With first-of-its-kind open-source and commercial-grade platforms supporting at-scale, high-capacity wireless x-haul, multi-band wireless access, LEO satellite communications, edge/cloud computing, as well as sensing and robotics applications in agriculture, transportation, and smart and connected communities in general, ARA enables real-world measurement and data curation for 6G, AI RAN, Open RAN, integrated sensing and communications, robotics (e.g., automated ground and aerial vehicles), and physical AI. In what follows, you may find existing publicly available datasets from ARA and how you can contribute to community data curation and sharing in ways that amplify the impact of your work.
Curated ARA Datasets
The following datasets are publicly available for research, innovation, and education use. If you may use any of the datasets for your work (e.g., publications, presentations, dissertations, or projects), you are encouraged to cite (1) the specific dataset(s) used and (2) the ARA wireless living lab and/or publications describing the specific ARA platforms used for curating the dataset(s). Proper citation is invaluable for reproducibility and community building, and it helps ensure the continued availability of ARA as a community testbed.
Spectrum Innovation
TVWS Spectrum Availability: Discover how much spectrum may be hiding in plain sight! This dataset reveals the availability of TVWS (TV White Space) spectrum across the U.S., helping researchers explore rural broadband planning, dynamic spectrum sharing, and data-driven policies that could transform underused spectrum into meaningful connectivity.
Massive MIMO
AraMIMO TVWS Massive MIMO Dataset: Explore what happens when massive MIMO moves beyond the indoor lab into real rural and agricultural environments! The AraMIMO dataset opens opportunities to study beamforming, user scheduling, coverage, and network capacity, showing how TVWS and multi-user MIMO can work together to deliver long-range, high-capacity rural connectivity.
Long-Distance, High-Capacity Wireless X-Haul
AraHaul Outdoor Wireless X-Haul Link Performance with Weather Measurements: Analyze how long-range, high-capacity wireless x-haul links respond when the weather changes! By combining outdoor microwave and millimeter-wave performance data with detailed weather measurements, this dataset enables research into link reliability, weather-aware link prediction, adaptive networking, resilient wireless x-haul across long distances, and wireless-based weather sensing.
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 email e2@arawireless.org with information about the dataset, associated project, and any relevant documentation. The ARA team will be more than happy to assist you in tasks such as determining appropriate hosting, access policies, and metadata curation.
If you are new to ARA, you may refer to information here to get started exploring the wonderful rural wireless world through ARA!