| | 5 | The purpose of this session is to provide an introduction to the COSMOS testbed with a hands on tutorial about basic usage of the testbed and a demonstration of several advanced use cases. The [https://cosmos-lab.org/ COSMOS testbed] is an NSF [https://advancedwireless.org/ PAWR] site deployed in New York City with a technical focus on ultra-high-bandwidth and low-latency wireless communications with tightly coupled edge computing, and emphasis on millimeter-wave (mmWave) radio communications and dynamic optical switching. The purpose of the testbed is to enable realistic at-scale experimental evaluation of new radio technologies, protocols and network architectures. The COSMOS testbed already supports at-scale experimentation of novel advanced wireless broadband and communication technologies in both sub-6 GHz and mmWave frequency bands in West Harlem in NYC, which is representative of a densely populated urban environment. The testbed provides a variety of fully programmable software-defined radio nodes for flexible wireless experimentation, along with heterogenous compute resources deployed in the datacenter and at the edge. It also includes a novel 100Gbps fiber backhaul interconnected with a software-defined network (SDN) switching fabric for minimum latency and flexibility in setting up experimental network topologies. |
