Re: GSOC proposal

[Andrej Rode]

Hi Kayla, 

thanks for sharing your current proposal on the forward error correction 
project idea from our GSoC ideas page. 
Overall it looks well written and it contains all required elements.
We have collected some feedback for you: 

 - In the proposal you mention that many of the current FEC blocks in GNU Radio 
are implemented in Python. This is actually not correct, as most FEC is 
implemented in C++ and made available in Python through a wrapper. This is a 
common technique employed throughout GNU Radio and also for new blocks it is a 
requirement to have a Python wrapper (which is easy to implement since GNU 
Radio comes with a framework for that). 

 - It would be very useful to develop a testbench (e.g. with a corresponding 
flowgraph) to compare the performance in terms of throughput, but also error 
correction capability, of existing blocks in GNU Radio with newly 
developed/integrated blocks e.g. using Aff3ct (which duplicate exisiting blocks 
like LDPC or viterbi decoders). 

Cheers,
Andrej

> On 23. Mar 2024, at 10:07, Kayla Comer <kmcomer2002@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello, I have attached a draft of my proposal for the forward error 
> correction project. Please let me know what could improve for the final 
> submission
> 
> Best,
> Kayla Comer
> <kmcomer_gnuradio_gsoc_proposal.pdf>