Date and time: Thursday 6 March 2025, 15:00-16:00 CET
Speaker: Ivan Seskar, WINLAB, Rutgers University
Title: COSMOS: A Platform for Wireless Innovation
Where: ONLINE only
Zoom: https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/66857695267
Abstract: For seven years, the COSMOS testbed in New York City has been a
leading platform for cutting-edge wireless research, spanning physical,
network, and application layers. This presentation details its architecture,
capabilities, and experimental framework.
Past experiments, illustrating the exploration of technologies from full-duplex and mmWave communications to open-source 5G system integration and O-RAN Alliance participation, will be highlighted. COSMOS’s impact on smart city development, particularly in urban connectivity and infrastructure management, will also be showcased.
The presentation concludes with a discussion of upcoming hardware upgrades
focused on FR3 and intelligent spectrum coordination experimentation.
Bio: Ivan Seskar is the Chief Technologist and Director/IT at WINLAB, Rutgers University responsible for experimental systems and prototyping projects. He is currently theprogram director for the COSMOS project responsible for the New York City NSF PAWR deployment.
He has also been the co-PI and project manager for all three phases of the NSF-supported ORBIT mid-scale testbed project at WINLAB, successfully leading technology development and operations since the testbed was released as a community resource in 2005 and for which the team received the 2008 NSF Alexander Schwarzkopf Prize for Technological Innovation.
Ivan is a co-chair of the IEEE Future NetworksTestbed Working Group, member of the IEEE Standardization Programs Development Board and the co-founder and CTO of Upside Wireless Inc.
