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

2018

April 1

Project Start

The official start of the COSMOS projects

July 1

Initial Design Release

December 1

Sandbox Deployment

Rooftop deployment of one large and one medium node at WINLAB facility

2019

February 28

Pilot Sandbox Deployment Release

Pilot sandbox deployment release to internal users

May 15

Pilot Deployment

Deployment of one large node and two medium nodes at CU and release to internal experimenters

May 21

1st Workshop

One day experimenter workshop and tutorials for research community

September 18

FCC Innovation Zone

FCC establishes Innovation Zone for COSMOS deployment area

2020

June 9

Testbed GA

COSMOS testbed General Availability announced

October 1

COSMOS Interconnecting Continents (COSM-IC)

Adding connections to international testbeds, including CPQD (Brazil), Kyutech/StarBED (Japan), OneLab/NITOS (EU/Greece), and CONNECT (Ireland)

October 14

2nd Experimenter Workshop

Two day workshop and tutorials for research community

2021

August 11

FCC Innovation Zone Expansion

Expansion of the COSMOS FCC Innovation Zone to include the Columbia Morningside and Manhattanville campuses and much of West Harlem

2022

August 31

Phase 1 Deployment*

Deployment of first phase of testbed across CU and CCNY sites, along with COSMOS control center at Rutgers

* originally planned for 03/01/2020; delayed due to COVID-19 and supply chain issues

September 1

ERC for for Smart Streetscapes (CS3)

Development and deployment of Smart Streetscape applications on COSMOS testbed

December 9

Phase 1 Internal Release*

Internal release of partial Phase 1 deployment for scaled experiment preparation and debugging

* originally planned for 05/15/2020; delayed due to COVID-19 and supply chain issues

2023

January 16

Phase 1 EA Release*

Phase 1 deployment release to early adopters for limited scale experimentation

* originally planned for 08/14/2020; delayed due to COVID-19 and supply chain issues

March 31

Phase 1 Release*

Phase 1 deployment release to general users

* originally planned for 10/01/2020; delayed due to COVID-19 and supply chain issues

September 1

Phase 2 Deployment*

Deployment of second phase of testbed across CU, CCNY and NYC sites, along with COSMOS control center at Rutgers; Phase 2 subject to availability of funding

* originally planned for 06/01/2021; delayed due to COVID-19 and supply chain issues

November 24

Phase 2 Deployment Release to Early Adopters*

Phase 2 subject to availability of funding

* originally planned for 09/01/2021; delayed due to COVID-19 and supply chain issues

2024

January 15

Full Deployment Release to General Public*

Phase 2 subject to availability of funding

* originally planned for 12/01/2021; delayed due to COVID-19 and supply chain issues