April 1
The official start of the COSMOS projects
Deployment Plan
The COSMOS testbed will cover one square mile in West Harlem, with City College to the north, Columbia University’s Morningside Heights campus to the south, the Hudson River to the west, and Apollo Theater to the east. This vibrant, densely populated neighborhood is an ideal environment for pushing the limits of cutting edge technologies for fifth-generation (5G) and beyond wireless networks. The deployment area has been designated as an FCC Innovation Zone (see announcement). The envisioned deployment (composed of 3 stages outlined in the figure below) will include the following:
- 9 Large Sites
- 40 Medium sites
- Fiber optic connection from most sites
- 200 Small nodes ~Including vehicular and hand-held
- Fiber connection to NYU Data Center, Rutgers, GENI/I2
- Interaction with smart community & innovation initiatives (Gigabit center, etc.)
Coverage measurements of some of the currently operational COSMOS sites may be found here.
[1] D. Raychaudhuri, I. Seskar, G. Zussman, T. Korakis, D. Kilper, T. Chen, J. Kolodziejski, M. Sherman, Z. Kostic, X. Gu, H. Krishnaswamy, S. Maheshwari, P. Skrimponis, and C. Gutterman, “Challenge: COSMOS: A city-scale programmable testbed for experimentation with advanced wireless,” in Proc. ACM MobiCom’20, 2020. [download] [presentation] [long video] [short video]
COSMOS Timeline
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