About DragonRadio

DragonRadio originated as Drexel’s entry into DARPA’s SC2 competition. It is a software-defined radio built from scratch—it is not based on GNURadio—and has the following notable features:

  • Runs on the Northeastern Colosseum. DragonRadio provides an easy path to getting started with the Colosseum, a large-scale wireless emulator.

  • Uses USRP hardware. DragonRadio has been tested on both the N210 and X310 platforms.

  • Pure software. All functionality is implemented in software and can run on stock USRP firmware.

  • Low-level functionality implemented in Modern C++. All low-level functionality is implemented in C++17 and makes extensive use of modern C++ features like std::shared_ptr.

  • Fast signal processing primitives. DragonRadio includes fast time- and frequency-domain filters, implemented with the help of xsimd.

  • OFDM PHY layer. Included PHY layers are based on liquid-dsp. However, the PHY interface is modular and not tied to liquid-dsp, so other PHY layers could easily be integrated.

  • FDMA, FDMA/TDMA, and ALOHA MACs. A sophisticated FDMA/TDMA MAC layer is provided that allows scheduling in both time and frequency. FDMA and ALOHA MACs are also included.

  • Embedded Python interpreter. DragonRadio embeds a Python interpreter, and all low-level functionality is exposed to Python via pybind11. The radio is configured from Python.

Please submit any issues on GitHub.

nsf This project is supported by NSF awards 1717088 and 1730140.