The qualifying teams for Smart Radio Challenge ’08 announced at the conference will also take on one of three defined problems:

Penn State and Virginia Tech CWT will each demonstrate a cognitive radio system (hardware and software) operating in the 2.4 GHz ISM band with individual remote radios capable of knowing when they have been disconnected from the existing infrastructure, which then automatically form a network to forward traffic. Carnegie Mellon and the University of Utah will each develop a secondary-user cognitive transceiver system that can detect primary-user signals operating in the 2.4 GHz ISM band and, while operating within that band, determine the occupied spectrum, transmission times and geographical locations to sufficient resolution to avoid interference with legacy systems. While Penn State and the University of Calgary (Canada), given a specification for an air interface standard supported by a Forum radio transmitting a message, will have to decode this message and transmit a suitable response, with the winner being the first team to do so.

The qualifying teams will now have 10 months to complete and submit their projects, and the winners will be announced at the Forum’s 2008 technical conference in Washington, D.C.

Sponsors of the smart radio challenge include Altera, Lyrtech, The MathWorks, Objective Interface, PrismTech, Synplicity, Texas Instruments, Xilinx, and Zeligsoft.

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