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.

该奖项将资助建立一个高级无线研究，以在爱荷华州立大学（ISU）校园内部署高级无线研究，艾姆斯市（ISU住所），周围的研究和生产者农场以及爱荷华州中部的农村社区，跨越了60公里以上的农村地区。该平台称为ARA：针对智能和互联农村社区的无线生活实验室，将通过启用大致集中的无线技术的研究和开发来应对农村宽带挑战，这些技术为农村社区和可协议的农村社区和行业提供负担得起的高容量的连通性。该项目是高级无线研究（PAWR）计划的NSF平台的一部分。ARA旨在在现实世界的重新印度和农村环境中部署高级无线平台，捕获系统和环境属性以及农村宽带的应用和社区环境。例如，ARA以农作物和牲畜农场的精确农业的未来为特色，涉及自动化地面车辆以及相机和传感器。该平台采用独特的无线技术，从低UHF大量多重输入多重输出（MIMO）天线到毫米波无线访问以及长距离回程，自由空间光学的光学光学和低轨道（LEO）卫星（LEO）卫星卫星通信，都采用了软件范围的无线电话（SDR）和无线电话开放（SDR）和效率的平台（COTS），效率为COTSS），COTS效率（COTS），COTSERIGATY STEMATING STEMATION，COTSERAIGY STEPTION，COTSERY SPATIGY STEMATION，COTSURE SEPAIRE，CORSURE STEMATION，COUTSURY STEMATION，COURSURE STEMATIN ARA诸如OpenAirInterface，SRSLTE等平台，具有数百平方英里的农村地区的连续覆盖范围，可作为现实环境中农村无线研究的典型，可密切相似的基础设施。将物理基础设施转变为支持严格的科学研究和应用程序试验的研究工具，ARA的软件系统Arasoft将实现可重现，方便的实验和设施跨学科，交叉共同协作。该项目团队由爱荷华州立大学的研究人员领导，以及来自加利福尼亚大学欧文，俄亥俄州立大学和国际计算机科学研究所的研究人员。通过对高级无线研究平台（PAWR）项目办公室的监督，该团队将设计，部署，运营和维持ARA，作为一个革命性的实验平台，以支持对粗糙宽带，5G无线系统及其他地区的高级研究。有关访问此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。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响标准来评估NSF的法定任务。

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