Close range Massive MIMO deployment on Merrill Engineering Building rooftop

[Kirk Webb]

Dear POWDER Users,

We are pleased to announce the availability of a new close-range
POWDER-RENEW massive MIMO deployment on the Merrill Engineering
Building rooftop on the University of Utah campus. This deployment
targets a small area (approximately 17m x 60m), and provides realistic
outdoor conditions in a topology with short distances for improved
link budget.

The initial offering includes:

* A 64 TX/RX Skylark Faros array
* One client site with two Iris 030 client radios

In the next couple of weeks, we will bring online two more client
radio sites for a total of six client radios on the same rooftop. We
will also bring a separate calibration radio online to support the
real time Agora framework.

You can find documentation on using these resources on the RENEW wiki:

https://wiki.renew-wireless.org/en/quickstartguide/userenewonpowder

We hope you find this new facility exciting and useful for your
research! If you need access to POWDER's massive MIMO resources,
please send a request to
powder-...@powderwireless.net.

Best,
Kirk Webb on behalf of the POWDER and RENEW teams