Updates

February 2024 Update

IEEE Communications Magazine Feature Topic Issue: IEEE Communications Magazine is hosting a Feature Topic on Experimentation in Large Scale Wireless Community Testbeds: Papers based on experiments carried out in PAWR platforms, including AERPAW, are explicitly highlighted in the call…

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January 2024 Update

AFAR Challenge: 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…

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December 2023 Update

November And December update In field testing for the AFAR challenge: LAM2 on the launching pad and the rover at hidden position one (don’t see the rover? It’s hidden!). Sandbox Work is in full Swing. The team is making nice,…

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October 2023 update

AERPAW has carried out its long flight experiment around its five towers in Lake Wheeler Field Labs with success. The team collected I/Q data using srsRAN LTE. First, the UAV is used as a flying LTE eNB and I/Q data…

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August 2023 Update

AERPAW team participated in NC State’s Packapalooza which was a vibrant all-day block party and street festival that caps off Wolfpack Welcome Week on Saturday, Aug. 26, 2023. In particular we flew our helikite during the event. The payload for…

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June 2023 Update

June 2023 Monthly update This past month we spent quite a bit of time setting up a GNSS RTK system with an RTK base station installed at LW1, and RTK rovers at the portable nodes. The other fixed nodes will…

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