The Aerial Experimentation and Research Platform for Advanced Wireless (AERPAW) has been recently funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF)’s Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) program. The AERPAW platform will enable experiments with programmable radios and programmable unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), conducted in a safe and repeatable manner. Several architectural components are crucial for enabling the envisioned capabilities of the testbed. In this paper, after providing a high level overview of AERPAW, we first present the emulation design of AERPAW vehicles. Subsequently, we describe various different options for wireless channel emulation in AERPAW. We start with a generalized model for wireless emulation, and expand that model to packet-level emulation, I-Q level emulation, and radio-frequency (RF)-level emulation. A discussion on the trade-offs among these various different emulation possibilities is also provided.

美国国家科学基金会（NSF）的高级无线研究平台（PAWR）计划最近资助了高级无线空中试验和研究平台（AERPAW）。AERPAW平台将使以可编程无线电和可编程无人飞行器（UAV）进行的实验能够以安全且可重复的方式进行。几个体系结构组件对于实现测试平台的预期功能至关重要。在本文中，在对AERPAW车辆进行了概述之后，我们首先介绍AERPAW车辆的仿真设计。随后，我们描述了AERPAW中无线信道仿真的各种不同选项。我们从无线仿真的通用模型开始，然后将该模型扩展到数据包级别的仿真，IQ级别的仿真和射频（RF）级别的仿真。