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

Taimoor Ul Islam, Joshua Ofori Boateng, Guoying Zu, Mukaram Shahid, Md Nadim, Wei Xu, Tianyi Zhang, Salil Reddy, Xun Li, Ataberk Atalar, Yung-Fu Chen, Sarath Babu, Hongwei Zhang, Daji Qiao, Mai Zheng, Yong Guan, Ozdal Boyraz, Anish Arora, Mohamed Y. Selim, Myra B. Cohen · 2023

Summary. ARA PAWR is a wireless living lab deployed in real agricultural and rural settings that achieves high-speed wireless access and backhaul performance, reaching 3.2 Gbps access throughput and over 10 Gbps backhaul throughput across 10+ km distances. The platform enables research experiments using TV white space, mmWave, and 5G technologies, and will be released publicly for community use to advance rural broadband innovation.

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Islam, T. U., Boateng, J. O., Zu, G., Shahid, M., Nadim, M., Xu, W., Zhang, T., Reddy, S., Li, X., Atalar, A., Chen, Y., Babu, S., Zhang, H., Qiao, D., Zheng, M., Guan, Y., Boyraz, O., Arora, A., Selim, M. Y., & Cohen, M. B.. (2023). ARA PAWR: Wireless Living Lab for Smart and Connected Rural Communities. https://doi.org/10.1145/3570361.3614068

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DOI: 10.1145/3570361.3614068
Countries: United States
Regions: North America
Categories: broadband-and-digital, regional-innovation-systems
Added: 2026-04-28