Course paper / final thesis, Student placement, Internship Implementation of Radio Transmitter and Receiver with USRP for Maritime Broadband Communications Student Communication Engineering, Electrical Engineering

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The German Aerospace Center DLR has a dual mandate as the national research centre for aeronautics and space, and as the space agency of the German federal government. Approximately 8000 people work for DLR on a uniquely diverse range of topics spanning the fields of aeronautics, space, energy, transport, digitalisation and security research. They collaborate on projects extending from fundamental research to the development of the innovative applications and products of the future. If the idea of joining a top-class team of researchers working in a supportive, inspirational environment appeals to you, then why not launch your mission with us?

Our Institute of Communications and Navigation in Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich wishes to recruit a

Implementation of Radio Transmitter and Receiver with USRP for Maritime Broadband Communications

Your mission:

Within the German program „Maritime Safety“, DLR is developing a new digital maritime communications system. For maritime communications the capacity is limited by the scarce availability of spectrum of only 100 kHz in the up- respectively in the downlink of the VHF band. In the future a 20 MHz band is foreseen in the C-band to overcome this limitation and enable new high data rate applications.

We have developed in our Institute a simulation tool that covers the communication chain. As a next major step, the implementation of transmitter and receiver shall be conducted to test the communication system and algorithms in reality. The goal of this internship is to develop a real time communication system based on universal software radio peripheral (USRP), using for instance the GnuRadio framework. The development will lead to a proof of concept to demonstrate the basic functionalities for the first terrestrial maritime broadband system. All communication blocks, e.g., coding, modulation, channel estimation, interpolation, decoding, shall be adapted in the implementation. 

Your qualifications:

• good knowledge of Linux, GnuRadio, and experience with USRPs is a plus
• excellent programming skill in C++, good knowledge of Matlab and Python is helpful
• good background in wireless communications, signal processing

Your benefits:

Look forward to a fulfilling job with an employer who appreciates your commitment and supports your personal and professional development. Our unique infrastructure offers you a working environment in which you have unparalled scope to develop your creative ideas and accomplish your professional objectives. Reconciling family and working life as well as equal opportunities for women and men are an integral part of our HR policy. We therefore strongly encourage applications from women. Disabled applicants with equivalent qualifications will be given preferential treatment.

If you have any questions concerning specific aspects of the job, please contact Ronald Raulefs by calling +49 8153 28-2803. Please find further information on this vacancy with the reference number 10018, and details regarding the application procedure, at www.DLR.de/dlr/jobs/#23032.