COSMOS / ORBIT carries two distinct families of antennas, deployed in
two very different environments. They are documented separately because
the radiation patterns, frequencies, mounting, and use cases barely
overlap.
| Where | What's there | Page |
|---|---|---|
| Outdoor — COSMOS rooftops in West Harlem (NYC) | Directional sector antennas for the large nodes; multi-band omni antennas for the medium nodes; mmWave (28 GHz) IBM PAAM arrays integrated with the medium-node housing; co-located GPS receivers for every node | → Outdoor antennas |
| Indoor — ORBIT grid and sandboxes at WINLAB (NJ) | Dual-band blade antennas on internal WiFi devices; Taoglas multi-standard paddles on USRP nodes; 32-element Massive-MIMO arrays on the corner mini-racks; Fidelity Comtech FCI-3740 electronically-steerable arrays on a subset of X310-equipped nodes | → Indoor antennas |
If you're not sure which page applies: pick by where your experiment
runs — a reservation on bed.cosmos-lab.org, weeks.cosmos-lab.org, or
similar rooftop site → Outdoor; a reservation on grid or any of
the WINLAB sandboxes (sb1–sb4) → Indoor.
For the RF front-ends that sit between the SDR and the antennas, see
RF front-end.