Overview

Audience. Reviewers, contributors, and researchers who want to understand why the framework makes the choices it does, what prior work it draws on, and where it is going.

Before you start. No prerequisites. This section is standalone reading; understanding the framework’s architecture helps but is not required.

What this section is not. This section is not usage documentation. For how to run the framework, see Getting Started and How-to guides. For normative contracts, see Reference.

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The “why” behind the framework: design rationale, prior art, and forward-looking plans. Useful for reviewers and contributors; not required reading for users.

• Design Decisions: the choice table from the original spec

• Sionna stack: how NVIDIA Sionna’s modules map to the framework’s layers

• RF Fingerprinting And SEI: research context for device fingerprints

• Literature Review: prior art and gap analysis

• Labeling Survey: survey of RFML and spectrum-monitoring labeling conventions

• Roadmap: phased delivery plan

• Open Questions: unresolved tradeoffs

• Validation Strategy: sim-to-real harness, dataset audits, downstream-task evaluation