Paper Info
Title
ARA: A Wireless Living Lab Vision for Smart and Connected Rural Communities
Abstract
ABSTRACTThe rural US includes 72% of the nation's land and 46 million people, and it serves as major sources of food and energy for the nation. Thus rural prosperity is essential to US wellbeing. As a foundation for next-generation rural economy and communities, broadband connectivity is a key driver of rural prosperity. Yet 39% of the rural US lacks broadband access, and most agriculture (ag) farms are not connected at all. To address the rural broadband challenge, we will develop the ARA rural wireless living lab. ARA will not only serve as a first-of-its-kind, real-world wireless experimental infrastructure for smart and connected rural communities, it will also provide the living lab processes, activities, and organizations to engage the broad wireless and application communities in the research, education, innovation, and pilot of affordable, high-capacity rural broadband solutions. Through this visioning article, we illustrate the community, application, economic, and operational contexts of rural wireless, the design of ARA, ARA-enabled research, and how ARA is expected to make rural broadband as affordable as urban broadband today. This article is also a call-to-action for the broad wireless and application communities to participate in the ARA living lab activities and to join the ARA Consortium of public-private partners in shaping the future of advanced wireless, rural broadband, and rural communities in general.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1145/3477086.3480837
Mobile Computing and Networking
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
22
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hongwei Zhang193567.71
Yong Guan223221.02
Ahmed E. Kamal32068147.26
Daji Qiao41305142.62
Mai Zheng514112.67
Anish Arora62974270.71
Ozdal Boyraz700.34
Brian Cox800.34
Thomas Daniels900.34
Matthew J. Darr1031.94
Douglas Jacobson1101.35
Ashfaq Khokhar1200.34
Sang Wu Kim1327047.79
James Koltes1400.34
Jia Liu1520218.09
Mike Luby1600.34
Larysa Nadolny1700.34
Joshua Peschel1800.34
P. S. Schnable19112.22
Anuj Kumar Sharma2023.79
Arun K. Somani212041216.71
Lie Tang22578.21