ARA Technical Documents

Main ARA Reference

• Taimoor Ul Islam, Joshua Ofori Boateng, Md Nadim, Guoying Zu, Mukaram Shahid, Xun Li, Tianyi Zhang, Salil Reddy, Wei Xu, Ataberk Atalar, Vincent Lee, Yung-Fu Chen, Evan Gossling, Elisabeth Permatasari, Christ Somiah, Owen Perrin, Zhibo Meng, Reshal Afzal, Sarath Babu, Mohammed Soliman, Ali Hussain, Daji Qiao, Mai Zheng, Ozdal Boyraz, Yong Guan, Anish Arora, Mohamed Selim, Arsalan Ahmad, Myra B. Cohen, Mike Luby, Ranveer Chandra, James Gross, Kate Keahey, Hongwei Zhang, Design and Implementation of ARA Wireless Living Lab for Rural Broadband and Applications, Computer Networks (2025): 111188. (bibtex entry)

Articles

• 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)
• M. Nadim, T. Islam, S. Reddy, T. Zhang, Z. Meng, R. Afzal, S. Babu, A. Ahmed, D. Qiao, A. Arora, H. Zhang, AraSync: Precision Time Synchronization in Rural Wireless Living Lab, ACM Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation & Characterization (WiNTECH), 2024
• Joshua Ofori Boateng, Tianyi Zhang, Guoying Zu, Taimoor Ul Islam, Sarath Babu, Hongwei Zhang, Daji Qiao, AraSDR: End-to-End, Fully-Programmable Living Lab for 5G and Beyond, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2024
• Tianyi Zhang, Joshua Ofori Boateng, Taimoor UI Islam, Arsalan Ahmad, Hongwei Zhang, Daji Qiao, ARA-O-RAN: End-to-End Programmable O-RAN Living Lab for Agriculture and Rural Communities, IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on Next-Generation Open and Programmable Radio Access Networks (NG-OPERA), 2024
• Taimoor Ul Islam, Tianyi Zhang, Joshua Ofori Boateng, Evan Gossling, Guoying Zu, Sarath Babu, Hongwei Zhang, Daji Qiao, AraMIMO: Programmable TVWS mMIMO Living Lab for Rural Wireless, ACM Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation and CHaracterization (WiNTECH), 2023 (Best Paper Award)
• Taimoor U. Islam, Joshua O. 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 Selim, Myra B. Cohen, ARA PAWR: Wireless Living Lab for Smart and Connected Rural Communities, 29th ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking Demos Session (MobiCom), 2023  (demo)
• 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)
• Guoying Zu, Md Nadim, Salil Reddy, Taimoor Ul Islam, Sarath Babu, Tianyi Zhang, Daji Qiao, Hongwei Zhang, Anish Arora, AraHaul: Multi-Modal Wireless X-Haul Living Lab for Long-Distance, High-Capacity Communications, IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF), 2023
• Mukaram Shahid, Sarath Babu, Hongwei Zhang, Daji Qiao, Yong Guan, Joshua Ofori Boateng, Taimoor Ul Islam, Guoying Zu, Ahmed Kamal, Mai Zheng, Wireless Guard for Trustworthy Spectrum Management, ACM Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation and CHaracterization (WiNTECH), 2022
• Hongwei Zhang, Yong Guan, Ahmed Kamal, Daji Qiao, Mai Zheng, Anish Arora, Ozdal Boyraz, Brian Cox, Thomas Daniels, Matthew Darr, Doug Jacobson, Ashfaq Khokhar, Sang Kim, James Koltes, Jia Liu, Michael Luby, Larysa Nadolny, Joshua Peschel, Patrick Schnable, Anuj Sharma, Arun Somani, Lie Tang, ARA: A Wireless Living Lab Vision for Smart and Connected Rural Communities, 15^th ACM Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation and CHaracterization (WiNTECH), 2021 (bibtex entry)
• Xun Li, Mustafa Mert Bayer, George Nikolaev Guentchev, and Ozdal Boyraz, Design and Prototype of Auto-Track Long-Range Free-Space Optical Communications, Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC), 2022 (poster)

Talks

• Hongwei Zhang, ARA Overview and Call for Participation, ARA Public Launch, September 2023 [video]
• Hongwei Zhang, Connecting the Unconnected: from Challenges to Opportunities, Brazilian Symposium on Telecommunications and Signal Processing, September 2021
• Hongwei Zhang, ARA Wireless Living Lab and CHI@Edge, Chameleon@Edge Community Workshop, September 2021
• Hongwei Zhang, ARA: Wireless Living Lab for Smart and Connected Communities, IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT), June 2021
• First ARA Research Community Workshop, June 2021
  • ARA vision
  • ARA infrastructure, and software platforms to be supported for user experiments
  • Software architecture & Experimentation workflow
  • Research community activities
    (Recording of presentations)