ARA-O-RAN: End-to-End Programmable O-RAN Living Lab for Agriculture and Rural Communities
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| author | Zhang, Tianyi Boateng, Joshua Ofori Islam, Taimoor UI Ahmad, Arsalan Zhang, Hongwei Qiao, Daji |
| author_facet | Zhang, Tianyi Boateng, Joshua Ofori Islam, Taimoor UI Ahmad, Arsalan Zhang, Hongwei Qiao, Daji |
| contents | As wireless networks evolve towards open architectures like O-RAN, testing, and integration platforms are crucial to address challenges like interoperability. This paper describes ARA-O-RAN, a novel O-RAN testbed established through the NSF Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) ARA platform. ARA provides an at-scale rural wireless living lab focused on technologies for digital agriculture and rural communities. As an O-RAN Alliance certified Open Testing and Integration Centre (OTIC), ARA launched ARA-O-RAN -- the first public O-RAN testbed tailored to rural and agriculture use cases, together with the end-to-end, whole-stack programmability. ARA-O-RAN uniquely combines support for outdoor testing across a university campus, surrounding farmlands, and rural communities with a 50-node indoor sandbox. The testbed facilitates vital R\&D to implement open architectures that can meet rural connectivity needs. The paper outlines ARA-O-RAN's hardware system design, software architecture, and enabled research experiments. It also discusses plans aligned with national spectrum policy and rural spectrum innovation. ARA-O-RAN exemplifies the value of purpose-built wireless testbeds in accelerating impactful wireless research. |
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| spellingShingle | ARA-O-RAN: End-to-End Programmable O-RAN Living Lab for Agriculture and Rural Communities Zhang, Tianyi Boateng, Joshua Ofori Islam, Taimoor UI Ahmad, Arsalan Zhang, Hongwei Qiao, Daji Networking and Internet Architecture As wireless networks evolve towards open architectures like O-RAN, testing, and integration platforms are crucial to address challenges like interoperability. This paper describes ARA-O-RAN, a novel O-RAN testbed established through the NSF Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) ARA platform. ARA provides an at-scale rural wireless living lab focused on technologies for digital agriculture and rural communities. As an O-RAN Alliance certified Open Testing and Integration Centre (OTIC), ARA launched ARA-O-RAN -- the first public O-RAN testbed tailored to rural and agriculture use cases, together with the end-to-end, whole-stack programmability. ARA-O-RAN uniquely combines support for outdoor testing across a university campus, surrounding farmlands, and rural communities with a 50-node indoor sandbox. The testbed facilitates vital R\&D to implement open architectures that can meet rural connectivity needs. The paper outlines ARA-O-RAN's hardware system design, software architecture, and enabled research experiments. It also discusses plans aligned with national spectrum policy and rural spectrum innovation. ARA-O-RAN exemplifies the value of purpose-built wireless testbeds in accelerating impactful wireless research. |
| title | ARA-O-RAN: End-to-End Programmable O-RAN Living Lab for Agriculture and Rural Communities |
| topic | Networking and Internet Architecture |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.10982 |