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RENEW Features
The RENEW project will develop world’s first fully programmable and observable wireless radio network. With RENEW, wireless research and development community will be able to test diverse ideas and concepts, ranging from low-level hardware to all the way to novel applications. The project will support many firsts, like
Programmable wide-band radios, including 5G bands of 2.5 and 3.5 GHz
Large-scale MIMO, including massive MIMO
Novel PHY and network stacks, including 5G-like and WiFi-like protocol stacks
Observable at all layers of the protocol stack
Use of distributed computational resources throughout the infrastructure
RENEW is a partnership of Rice University, University of Michigan and Texas Southern University. The RENEW team will leverage extensive past experience, namely
Rice WARP (founded in 2006, PI Sabharwal), a high-performance open-source SDR platform that has been used by 450+ research papers as of November 2017.
Rice TFA wireless (founded 2006, PI Knightly) that is one of the largest free wireless network, in an under-resourced community, operational for more than a decade.
Rice Argos (founded in 2010, PI Zhong), developed the world’s first massive MIMO programmable platform.
UMich Mobilab (founded in 2011, PI Mao), has developed some of the most widely used mobile measurement toolkits.
TSU VR-Lab (PI Chen), has developed world’s open-source teaching labs for conducting experiments with physical objects, like robotic agents.
Project Timeline
April 2019
DEPLOYMENT
64-Antenna Base Station on POWDER with multiple fixed end-points.
May 2019
POWDER-RENEW INTEGRATION
Full Integration RENEWLab with capability to experiment over-the air with multiple design flows.
April 2020
DEPLOYMENT
Additional base stations with multi-cell synchronization capabilities on POWDER.
May 2020
POWDER-RENEW INTEGRATION
Configurable Realtime Massive MIMO PHY experimentation capability.
April 2021
DEPLOYMENT
Addition of Mobile Clients on shuttle buses on POWDER.
May 2021
POWDER-RENEW INTEGRATION
Full Stack experimentation capability with mobile and fixed clients: MAC Scheduler, CoMP, Core Network, Mobility.
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