POWDER is a city-scale “living laboratory” for conducting experiments in wireless technology.

Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Joined October 2017
For more information about POWDER office hours, read the announcement on the POWDER news page. powderwireless.net/news#news…
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🔜 A quick reminder that the POWDER team will hold online office hours on Friday, October 9. 🍂 Sign up for an appointment—
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A new DRIVE-SAFE case study shows how open RAN optimizes tele-operated driving. By deploying OCUDU on @powder_wireless, researchers used trajectory-aware 5G handovers to cut unnecessary cell switches. 📖 Read how open RAN drives 5G-A & 6G: ocudu.org/case-study/how-ocu… @UUtah
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A new case study from the @OCUDU_EF spotlights how an open 5G stack enables low-latency, application aware network services. Exciting to see this project from @powder_wireless @UUtah demonstrate what’s possible with real-world OCUDU deployments! ocudu.org/case-study/how-ocu…
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Our friends at the OCUDU Ecosystem Foundation @OCUDU_EF have turned our work on tele-operated driving with trajectory-driven network optimization into a case study for the OCUDU Project! The case study is available here: ocudu.org/wp-content/uploads…
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📢 Applications for the 2027 CyberPowder Fellows Program are now being accepted! Applications are due by Friday, November 13, 2026. Program info and application form: powderwireless.net/cyberpowd… Summary in thread. 🧵
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CyberPowder is an NSF-funded wireless networking hands-on training and research mentoring program for US-based graduate students. The program trains students to perform wireless-related research on POWDER, the world's largest openly accessible software-defined wireless testbed.
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For more information about POWDER office hours, read the announcement on the POWDER news page. powderwireless.net/news#news…
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Two POWDER-associated papers have been accepted for workshop presentations at the IEEE MILCOM 2026 conference! Both efforts use software from the OCUDU Ecosystem Foundation's OCUDU Technical Project to perform over-the-air testing. For more info: powderwireless.net/news#news…
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The first effort, lead by Rimedo Labs, will be presented at the 5G/6G Military Communications Workshop. The paper presents a proactive jamming-detection application designed to improve the resilience of 5G communications under intentional RF interference. arxiv.org/abs/2609.18499
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The second effort, by the POWDER team, will be presented at the NRDZCOM8: Demonstrable and Deployable Spectrum Coexistence and Agility Workshop. The paper describes new capabilities in OpenZMS, an open source Zone Management System. flux.utah.edu/paper/354
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The SpectrumX and POWDER teams are combining equipment and expertise to collaborate on spectrum sensing research. One of the SpectrumX Mobile Experimentation Platform (MEP) devices has been deployed as a bring-your-own-device in POWDER. For more info: powderwireless.net/news#news…
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We are excited to announce the availability of our first v1.1 RF front ends! The two new RF front ends are connected to NI N310 SDRs on the MEB and Browning rooftops. The new v1.1 RF front ends make more RF links feasible. For more info: powderwireless.net/news#news…
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🔜 A quick reminder that the POWDER team will hold online office hours on Friday, September 25. 🍂 Sign up for an appointment—
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For more information about POWDER office hours, read the announcement on the POWDER news page. powderwireless.net/news#news…
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🔜 A quick reminder that the POWDER team will hold online office hours on Friday, September 11. Sign up for an appointment—
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For more information about POWDER office hours, read the announcement on the POWDER news page. powderwireless.net/news#news…
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