AERPAW Find-a-Rover (AFAR) Challenge was completed successfully in December 2023. Based on the field testing of submissions from the finalists, the teams ranked in the top three slots are as follows: Eagles (University of North Texas), Team SunLab (University of Georgia), and NYU Wireless (NYU). Further details and photos from the competition can be found at: https://aerpaw.org/aerpaw-afar-challenge/
The latest results from AERPAW were presented at various venues, including IEEE FNWF Workshop on Nov. 14, NRDZCOM3 Workshop on Nov. 17, KAUST 6G Summit on Nov. 28, National Spectrum Consortium 6G Working Group Meeting on Dec. 6, and Raleigh Amateur Radio Society (RARS) Monthly Meeting on Jan. 9th.
NC State team, together with PPO and NSF, met with seven NSF PAWR supplement awardees to discuss their plans to use AERPAW for their research. The seven projects, their corresponding PIs, and their institutions are as follows:
Shih-Chun Lin, NC State U, Collaborative Research: NeTS: JUNO3: End-to-end network slicing and orchestration in future programmable converged wireless-optical networks
Haijian Sun, U of Georgia, CRII: CNS: Towards Spectrum and Energy Efficient Large-scale IoT Communications: A Cross-layer Optimization Approach
Lingjia Liu, Virginia Tech, Collaborative Research: SWIFT: Intelligent Dynamic Spectrum Access (IDEA): An Efficient Learning Approach to Enhancing Spectrum Utilization and Coexistence
Zhangyu Guan, SUNY Buffalo, Collaborative Research: SWIFT: Decentralized Intelligent Spectrum Sharing in UAV Networks (DISH-uNET) via Hardware-software Co-design
Dimitris Pados, Georgios Sklivanitis, Florida Atlantic Univ, Collaborative Research: SWIFT: SMALL: Autonomously Reconfigurable Hardware-Reduced Wideband Transceivers for Efficient Passive-Active Spectrum Coexistence
Mingyue Ji, University of Utah, Collaborative Research: SWIFT: Decentralized Intelligent Spectrum Sharing in UAV Networks (DISH-uNET) via Hardware-software Co-design
Andreas Molisch, U. Southern California, SpecEES: Collaborative Research: DroTerNet: Coexistence between Drone and Terrestrial Wireless Networks
