The Radio Resilience Competition will be featured as a virtual CTF at GNU Radio Conference 2021! Join us online to test your software radio designs from anywhere in the world. This September, we will feature a unique week-long format that will feature multiple events throughout GRCon. Daily matches will provide for dynamic action on our leaderboard, and the winner will walk away with exciting prizes. Tune in throughout the week for the following events: [Read More]

While we built the open-source Simulator to host our competition, we are excited for its utility for a range of RF simulation tasks and workflows. Its microservice architecture means users can modify agents in simulated RF networks independently from one another, and its sample synchronization means the simulator will run on just about any x86 processor. Two areas that we think the Simulator could benefit are academic labs and instruction. As a virtual RF testbed, the Simulator gives users the ability to experiment with real IQ without having to incur the cost or complexity of real radios. [Read More]

Team Meteor has continued to lead the pack, with consistently strong scores over the last few weeks, with Deadbeef and David-Thee-Radio trading off second and third behind them. Since we are now focusing on a single scenario, this gives competitors a more static set of variables to optimize for. Competitors are encouraged to use this singular simulator and daily match score to improve their designs. We will reintroduce other scenarios soon, but we want to see more improvement first! [Read More]

While we endeavor to make the RRC Simulator easy to get started with, we have gotten feedback that implementing custom resamplers could be easier. This is due to IQ burst tagging that is necessary to ensure synchronous operation among the various microservices that make up the Simulator. The Simulator takes care of this by default for most scenarios, and we want to offer a solution for the rest. Therefore we have decided to implement an SDR-driver-style interface for the Simulator! [Read More]

Hello competitors! We’re trying something new – we’re going to run one scenario (Dutycycle) exclusively for the next few weeks. By playing the same scenario every day, our intent is to make it easier for competitors to measure their improvement day-to-day.

Competitors, we want to know what you think of this change. Come join us on Slack and let us know!

Tune in below to learn more about daily match automation and improved burst tagging!

The Radio Resilience organizers are pleased to announce the launch of daily matches! Every day, we’ll run a scenario featuring the latest images so that competitors can continuously improve their designs. Head on over to the Leaderboard to see the latest scores and yesterday’s replays!

Yesterday marked our Fall Season Final Event, and with it the end of our inaugural season. Congratulations to Team Meteor on their victory, and also all six of our competitors for their exciting achievements over the last several weeks. The Fall Final featured three rounds of competition. Each round pitted competitor radios against a radio scenario that was selected to exercise specific dimensions of radio performance. The “half” scenario showcased an RF environment where half of the spectrum was denied by a powerful interferer – competitors could either maneuver around the interference, or beef up their modulation/error correction parameters to power through it. [Read More]

Scrimmage #5 presented competitors with a slightly easier variant of our first competitor-sourced interference pattern, the active jammer that was featured in Scrimmage #4. Since that proved to be such a challenging hurdle, we wanted to give competitors another shot at a variant with more relaxed backoffs and a weaker interference pattern. Congratulations to team David-Thee-Radio, whose slow and steady approach enabled them to edge out the competition by scoring points deep into the match! [Read More]