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

PAWR 平台 ARA：智能互联农村社区的无线生活实验室

• 批准号: 2130889
• 负责人: Tommaso Melodia
• 金额: $ 707.38万
• 依托单位: Northeastern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-06-15 至 2026-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2130889&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: PAWR; Platform; ARA; Wireless; Living

This award will fund the creation of an at-scale platform for advanced wireless research to be deployed across the Iowa State University (ISU) campus, City of Ames (where ISU resides), and surrounding research and producer farms as well as rural communities in central Iowa, spanning a rural area with diameter over 60km. The platform, called ARA: Wireless Living Lab for Smart and Connected Rural Communities, will address the rural broadband challenge by enabling the research and development of rural-focused wireless technologies that provide affordable, high-capacity connectivity to rural communities and industries such as agriculture. This project is part of the NSF Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) program.ARA aims to deploy advanced wireless platforms in real-world agriculture and rural settings, capturing the systems and environmental properties as well as the application and community contexts of rural broadband. For instance, ARA features the future of precision agriculture in both crop and livestock farms, involving automated ground vehicles as well as cameras and sensors. The platform features unique wireless technologies ranging from low-UHF massive Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) antennas to millimeter-Wave wireless access and long-distance backhaul, free-space optical, and low-earth-orbit (LEO) satellite communications, employing both software-defined-radio (SDR) and programmable commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) platforms, effectively leveraging open-source wireless software platforms such as OpenAirInterface, srsLTE, and others, with a contiguous coverage of hundreds of square miles of rural areas, ARA serves as an at-scale, deeply-programmable infrastructure for rural wireless research in real-world settings. Transforming the physical infrastructure into a research instrument supporting rigorous scientific studies and application trials, AraSoft, the software system of ARA, will enable reproducible, convenient experimentation and facilitates cross-discipline, cross-community collaborations. The project team is led by researchers at Iowa State University along with researchers participating from University of California – Irvine, Ohio State University and International Computer Science Institute. With oversight from the Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) Project Office, this team will design, deploy, operate, and sustain ARA as a revolutionary experimentation platform to support advanced research on rural broadband, 5G wireless systems and beyond. Information on the access to this PAWR platform is available on https://www.advancedwireless.org. The project is also supported with funding from the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA).This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项将资助创建一个大规模的先进无线研究平台，该平台将部署在爱荷华州立大学 (ISU) 校园、艾姆斯市（ISU 所在地）、周边研究和生产农场以及农村社区。该平台位于爱荷华州中部，覆盖直径超过 60 公里的农村地区，名为 ARA：智能互联农村社区无线生活实验室，将通过研究和开发以农村为中心的无线技术来解决农村宽带挑战，这些技术提供价格实惠、价格实惠的服务。高容量连接该项目是 NSF 高级无线研究平台 (PAWR) 计划的一部分。ARA 旨在在现实世界的农业和农村环境中部署先进的无线平台，同时捕获系统和环境特性。例如，ARA 展示了农作物和畜牧业精准农业的未来，包括自动化地面车辆以及摄像头和传感器。多输入多输出 (MIMO)毫米波无线接入和长距离回程、自由空间光学和低地球轨道（LEO）卫星通信的天线，采用软件定义无线电（SDR）和可编程商用现成（ COTS）平台，有效利用 OpenAirInterface、srsLTE 等开源无线软件平台，连续覆盖数百平方英里的农村地区，ARA 充当ARA 的软件系统 AraSoft 将物理基础设施转变为支持严格科学研究和应用试验的研究仪器，将实现可重复、便捷的实验，并促进现实环境中农村无线研究的大规模、深度可编程基础设施。该项目团队由爱荷华州立大学的研究人员以及来自加州大学欧文分校、俄亥俄州立大学和国际计算机科学研究所的研究人员领导，并受到高级无线研究平台的监督。 (PAWR) 项目办公室，该团队将设计、部署、运营和维护 ARA 作为革命性的实验平台，以支持农村宽带、5G 无线系统等方面的高级研究。有关访问该 PAWR 平台的信息，请访问 https： //www.advancedwireless.org。该项目还得到了美国农业部 (USDA) 国家食品和农业研究所 (NIFA) 的资助。该奖项是 NSF 的法定使命，经过评估被认为值得支持。使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。

项目成果

CHI-in-a-Box: Reducing Operational Costs of Research Testbeds

CHI-in-a-Box：降低研究测试台的运营成本

• DOI: 10.1145/3491418.3530768
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing
• 作者: Keahey, Kate;Anderson, Jason;Sherman, Michael;Hammock, Cody;Zhen, Zhuo;Tillotson, Jenett;Bargo, Timothy;Long, Lance;Ul Islam, Taimoor;Babu, Sarath
• 通讯作者: Babu, Sarath

Wireless guard for trustworthy spectrum management

无线卫士可实现值得信赖的频谱管理

• DOI: 10.1145/3556564.3558241
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Experimental evaluation and CHaracterization (WiNTECH
• 作者: Shahid, Mukaram;Babu, Sarath;Zhang, Hongwei;Qiao, Daji;Guan, Yong;Boateng, Joshua Ofori;Islam, Taimoor Ul;Zu, Guoying;Kamal, Ahmed;Zheng, Mai
• 通讯作者: Zheng, Mai

Interference and Coverage Analysis of mmWave Inter-Vehicle Broadcast with Directional Antennas

• DOI: 10.1109/icc45855.2022.9838709
• 发表时间: 2021-12
• 期刊: ICC 2022 - IEEE International Conference on Communications
• 作者: Tianyi Zhang;Hongwei Zhang;Zhibo Meng