TECoSA Seminar – COSMOS: A Platform for Wireless Innovation

We aim to bring you a TECoSA Seminar on the first Thursday of each month during term-time.  All are welcome to attend and we look forward to some lively discussions. Members can accept the Outlook invitations, non-members can email tecosa-admin@kth.se to register.

Our February seminar is with Ivan Seskar, Chief Technologist and Director/IT at WINLAB, Rutgers University. The seminar will take place via Zoom, through this link.

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 the program 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 Networks Testbed Working Group, member of the IEEE Standardization Programs Development Board and the co-founder and CTO of Upside Wireless Inc.