Hello Naima,
Welcome!
You can find information on the CorteXlab platform in its wiki:
https://www.cortexlab.fr, feel free to look into that, or even create an
account.
If you haven't already, I would advise that you go through the tutorials
on the GNU Radio wiki. Both because they are a good resource to get
started with GNU Radio in general, but also because they are, with some
of the example flowgraphs in the main repo, examples of true
communication chains involving hardware, and they might be an
interesting starting point for testing.
Best
*Cyrille MORIN *@Notou
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Le 09/03/2026 à 09:15, Naima Dimbil a écrit :
Subject: Introduction and Interest in GSoC Hardware-in-the-Loop CI Project
Hello GNU Radio community,
My name is Naima Hassan, and I am a Telecommunications Engineer
currently doing a PhD in space system engineering. My focus is on
digital communications and signal processing. My research interests
include wireless communication systems, software-defined radio (SDR),
and practical DSP implementations for RF systems.
I recently started exploring the Google Summer of Code projects
proposed by the GNU Radio community, and I am particularly interested
in the Hardware-in-the-Loop CI project. The idea of introducing
automated testing with real radio hardware is very exciting to me,
especially since real-world wireless systems often behave quite
differently from purely simulated environments.
From my background in DSP and telecommunications, I have experience
with communication system designand signal analysis. I am very
interested in contributing to the development of hardware-based
testing scenarios, defining appropriate performance metrics (such as
BER or detection accuracy), and integrating these experiments into a
CI workflow.
I would love to learn more about the expectations for this project and
how I could best prepare a strong proposal. If there are existing
resources, repositories, or prior work related to hardware testing or
the CorteXlab platform that I should study, I would greatly appreciate
any pointers.
Thank you for maintaining such an impressive open-source project. I
look forward to learning from the community and hopefully contributing
during GSoC.
Best regards,
Naima Hassan
