PAWR Platform AERPAW: Aerial Experimentation and Research Platform for Advanced Wireless

PAWR 平台 AERPAW：先进无线航空实验和研究平台

• 批准号: 1939334
• 负责人: Tommaso Melodia
• 金额: $ 909.44万
• 依托单位: Northeastern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-09-01 至 2025-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1939334&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: PAWR; Platform; AERPAW; Aerial; Experimentation

This project will create a city-scale platform for advanced wireless research to be deployed over the period 2019 - 2024 in Raleigh, North Carolina. The platform, called AERPAW: Aerial Experimentation and Research Platform for Advanced Wireless, will focus on new use cases for advanced wireless technologies that are emerging in the unmanned aerial systems (UAS) space. While most UAS operations presently require visual line-of-sight (VLOS) between a pilot and the drone, cellular networks and advanced wireless technologies will enable beyond-VLOS and autonomous UAS operations, unleashing three-dimensional mobility for UAS. In this project, a world-leading team of researchers will create a national center of excellence to provide fundamental knowledge and a vital national testbed focused on this area. AERPAW will be a one-of-its-kind aerial wireless experimentation platform and a proving ground and technological enabler for emerging innovations, including package delivery platforms and urban air mobility. It will accelerate development, verification, and testing of transformative advances and breakthroughs in telecommunications, transportation, infrastructure monitoring, agriculture, and public safety, among others. AERPAW will bring new business use cases enabled by UAS and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies and will become a long-term national asset for decades to come. The data collected from AERPAW will be an invaluable resource for educators, and graduate/undergraduate students across the nation. Summer workshops, short-term and long-term student design challenges, as well as remote laboratories will spearhead new approaches to engage and educate students at all levels as well as the local and national communities. The project team is led by researchers at North Carolina State University (NCSU) along with researchers participating from Mississippi State University and Wireless Research Center of North Carolina. With oversight from the Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) Project Office, this team will design, deploy, operate, and sustain AERPAW. AERPAW will have two major goals: 1) to accelerate the integration of UAS into the national air-space; and 2) to enable new advanced wireless features for UAS platforms, including flying base stations for hot spot wireless connectivity. The team will design, deploy, and operate a revolutionary UAS experimentation platform to support advanced research on 5G wireless systems and beyond, in addition to supporting experiments on mobility-as-a-service. AERPAW will provide accessible ground and aerial wireless nodes for users, the possibility for users to bring their own nodes or network components, automated experiment specification/execution, as well as data provisioning/management. Information on the access to this PAWR platform is available on https://www.advancedwireless.orgThis award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目将为先进无线研究创建一个城市规模的平台，并将于 2019 年至 2024 年期间在北卡罗来纳州罗利部署。该平台名为 AERPAW：先进无线航空实验和研究平台，将重点关注无人机系统 (UAS) 领域新兴的先进无线技术的新用例。虽然目前大多数无人机操作需要飞行员和无人机之间的视觉视线 (VLOS)，但蜂窝网络和先进的无线技术将实现超越 VLOS 和自主无人机操作，从而释放无人机的三维移动性。在该项目中，世界领先的研究团队将创建一个国家卓越中心，以提供基础知识和专注于该领域的重要国家测试平台。 AERPAW 将成为独一无二的空中无线实验平台，以及包裹递送平台和城市空中交通等新兴创新的试验场和技术推动者。它将加速电信、交通、基础设施监控、农业和公共安全等领域变革性进步和突破的开发、验证和测试。 AERPAW 将带来由 UAS 和物联网 (IoT) 技术支持的新业务用例，并将成为未来几十年的长期国家资产。从 AERPAW 收集的数据将成为全国教育工作者和研究生/本科生的宝贵资源。夏季研讨会、短期和长期学生设计挑战以及远程实验室将引领新方法来吸引和教育各级学生以及当地和国家社区。该项目团队由北卡罗莱纳州立大学 (NCSU) 的研究人员领导，以及密西西比州立大学和北卡罗莱纳州无线研究中心的研究人员参与。在高级无线研究平台 (PAWR) 项目办公室的监督下，该团队将设计、部署、操作和维护 AERPAW。 AERPAW 将有两个主要目标：1）加速 UAS 融入国家空域； 2) 为无人机平台提供新的先进无线功能，包括用于热点无线连接的飞行基站。该团队将设计、部署和运营一个革命性的 UAS 实验平台，以支持 5G 无线系统及其他系统的高级研究，此外还支持移动即服务的实验。 AERPAW 将为用户提供可访问的地面和空中无线节点、用户携带自己的节点或网络组件的可能性、自动化实验规范/执行以及数据供应/管理。有关访问此 PAWR 平台的信息，请访问 https://www.advancedwireless.org 该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Open-Source Software Radio Performance for Cellular Communications Research with UAV Users

• DOI: 10.1109/vtc2021-fall52928.2021.9625086
• 发表时间: 2021-09
• 期刊: 2021 IEEE 94th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2021-Fall)
• 作者: A. S. Abdalla;Andrew L. Yingst;Keith Powell;V. Marojevic

SDR-Based 5G NR C-Band I/Q Monitoring and Surveillance in Urban Area Using a Helikite

使用 Helikite 在城市地区进行基于 SDR 的 5G NR C 频段 I/Q 监测和监视

• DOI: 10.1109/icit58465.2023.10143158
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT
• 作者: Maeng, Sung Joon;Ozdemir, Ozgur;Güvenç, İsmail;Sichitiu, Mihail L.;Mushi, Magreth;Dutta, Rudra;Ghosh, Monisha
• 通讯作者: Ghosh, Monisha

Performance Evaluation of Aerial Relaying Systems for Improving Secrecy in Cellular Networks

• DOI: 10.1109/vtc2020-fall49728.2020.9348686
• 发表时间: 2020-11
• 期刊: 2020 IEEE 92nd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2020-Fall)
• 作者: A. S. Abdalla;Bodong Shang;V. Marojevic;Lingjia Liu

Tethered UAV with High Gain Antenna for BVLOS CNPC: A Practical Design for Widespread Use

• DOI: 10.1109/wowmom51794.2021.00059
• 发表时间: 2021-01-01
• 期刊: 2021 IEEE 22ND INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON A WORLD OF WIRELESS, MOBILE AND MULTIMEDIA NETWORKS (WOWMOM 2021)
• 作者: Yingst, Andrew L.;Marojevic, Vuk
• 通讯作者: Marojevic, Vuk

Spectrum Activity Monitoring and Analysis for Sub-6 GHz Bands Using a Helikite

使用 Helikite 对 6 GHz 以下频段进行频谱活动监测和分析

• DOI: 10.1109/comsnets56262.2023.10041314
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: IEEE Testbeds for Advanced Systems Implementation and Research (TASIR
• 作者: Maeng, S. J.;Ozdemir, O.;Nandakumar, H. N.;Guvenc, I.;Sichitiu, M. L.;Dutta, R.;Mushi, M.
• 通讯作者: Mushi, M.