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This section of the user manual includes overview information about AERPAW. In particular, deployment areas, timeline, high-level platform architecture, equipment currently supported, and equipment to be supported in the future phases are presented. Moreover, FCC and FAA regulations for operating AERPAW are summarized, including what spectrum bands are presently supported for AERPAW experiments. Additional overview information can be found at https://aerpaw.org/.
AERPAW is a batch-mode facility. Experimenters develop experiments in a virtual environment, and submit experiments for execution on the physical testbed once development is complete. AERPAW Operations personnel (Ops) then execute these submitted experiments in the physical testbed environment, and collect the output of the experiments as designed by the Experimenters, which are available for Experimenters to view and analyze back in the virtual environment.
This is not an arbitrarily decided constraint, but a considered architectural choice. In operating a facility with programmable radios and programmable air vehicles, we are obligated to make, and uphold, certain guarantees to the FCC and FAA. However, we also want to allow Experimenters the ability to program those radios and air vehicles, ideally without needing to become fully conversant with FCC and FAA regulation details, obtaining exemptions, or expertise at techniques for ensuring compliance.
Batch mode operation allows us to interpose critical filters and monitors into the Experiment code execution flow that allow us to guarantee safe and compliant operation. It is one of the most valuable features of the AERPAW platform that we assume this guarantee ourselves, rather than passing on the responsibility for compliant operations (and liability for non-compliance) to you, the Experimenter.
Video of talk explaining AERPAW's overall usage architecture
aerpaw-usage-model-feb22.mp4
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