%0 Journal Article %J Open Source Business Resource %D 2010 %T Experiences From the OSSIE Open Source Software Defined Radio Project %A Carl B. Dietrich %A Jeffrey H. Reed %A Stephen H. Edwards %A Frank E. Kragh %X This article briefly describes OSSIE, a university-based open source Software Defined Radio project based on the U.S. Department of Defense's Software Communications Architecture. The OSSIE software has proven useful for rapid prototyping by industry as well as for published research and education of hundreds of graduate and undergraduate students and short course participants. In addition to examples of OSSIE's successes, the project's challenges and approaches to mitigating and overcoming them are described. %B Open Source Business Resource %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %8 03/2010 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/334 %N March 2010 %9 Articles %1 Virginia Tech Carl B. Dietrich is a Research Assistant Professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech, where he completed Ph.D. and M.S. degrees after graduating from Texas A and M University. He worked with the Defense Information Systems Agency, Arlington, Virginia and Bell Northern Research, Richardson, Texas and conducted research on adaptive and diversity antenna systems and radio wave propagation. His current work in software defined radio (SDR) includes leading projects related to the OSSIE open source effort. He chairs the Wireless Innovation Forum Educational Work Group, is a member of IEEE, ASEE, and Eta Kappa Nu, and is a Professional Engineer in Virginia. %2 Virginia Tech Jeffrey H. Reed is the Willis G. Worcester Professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and director of Wireless @ Virginia Tech. His area of expertise is in software radios, cognitive radios, wireless networks, and communications signal processing. He is an IEEE Fellow and the author of Software Radio: A Modern Approach to Radio Design (Prentice Hall, 2002) and An Introduction to Ultra Wideband Communication Systems (Prentice Hall, 2005). %3 Virginia Tech Stephen H. Edwards, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Virginia Tech, has interests in component-based software, automated software testing, and educational uses of computers. As the PI on an NSF phase II CCLI project, he developed Web-CAT, the most widely used open-source automated grading tool for computer programming assignments, with nearly 10,000 users at over 30 institutions worldwide. He is also a member of his department's undergraduate program committee, and chair of the subcommittee on curriculum and courses. Dr. Edwards has a background in component-based systems and has collaborated on software-defined radio research since 2007. %4 Naval Postgraduate School Frank E. Kragh is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Dr. Kragh received his B.S. from Caltech in 1986, his M.S. from the University of Central Florida in 1990, and his Ph.D. from the Naval Postgraduate School in 1997. His chief research and teaching interests are digital communications, software defined radio, multiple-input multiple-out systems, and military communications systems.