5 papers
Design and Implementation of ARA Wireless Living Lab for Rural Broadband and Applications
Taimoor Ul Islam, Joshua Ofori Boateng, Md Nadim +31
Addressing the broadband gap between rural and urban regions requires rural-focused wireless research and innovation. In the meantime, rural regions provide rich, diverse use cases…
AraRACH: Enhancing NextG Random Access Reliability in Programmable Wireless Living Labs
Joshua Ofori Boateng, Tianyi Zhang, Guoying Zu +6
The rapid evolution of wireless technologies has intensified interest in open and fully programmable radio access networks for whole-stack research, innovation, and evaluation of e…
AraSync: Precision Time Synchronization in Rural Wireless Living Lab
Md Nadim, Taimoor Ul Islam, Salil Reddy +8
Time synchronization is a critical component in network operation and management, and it is also required by Ultra-Reliable, Low-Latency Communications (URLLC) in next-generation w…
ARA-O-RAN: End-to-End Programmable O-RAN Living Lab for Agriculture and Rural Communities
Tianyi Zhang, Joshua Ofori Boateng, Taimoor UI Islam +3
As wireless networks evolve towards open architectures like O-RAN, testing, and integration platforms are crucial to address challenges like interoperability. This paper describes…
Exploring Wireless Channels in Rural Areas: A Comprehensive Measurement Study
Tianyi Zhang, Guoying Zu, Taimoor Ul Islam +4
The study of wireless channel behavior has been an active research topic for many years. However, there exists a noticeable scarcity of studies focusing on wireless channel charact…