The ARA Wireless Living Lab serves as a living laboratory for advancing wireless, networking, edge computing, and cyberinfrastructure research. Through its extensive rural deployment, ARA continuously generates diverse datasets from operational networks, experimental wireless platforms, and real-world applications. These datasets provide researchers with unique opportunities to study system behavior at scale, evaluate emerging technologies under realistic conditions, and develop innovative solutions for future connectivity challenges.
ARA datasets encompass measurements and observations from wireless communications, spectrum usage, network performance, edge and cloud computing systems, environmental sensing, precision agriculture, and connected rural communities. By making these datasets available to the broader research community, ARA aims to promote open science, accelerate innovation, enable reproducible experimentation, and support the development of next-generation communication and computing systems.
Available Dataset Categories
Spectrum Measurements
Massive MIMO
Wireless X-Haul
Dataset Access and Citation Requirements
ARA provides datasets through multiple access mechanisms depending on the nature of the data and associated usage policies. Publicly released datasets may be downloaded directly and used in accordance with their associated licenses and terms of use.
If you use ARA datasets in publications, presentations, reports, theses, dissertations, or other scholarly works, please cite both:
- The specific dataset(s) used in your work.
- The ARA Wireless Living Lab and any associated publications describing the infrastructure, measurement platform, or data collection methodology. Recommended citations for individual datasets and ARA-related publications will be provided with each dataset release.
Proper citation enables reproducibility, facilitates attribution, and supports the continued development and operation of the ARA Wireless Living Lab.
Contributing Datasets
Researchers conducting experiments on ARA are encouraged to contribute datasets back to the community whenever possible. Shared datasets improve reproducibility, foster collaboration, and accelerate innovation in wireless, networking, and cyberinfrastructure research.
If you are interested in contributing a dataset generated using ARA resources, please contact e2@arawireless.org with information about the dataset, associated project, and any relevant documentation. The ARA team will work with you to determine appropriate hosting, access policies, metadata requirements, and citation guidelines.