Demo: Ara Pawr Wireless Living Lab for Smart and Connected Rural Communities
ARA is an at-scale Platform for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR), specifically tailored to the unique community, application, and economic context of rural regions. It features the first-of-its-kind real-world implementation of long-distance, high-capacity wireless backhaul and access systems spanning over 30 km in diameter. Leveraging both software-defined radios and programmable Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) systems, ARA orchestrates the wireless resources alongside the networking and compute resources for enabling end-to-end experiments involving user equipment, base stations, edge computing, and cloud infrastructure. Such an integration facilitates the coevolution of rural-focused wireless innovation and applications, while helping to advance the frontiers of advanced Next-G wireless systems such as Open RAN. As of summer 2024, ARA is publicly accessible with 7 base stations (BSes) and over 30 user equipment (UEs). In this demo, we share advanced wireless research experiments enabled by ARA, involving MU-MIMO in TV White Space (TVWS) bands, long-range mmWave and microwave backhaul communications, and open-source 5G NR protocol stacks such as srsRAN and OpenAirInterface (OAI).
Authors
- Sanjeeva Reddy
- Evan Gossling (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-2111-5215)
- Mohamed K. Selim (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2614-1883)
- Victor Lee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4032-6481)
- Ozdal Boyraz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4005-1107)
- Guo Zu
- M. B. Cohen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7920-5759)
- Joshua Ofori Boateng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4248-1642)
- Mohamed S. Soliman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1892-4917)
- Zhaozong Meng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8159-7173)
- Elisabeth Permatasari (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-8157-2980)
- Sarath Babu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9219-2588)
- Daji Qiao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3662-6481)
- Arsalan Ahmad (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5467-7901)
- Ataberk Atalar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8506-4131)
- A. Hussain (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8303-8255)
- Md Nadim (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-6453-2403)
- Xiaolong Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7493-2650)
- Tao Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9561-3242)
- Hongwei Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7718-021X)
- Wei Xu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3818-8657)
- Yong Liang Guan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9757-630X)
- M. Shahid (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2545-1778)
- Amit Arora (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4766-1477)
- Meng Zheng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1674-8577)
- Taimoor UI Islam
Institutions
- Iowa State University (US)
- University of California, Irvine (US)
- The Ohio State University (US)
Publication Details
- Published
- 2024-10-28
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1109/icnp61940.2024.10858584
- Primary Topic
- Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00