A 4G LTE base station running entirely in software on a standard PC

Would be fun to know how such base-stations - when attached to antenna - can be used to spoof things and perform attacks. Lets hope that comes up at some blackhat conference soon...

Re: A 4G LTE base station running entirely in software on a standard PC

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Post by mtdev » Mon, Sep 03, 2012, 8:24 AM UTC

Neat, however, software for base station are not provided and interested companies can contact the site owner. Pretty cool that this is allegedly running on a software defined radio kit which can be had for only ~$2000 (a bargain).

Re: A 4G LTE base station running entirely in software on a standard PC

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Post by bochi » Mon, Sep 03, 2012, 8:33 AM UTC

3amOpsGuy wrote: post #2

Wow, it's from Fabrice Bellard of QEMU and ffmpeg fame, excellent.

Fabrice Bellard a genius: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Bellard

Re: A 4G LTE base station running entirely in software on a standard PC

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Post by heretohelp » Mon, Sep 03, 2012, 8:49 AM UTC

sandGorgon wrote: post #3

I wonder why this was not developed/contributed to the GNU Radio toolkit ( http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki ) .

Because it's Fabrice Bellard.

Look at his ouerve, he doesn't bother integrating any of his projects into anything else, or put more charitably, dance to the politics of other peoples' projects.

I don't blame him. Contributing to GNU projects as an outsider is a PITA.

Re: A 4G LTE base station running entirely in software on a standard PC

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Post by zvikara » Mon, Sep 03, 2012, 8:57 AM UTC

willvarfar wrote: post #4

Very neat. Shame that 'interested companies can contact me'. Would be fun to know how such base-stations - when attached to antenna - can be used to spoof things and perform attacks. Lets hope that comes up at some blackhat conference soon...

Fabrice has contributed to opensource more than almost anybody here. Absolutely no shame if he prefer to keep the source closed this time.

Re: A 4G LTE base station running entirely in software on a standard PC

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Post by nathell » Mon, Sep 03, 2012, 9:09 AM UTC

Fabrice Bellard is one of the guys I dream of one day achieving the level of productivity of.

Re: A 4G LTE base station running entirely in software on a standard PC

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Post by bostonvaulter2 » Mon, Sep 03, 2012, 9:27 AM UTC

mtdev wrote: post #5

Neat, however, software for base station are not provided and interested companies can contact the site owner. Pretty cool that this is allegedly running on a software defined radio kit which can be had for only ~$2000 (a bargain).

Is there a reason that this Low-Cost software defined radio wouldn't work ($30)?

http://www.amazon.com/Newsky-Receiver-Low-Cost-Software-Defi...