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ARA PAWR: Wireless Living Lab for Smart and Connected Rural Communities

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As the Platform for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) in rural broadband, the ARA wireless living lab features the deployment of first-of-its-kind wireless access and backhaul platforms in real-world agriculture and rural settings, and preliminary experiments have demonstrated very promising results, e.g., up to 3.2 Gbps wireless access throughput and more than 10 Gbps throughput across a wireless backhaul link of over 10 km. ARA is expected to be publicly released for broad community use starting in September 2023. Through this demo, we plan to share, for the first time, with the wireless research community the transformative research experiments enabled by ARA. To stimulate discussion and community participation, we will demonstrate a few example experiments ranging from MU-MIMO in TV White Space (TVWS) bands to long-range mmWave and microwave backhaul communications, as well as open-source 5G NR protocol stacks such as srsRAN and OpenAirInterface.

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Hongwei Zhang and Yong Guan and Ahmed Kamal and Daji Qiao and Mai Zheng and Anish Arora and Ozdal Boyraz et al. 2021. ARA: A Wireless Living Lab Vision for Smart and Connected Rural Communities. In ACM WiNTECH.
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Kate Keahey, Jason Anderson, Michael Sherman, Cody Hammock, Zhuo Zhen, Jenett Tillotson, Timothy Bargo, Lance Long, Taimoor Ul Islam, Sarath Babu, Hongwei Zhang, and Francois Halbach. 2022. CHI-in-a-Box: Reducing Operational Costs of Research Testbeds. In ACM PEARC.

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                  ACM MobiCom '23: Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking
                  October 2023
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                  ISBN:9781450399906
                  DOI:10.1145/3570361
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                  1. ARA
                  2. rural wireless
                  3. 5G and beyond
                  4. precision agriculture

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                  • (2025)Assessing Nationwide Distributed Open RAN Deployments with the OpenRAN@Brasil TestbedIEEE Communications Magazine10.1109/MCOM.001.240031763:2(46-52)Online publication date: Feb-2025
                  • (2024)COSMIC DAWN: Distributed Analysis of Wireless at NextscaleMILCOM 2024 - 2024 IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM)10.1109/MILCOM61039.2024.10773643(1-6)Online publication date: 28-Oct-2024
                  • (2024)Exploring the Boundaries of Connected Systems: Communications for Hard-to-Reach Areas and Extreme ConditionsProceedings of the IEEE10.1109/JPROC.2024.3402265112:7(912-945)Online publication date: Jul-2024

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