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Agora: Democratizing Low Latency Wireless for Remote
XR Medical Collaboration

The Agora Project project aims to overcome critical barriers to modern healthcare: the inability to deliver specialized, high-level medical expertise exactly when and where it's urgently needed.

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Specialized, high-level medical expertise is a scarce resource, and is often not available at the time and
location it is urgently needed. Extended reality (XR) technology could bring experts to where they are needed, assisting on-site personnel and potentially making the difference between an outcome for the patient that is safe and timely or not. The Agora Project will create an innovative system and platform that delivers wireless low-latency extended reality (XR) remote medical collaboration.

The Agora Project is made possible via the NSF 24-545 Breaking Low Program (Awards 2454014, 2454015) and will advance both in XR-based medical applications and the underlying XR and networking technology stack to enable practically deployable low latency service.

Areas of Impact

Medical Applications

XR medical training app and extensions to the FDA-cleared AR-guided surgical platform, enhanced with remote collaboration and cross-layer performance signaling.

XR Runtime

An OpenXR runtime architecture that promotes application-runtime-network co-design by actively tolerating network latency, adapting demand to network conditions, and informing the network about heterogeneous requirements.

Transport Protocol

A latency-aware, multi-path protocol that optimizes fine-grained steering of individual packets onto multiple service types (5G URLLC, eMBB, WiFi 7).

Wireless Service

A Fine-Grained Dynamic Radio Resource Control solution that satisfies both low-latency (URLLC) and high-throughput (eMBB) demands in parallel, optimizing spectral efficiency.