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Preparing the First Fully Programmable Wireless Network
Surya Paruchuri (left) and Lev Shuhatovich of Skylark Wireless assemble a multi-antenna "massive MIMO" base station at Rice University's Center for Multimedia Communications.
Credit: Doni Soward / Rice University
Researchers at Rice University are developing the world's first fully programmable and observable wireless communications network in Salt Lake City, Utah. Rice's Reconfigurable Ecosystem for Next-gen End-to-end Wireless (RENEW) technology is part of a nationwide effort to prepare for a future in which virtually everything will demand wireless data.
In conjunction with RENEW, the University of Utah has unveiled its Platform for Open Wireless Data-driven Experimental Research (POWDER), a city-scale wireless test platform for telecoms, tech companies, and research institutions. POWDER will support tests with up to 40,000 users over a 5-square-mile area covering much of the University of Utah campus and downtown Salt Lake City.
RENEW will use technologies developed at Rice's Center for Multimedia Communications, Texas Southern University's Virtual and Remote Laboratory, and the University of Michigan's MobiLab. These include massive MIMO (multi-user, multiple-input, multiple-output), which uses base stations with hundreds of antennas to simultaneously serve many users on the same frequency.
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