Kevin Hermstein and Alon Levin recieved the Best Poster Award at NEWSDR 2026

Kevin Hermstein and Alon S. Levin won the Best Poster Award at the 2026 New England Workshop on Software-Defined Radio (NEWSDR). This conference brings together software-defined radio (SDR) enthusiasts from academia and industry to further the capabilities and understanding of SDR. Conference participants voted on their favorite poster of the 15 presented. This was the 16th installment of the conference and was hosted at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts.

The winning poster, entitled “Open-Source Full-Duplex with Software-Defined Radios”, summarizes work to make Full-Duplex (FD) radios, which are capable of simultaneous transmission and reception on the same frequency, fully open-source. This includes publishing hardware specifications as well as the accompanying code necessary to build and run a FD radio with commercial off-the-shelf SDRs. Additionally, tutorials on FD radios and datasets collected with FD radios are available through the NSF COSMOS testbed. This work is performed within the FlexICoN project, a collaboration between the groups of Professors Gil Zussman and Harish Krishnaswamy to develop FD radios through dedicated integrated circuits and experimentally validate network performance and applications. Alongside the poster, a FD radio was demonstrated live.