Hi everyone, I'm Mujtaba Ahmed, a final-year Electrical Engineering student specializing in Embedded Systems. I am planning to apply for GSoC 2026 and am highly interested in contributing to the *5G Cell Scanner* project.
I'm actively working in this exact domain right now. I am currently building a distributed system to detect and localize radio transmitters using TDOA algorithms, working directly with HackRF One and ADALM-PLUTO SDRs. Because I spend my time in Ubuntu bridging physical radio hardware with software-level signal processing, I am very comfortable with the exact challenges of passively detecting and capturing RF signals, and I want to bring that hands-on experience to GNU Radio. I am setting up my development environment this weekend to compile GNU Radio from source. Are there any specific "good first issues," existing flowgraphs, or 5G protocol parsers the mentors recommend I tackle to demonstrate my skills before the formal application period opens? Looking forward to learning from you all!
