The binding policy documents live in the Policies section:
The sections below summarize how they are applied in practice.
Almost all research and educational use is appropriate and encouraged — by universities, industrial research labs, and both US and non-US institutions.
Users are organised into groups (organisations), and account authorisation is handled by the group's principal investigator (PI) — typically a faculty member or senior/permanent staff member, who is accountable for the group members' conduct on the testbed. To create a new group, a PI fills in the group registration form; once approved (typically within a couple of business days) new users can select that group on the user registration form. The PI approves new member accounts and may delegate that role to another group member through the portal.
Use for product development and evaluation by companies is also acceptable with some provisions — email support@orbit-lab.org if you are interested or have questions about this policy.
During an experiment, please be available for contact with the email / phone you registered with. In case of abuse or misconfiguration, you will be contacted, if possible, to remedy the situation.
If the situation is not resolved, your experiment will be forcibly shut down, and the PI for your group contacted.
All cases of deliberate abuse will be reported and could result in access rights suspension.
The compute resources are meant to be used in support of testbed level experiments. In cases of contention, standalone compute jobs will be given a lower priority than real-time usage for RF processing. Cryptocurrency mining is expressly forbidden.
Since the testbed can radiate in a wide range of RF frequencies, and uses a considerable amount of power and other resources, we require that it be used for legitimate research purposes.
Efforts have been made to prevent accidental misuse or interference with other users or the public, however deliberate abusive or malicious actions will result in a ban from access.
Accidents, mistakes, misconfigurations and the like happen. Some actions, such as transmitting on a forbidden frequency, or accidental network denial of service, will result in a warning to you, and your group administrator.
Specific resources / sites may have additional restrictions. For example, resources in the Columbia, NYU or Rutgers datacenters are subject to their Acceptable Use Policies as well.