Motivation

At ANT, we work a lot on new algorithms and advancing the state of the art in communication engineering. Lots of work goes into theoretical considerations. Though, at the end of the day we want to improve real communication systems in practice. The best way forward to investigate the performance and constraints of new methods and algorithms , e.g. Information Bottleneck Methods or Machine Learning, is to implement them in software on General Purpose Hardware and measure their over-the-air performance in a realistic setup.

Goal

Implement an SNR estimator in GNU Radio. This estimator can then be used with SDR hardware to conduct measurements.