Outreach

Learn about the PAWR platforms through published papers and events.

Featured:

Open, Programmable, and Virtualized 5G Networks: State-of-the-Art and the Road Ahead
Bonati, M. Polese, S. D’Oro, S. Basagni, and T. Melodia, “Open, Programmable, and Virtualized 5G Networks: State-of-the-Art and the Road Ahead,” Computer Networks, vol. 182, August 2020.  [pdf] [bibtex]

This article provides the first cohesive and exhaustive compendium of recent open source software and frameworks for 5G cellular networks, with a full stack and end-to-end perspective. We detail their capabilities and functionalities focusing on how their constituting elements fit the 5G ecosystem, and unravel the interactions among the surveyed solutions.

Past Events:

The PAWR Project Office hosted a webinar for proposers to the Spectrum Innovation Initiative on February 9, 2021. The webinar covered opportunities for spectrum research on the PAWR platform. A video recording is available.

The PAWR program is helping to organize the OpenAirInterface 2020 Fall Virtual Workshop on November 12th, 2020 from 10:00AM-02:00PM Eastern Time. The main purpose of the event is to inform the community of the status of the 5G RAN and CORE NETWORK stacks that have been recently released, as well as to announce the timetable and roadmap of the future 5G developments.

The second COSMOS Research Community Workshop is now scheduled for October 14, 11:00 a.m. to 6:15 p.m. Eastern Time. The workshop is intended to enable an exchange of research ideas and experiment methods among users and developers of the COSMOS testbed. Details available on the COSMOS website.

On September 25, PIs from POWDER, COSMOS, and AERPAW gave presentations on their PAWR platforms at the The 14th ACM Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation & CHaracterization (WiNTECH ’20). For more details, visit the conference website.

Papers included:

• M. L. Sichitiu, I. Guvenc, R. Dutta, V. Marojevic, B. Floyd, “AERPAW Emulation Overview”, in Proc. of ACM Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation & CHaracterization (WiNTECH), London, United Kingdom, September 2020.

• M. Kohli, T. Chen, M. Baraani Dastjerdi, J. Welles, I. Seskar, H. Krishnaswamy, G. Zussman, “Open-Access Full-Duplex Wireless in the ORBIT and COSMOS Testbeds”, in Proc. of ACM Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation & CHaracterization (WiNTECH), London, United Kingdom, September 2020.

• J. Breen, A. Buffmire, J. Duerig, K. Dutt, E. Eide, M. Hibler, D. Johnson, S. Kumar Kasera, E. Lewis, D. Maas, A. Orange, N. Patwari, D. Reading, R. Ricci, D. Schurig, L. B. Stoller, J. Van der Merwe, K. Webb, G. Wong, “POWDER: Platform for Open Wireless Data-driven Experimental Research”, in Proc. of ACM Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation & CHaracterization (WiNTECH), London, United Kingdom, September 2020.

• B. C. Terry, A. Orange, N. Patwari, S. Kasera, J. Van der Merwe, “Spectrum Monitoring and Source Separation in POWDER”, in Proc. of ACM Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation & CHaracterization (WiNTECH), London, United Kingdom, September 2020.

• R. Doost-Mohammady, O. Bejarano, A. Sabharwal, “Good Times For Wireless Research
  “, in Proc. of ACM Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation & CHaracterization (WiNTECH), London, United Kingdom, September 2020.

On September 14, 2020, several leaders in the PAWR program participated in the FCC Forum on 5G Open Radio Access Networks. In a technical session moderated by FCC CTO Monisha Ghosh, panelists included PAWR Technical Director Manu Gosain, as well as POWDER PI Kobus Van der Merwe, and COSMOS PI Ivan Seskar.

A replay of the event is available on the FCC website.

On May 27, 2020, the Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) program announced a new $2.7M project funded by the U.S. Department of Defense to test AI-driven spectrum sharing optimization in a 5G-NR network. Dr. Thyaga Nandagopal, Deputy Division Director (DDD) for the Division of Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF) at the National Science Foundation, spoke with US Ignite’s Mari Silbey at the 5GX Connect Summit on the project’s aims and the capability of PAWR testbed sites to enable new research into advanced communications network technologies. Watch the video.