Design and Implementation of ARA Wireless Living Lab for Rural Broadband and Applications
<|reference_start|>Design and Implementation of ARA Wireless Living Lab for Rural Broadband and Applications: To address the rural broadband challenge and to leverage the unique opportunities that rural regions provide for piloting advanced wireless applications, we design and implement the ARA wireless living lab for research and innovation in rural wireless systems and their applications in precision agriculture, community services, and so on. ARA focuses on the unique community, application, and economic context of rural regions, and it features the first-of-its-kind, real-world deployment of long-distance, high-capacity wireless x-haul and access platforms across a rural area of diameter over 30 km. With both software-defined radios and programmable COTS systems and through effective orchestration of these wireless resources with fiber as well as compute resources embedded end-to-end across user equipment, base stations, edge, and cloud, ARA offers programmability, performance, robustness, and heterogeneity at the same time, thus enabling rural-focused co-evolution of wireless and applications while helping advance the frontiers of wireless systems in domains such as O-RAN, NextG, and agriculture applications. Here we present the design principles and implementation strategies of ARA, characterize its performance and heterogeneity, and highlight example wireless and application experiments uniquely enabled by ARA.<|reference_end|>
@article{islam2024design,
    title={Design and Implementation of ARA Wireless Living Lab for Rural Broadband
  and Applications},
    author={Taimoor Ul Islam, Joshua Ofori Boateng, Md Nadim, Guoying Zu, Mukaram
  Shahid, Xun Li, Tianyi Zhang, Salil Reddy, Wei Xu, Ataberk Atalar, Vincent
  Lee, Yung-Fu Chen, Evan Gosling, Elisabeth Permatasari, Christ Somiah, Zhibo
  Meng, Sarath Babu, Mohammed Soliman, Ali Hussain, Daji Qiao, Mai Zheng, Ozdal
  Boyraz, Yong Guan, Anish Arora, Mohamed Selim, Arsalan Ahmad, Myra B. Cohen,
  Mike Luby, Ranveer Chandra, James Gross, Hongwei Zhang},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.00913},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2408.00913},
    primaryClass={cs.NI cs.ET}
}