streamline the experimentation process are usually provided in testbeds. For instance, experiment controllers enables large scale tests which can span hundreds of nodes in an easy an intuitive method. Disk imaging allows users to easily store the software changes they made to their nodes and allows them to restore it at later times.

All these reasons and more make testbeds like CRC the best option for researchers.

17/06/2016

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.

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