Updates

Following the AERPAW Fall 2021 Event on November 9-10, and the General Availability announced during the event, AERPAW has started supporting experiment requests from external users.

AERPAW hosted a 1.5 days on-site event that included panels, training sessions, poster sessions, a tour of AERPAW facilities, and a demonstration of AERPAW drone/wireless experiments at Lake Wheeler Field Labs.

AERPAW has continued to progress with its alpha testing and beta testing, towards achieving general availability in November 2021.

NSF AERPAW Fall 2021 Event schedule includes a tour of the AERPAW experimentation areas, drone flight and software-defined radio experiment demo (weather conditions permitting), three-panel sessions that will discuss how AERPAW can be used for advanced wireless and drone experimentation, hands-on training sessions, poster sessions, and a 6GNC meeting.

The AERPAW team hosted visitors from the Mitsubishi Electric Innovation Center (MELIC). The AERPAW team had a demo of the drone and SDR experiments in the Lake Wheeler Field Labs (see the photo below), while the MELIC representatives presented their views and recent efforts related to mid-range drone delivery.

We have progressed towards testing and finalizing our experiment workflow and the virtual cloud environment.

This month we installed Ericsson 4G/5G RAN equipments at the Lake Wheeler site (LWL) and the Core equipments at the AERPAW Network Control Center (NCC) at NCSU Centennial campus, and integrated with the AERPAW fiber backplane (backhaul) between the LWL site and AERPAW NCC.