While plugging one's own work may be uncouth, if IoT and embedded topics are of interest I hope you'll consider watching my talk on the LoRa wireless protocol: https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-7945-decoding_the_lora_phy

Added, thanks!

Hopefully because you feel it's worthy, not because I pestered you!

Shameless plug: Have a look at my GNURadio OOT transceiver if you're interested in LoRa and SDR. https://github.com/BastilleResearch/gr-lora

Here is a summary of my black box/blind signal analysis that informed its design. https://github.com/matt-knight/research/tree/master/2016_08_...