COSMOS
Cloud Enhanced Open Software Defined Mobile Wireless Testbed for City-Scale Deployment
The COSMOS project is aimed at design, development, and deployment of a city-scale advanced wireless testbed in order to support real-world experimentation on next-generation wireless technologies and applications.
DEPLOYMENT
OUTREACH
A main goal of the COSMOS project is to transform the testbed-generated research into an innovative learning platform for K-12 students, in New York City and particularly in West Harlem.
TECHNOLOGY
Radio nodes in COSMOS provide a mix of fully programmable SDRs for flexible wireless experimentation as well as commercial hardware capable of supporting networking and applications research with currently available end-user devices

EXPERIMENTATION
The testbed is intended to enable several new classes of wireless experiments not currently supported by testbeds available to the research community. The “sweet spot” for experimenters is ultra-high access bandwidth coupled with low latency mobile networks and edge cloud services, an attractive target that could enable a new class of applications such as AR/VR for mobile users or cloud-assisted connected cars.
NEWS
Grant from the NSF SII-NRDZ program to support research in the COSMOS testbed, FCC Innovation Zone, and NOAA-CESSRST
The COSMOS team and collaborators received a $1.25 NSF Grant from the Spectrum Innovation Initiative: National Radio Dynamic Zones (SII-NRDZ) program,
Partnering with NYCMesh to provide wireless connectivity in West Harlem
The COSMOS team partnered with NYCMesh to install NYCMesh antennas in one of the COSMOS Large nodes. NYCMesh is a group
Experimentation using COSMOS featured in ASCE Civil Engineering Magazine
An article in the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Civil Engineering Source features The a project funded by the NSF and the Federal
COSMOS team members take part in 3 NSF/DOD Convergence Accelerator teams
COSMOS team members take part in 3 teams of the NSF and DoD Convergence Accelerator’s Track G: Securely Operating Through 5G
3 recent research papers and a dataset – mmWave, Optical, and ORAN
A paper and dataset describing an extensive 28 GHz mmWave measurement campaign to study outdoor-to-indoor signal propagation and user coverage
NSF and the Indian Department of Science and Technology support a US-India Project that will use the COSMOS Testbed and T-CPS Testbed in Mohali, Punjab
A US-India team will jointly focus on a key application in smart cities – transportation management and will use the
Videos from the COSMOS cameras are available
Unveiling some of the team’s efforts to support smart city traffic monitoring experiments, the COSMOS team published anonymized videos taken
FUNDED BY
COSMOS is part of the National Science Foundation’s PAWR program and is funded in part by NSF award CNS-1827923 and by the PAWR Industry Consortium.