ARA Use in Research

ARA users are invited to share your publications/projects and your stories using ARA.

Projects:

1. NSF AI Institute on Intelligent CI with Computational Learning in the Environment (ICICLE) ($20M)
2. NSF/USDA AI Institute for Resilient Agriculture (AIIRA) ($20M)
3. NSF AI Institute for Future Edge Networks and Distributed Intelligence (AI-EDGE) ($20M)
4. NTIA Innovation Fund Project ACCoRD on Acceleration of Compatibility and Commercialization for Open RAN Deployments ($42M)
5. NTIA Innovation Fund Project ArMORED on Architecture for Massive-MIMO Open RAN Energy-efficient Devices ($10M)
6. NSF AI-AgARENA Project on Advancing AI for Climate-Smart Agriculture
7. NSF National Radio Dynamic Zone Project ARA-NRDZ
8. NSF NeTS Project on Real-Time Liquid Wireless Networking
9. NSF RAISE Project on MISO Free-Space Optical Communications (AraOptical 2.0)
10. NSF POSE Project on Open-Source Ecosystem for Broadband Prairie (OPERA)

Articles:

1. Joshua Ofori Boateng, Tianyi Zhang, Guoying Zu, Taimoor Ul Islam, Sarath Babu, Florian Kaltenberger, Robert Schmidt, Hongwei Zhang, Daji Qiao, AraRACH: Enhancing NextG Random Access Reliability in Programmable Wireless Living Labs, IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft), 2025 (Best Paper Award)
2. Owen Perrin, Evan Gossling, Daji Qiao, Hongwei Zhang, A Measurement Study of Dynamics and Liquid Data Transport in OneWeb LEO Satellite Networks, IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), 2025.
3. Guoying Zu, Joshua Ofori Boateng, Varun S Advani, Taimoor Ul Islam, Vincent Lee, Sarath Babu, Md Nadim, Daji Qiao, Mohamed Y. Selim, and Hongwei Zhang, Real-World Integration and Evaluation of Open-Source 5G Core with Commercial RAN, IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), 2025.
4. Ahmad M. Nazar, Mohamed Y. Selim, Daji Qiao, Hongwei Zhang, NextG-GPT: Leveraging GenAI for Advancing Wireless Networks and Communication Research, International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, Tokyo, JApan, 2025.
5. Jinwei Zhao, Owen Perrin, Ali Ahangarpour, Jianping Pan, Measuring the OneWeb Satellite Network, IEEE/IFIP Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA), 2025
6. Mukaram Shahid, Kunal Das, Hadia Ushaq, Hongwei Zhang, Jiming Song, Daji Qiao, Sarath Babu, Yong Guan, Zhengyuan Zhu, Arsalan Ahmad, ReVeal: A Physics-Informed Neural Network for High-Fidelity Radio Environment Mapping, IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN), 2025
7. Zack Murry, Alicia Esquivel Morel, Kate Keahey, 5G in Practice: Measuring Emerging Rural Wireless Technology for Edge Devices in Distributed Computation Workloads, The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC), 2024.
8. Zhibo Meng, Hongwei Zhang, Joint Scheduling and Power Control for Predictable Per-Packet Reliability in URLLC, IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), 2024
9. Muhammad A. Imran, Marco Zennaro, Olaoluwa R. Popoola, Luca Chiaraviglio, Hongwei Zhang, Pietro Manzoni, Jaap van de Beek, Robert Stewart, Mitchell A. Cox, Luciano Mendes, Ermanno Pietrosemoli, Exploring the Boundaries of Connected Systems: Communications for Hard-to-Reach Areas and Extreme Conditions, Proceedings of the IEEE, 2024
10. E. K. A. Permatasari, E. Gosling, M. Nadim, S. Babu, D. Qiao, H. Zhang, M. Luby, J. W. Byers, L. Minder, and P. Aggrawal, Real-Time Liquid Wireless Transport for Video Streaming in Rural and Agricultural Applications, ACM Mile High Video (MHV), 2024
11. Tianyi Zhang, Guoying Zu, Taimoor Ul Islam, Evan Gossling, Sarath Babu, Daji Qiao, Hongwei Zhang, Exploring Wireless Channels in Rural Areas: A Comprehensive Measurement Study, IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF), 2023 (Best Paper Honorable Mention)