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author Hossen, Md Sharif
Dickerson, Cole
Ozdemir, Ozgur
Gurses, Anil
Sarbudeen, Mohamed Rabeek
Zajkowski, Thomas
Alam, Ahmed Manavi
Tucker, Everett
Bjorndahl, William
Solis, Fred
Javed, Sadaf
Kamath, Anirudh
Tang, Xiangyao
Sadique, Joarder Jafor
Hermstein, Kevin Liu
Mahmud, Kaies Al
Viloria, Jose Angel Sanchez
Hawkins, Skyler
Cui, Yuqing
Dey, Annoy
Liu, Yuchen
Gurbuz, Ali
Camp, Joseph
Ahmad, Rizwan
van der Merwe, Jacobus
Mohamed, Ahmed Ibrahim
Zussman, Gil
Kurum, Mehmet
Kamesh, Namuduri
Guan, Zhangyu
Pados, Dimitris
Sklivanitis, George
Guvenc, Ismail
Sichitiu, Mihail
Mushi, Magreth
Dutta, Rudra
author_facet Hossen, Md Sharif
Dickerson, Cole
Ozdemir, Ozgur
Gurses, Anil
Sarbudeen, Mohamed Rabeek
Zajkowski, Thomas
Alam, Ahmed Manavi
Tucker, Everett
Bjorndahl, William
Solis, Fred
Javed, Sadaf
Kamath, Anirudh
Tang, Xiangyao
Sadique, Joarder Jafor
Hermstein, Kevin Liu
Mahmud, Kaies Al
Viloria, Jose Angel Sanchez
Hawkins, Skyler
Cui, Yuqing
Dey, Annoy
Liu, Yuchen
Gurbuz, Ali
Camp, Joseph
Ahmad, Rizwan
van der Merwe, Jacobus
Mohamed, Ahmed Ibrahim
Zussman, Gil
Kurum, Mehmet
Kamesh, Namuduri
Guan, Zhangyu
Pados, Dimitris
Sklivanitis, George
Guvenc, Ismail
Sichitiu, Mihail
Mushi, Magreth
Dutta, Rudra
contents In this work, we present an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) wireless dataset collected as part of the AERPAW Autonomous Aerial Data Mule (AADM) challenge, organized by the NSF Aerial Experimentation and Research Platform for Advanced Wireless (AERPAW) project. The AADM challenge was the second competition in which an autonomous UAV acted as a data mule, where the UAV downloaded data from multiple base stations (BSs) in a dynamic wireless environment. Participating teams designed flight control and decision-making algorithms for choosing which BSs to communicate with and how to plan flight trajectories to maximize data download within a mission completion time. The competition was conducted in two stages: Stage 1 involved development and experimentation using a digital twin (DT) environment, and in Stage 2, the final test run was conducted on the outdoor testbed. The total score for each team was compiled from both stages. The resulting dataset includes link quality and data download measurements, both in DT and physical environments. Along with the USRP measurements used in the contest, the dataset also includes UAV telemetry, Keysight RF sensors position estimates, link quality measurements from LoRa receivers, and Fortem radar measurements. It supports reproducible research on autonomous UAV networking, multi-cell association and scheduling, air-to-ground propagation modeling, DT-to-real-world transfer learning, and integrated sensing and communication, which serves as a benchmark for future autonomous wireless experimentation.
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spellingShingle Collection: UAV-Based Wireless Multi-modal Measurements from AERPAW Autonomous Data Mule (AADM) Challenge in Digital Twin and Real-World Environments
Hossen, Md Sharif
Dickerson, Cole
Ozdemir, Ozgur
Gurses, Anil
Sarbudeen, Mohamed Rabeek
Zajkowski, Thomas
Alam, Ahmed Manavi
Tucker, Everett
Bjorndahl, William
Solis, Fred
Javed, Sadaf
Kamath, Anirudh
Tang, Xiangyao
Sadique, Joarder Jafor
Hermstein, Kevin Liu
Mahmud, Kaies Al
Viloria, Jose Angel Sanchez
Hawkins, Skyler
Cui, Yuqing
Dey, Annoy
Liu, Yuchen
Gurbuz, Ali
Camp, Joseph
Ahmad, Rizwan
van der Merwe, Jacobus
Mohamed, Ahmed Ibrahim
Zussman, Gil
Kurum, Mehmet
Kamesh, Namuduri
Guan, Zhangyu
Pados, Dimitris
Sklivanitis, George
Guvenc, Ismail
Sichitiu, Mihail
Mushi, Magreth
Dutta, Rudra
Networking and Internet Architecture
In this work, we present an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) wireless dataset collected as part of the AERPAW Autonomous Aerial Data Mule (AADM) challenge, organized by the NSF Aerial Experimentation and Research Platform for Advanced Wireless (AERPAW) project. The AADM challenge was the second competition in which an autonomous UAV acted as a data mule, where the UAV downloaded data from multiple base stations (BSs) in a dynamic wireless environment. Participating teams designed flight control and decision-making algorithms for choosing which BSs to communicate with and how to plan flight trajectories to maximize data download within a mission completion time. The competition was conducted in two stages: Stage 1 involved development and experimentation using a digital twin (DT) environment, and in Stage 2, the final test run was conducted on the outdoor testbed. The total score for each team was compiled from both stages. The resulting dataset includes link quality and data download measurements, both in DT and physical environments. Along with the USRP measurements used in the contest, the dataset also includes UAV telemetry, Keysight RF sensors position estimates, link quality measurements from LoRa receivers, and Fortem radar measurements. It supports reproducible research on autonomous UAV networking, multi-cell association and scheduling, air-to-ground propagation modeling, DT-to-real-world transfer learning, and integrated sensing and communication, which serves as a benchmark for future autonomous wireless experimentation.
title Collection: UAV-Based Wireless Multi-modal Measurements from AERPAW Autonomous Data Mule (AADM) Challenge in Digital Twin and Real-World Environments
topic Networking and Internet Architecture
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.16163