Date: Friday, Feb 27, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM CT
Abstract : AraMIMO is a first-of-its-kind, field-deployed TV White Space (low-UHF) multi-user mMIMO living lab designed and implemented to support rural broadband research and real-world experimentation using production-grade Skylark Faros V2 infrastructure. AraMIMO provides modding and wrapper APIs for configuration, programmability, data collection, and experiment automation through scripts and a user-friendly workflow. In this webinar, we will walk through the platform overview, capabilities, and end-to-end experiment workflow so the broader community can reproduce and design their own experiments on real rural deployments.
Bio: Taimoor Ul Islam is a Ph.D. student in Computer Engineering at the Center for Wireless, Communities and Innovation (WiCI) at Iowa State University. He received his B.E. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan, in 2014 and 2020, respectively. Before joining WiCI, he gained over six years of industry experience deploying, operating, and optimizing end-to-end networked systems at a nationwide Internet service provider. His research at WiCI focuses on real-time scheduling in multi-cell massive MIMO Open RAN networks, with broader interests in 5G/6G wireless systems, ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC), and rural broadband innovation. He currently serves as a lead student member on the $16M ARA Wireless Living Lab and $10M ArMORED projects. better scalability to enable a variety of new industrial use cases beyond mobile broadband access for smart phone users. These new use cases include augmented, extended and mixed reality (AR/VR/XR) applications, tele-operations of autonomous systems such as vehicles, robots and drones, Internet-of-things (IoT) for smart manufacturing and precision agriculture. Now six years into the 5G era, has 5G delivered on these promises? With talks about 6G also heating up, what lessons can we learn from the successes and failures of 5G deployment?