A reservation always targets a specific domain — an isolated
environment with its own console and control network. The COSMOS / ORBIT
domains form three tiers:
The overall live state of every domain is on the
Status dashboard.
| Domain | Where | Description |
|---|---|---|
| BED | West Harlem rooftops, New York City | The main COSMOS testbed: outdoor SDRs (USRP X310 / N310 / 2974), 28 GHz mmWave PAAM, O-RAN-compliant base stations and O-RUs, optical x-haul backhaul, and edge compute co-located with the radios. |
| Grid | WINLAB, Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ | The indoor testbed, based on the legacy ORBIT 20×20 radio grid: 62 generation-3 + 338 generation-1 nodes, four Massive-MIMO mini-racks (each 8× USRP X310), the CAWIS noise-injection subsystem, and a GPS-disciplined Octoclock clock reference. |
Reservable by any testbed user. Each has a focused capability:
Small isolated environments — typically 2 nodes plus a console — for
developing and debugging experiments before scaling to BED or Grid:
sb1, sb2, sb3, sb4, sb9sb1.cosmos, sb2.cosmos, instrument.cosmosSee the Sandboxes index for
the per-sandbox specialisation table.
The legacy ORBIT outdoor deployment: ~22 fixed and mobile radio nodes
spread across the WINLAB site on Route 1 (North Brunswick) and the Core
Building on Busch Campus (Piscataway), plus netbooks and Android phones
addressed by column groups (1-x fixed, 2-x mobile, 3-x laptops,
4-x phones).
A small model intersection built inside the ORBIT grid room at
WINLAB, scaled to the 120th Street × Amsterdam Avenue intersection
in NYC (next to Columbia University). Wired for model-car
self-driving experiments, V2X messaging, and intersection-perception
research.
See the Minicity page
for the inventory (1 mobile car, 4 corner nodes, 1 server), network
layout, and reservation notes.
Indoor industrial / advanced-manufacturing experiment site at
Rutgers NJAMI / Weeks Hall — part of the Pilot 5G Factory in
Weeks Hall collaboration with Siemens. Focus: low-latency,
high-reliability private 5G integrated with edge computing for
reconfigurable manufacturing floors.
See the Weeks page for
the per-device hardware list, network planes (10.44/16 / 10.45/16 /
10.46/16), and the block diagram.
A small number of COSMOS subdomains are allocated to specific funded
research projects. They are not generally available for open
reservation, and the project rosters are not published here.
If you are a member of one of these project teams, your sysadmin will
have added you to the appropriate LDAP group; the relevant per-project
documentation is then linked from your private team workspace in the
wiki.
console.bed.cosmos-lab.org for BEDconsole.grid.cosmos-lab.org for the Gridconsole.sb5.cosmos-lab.org for SB1console.indoor.cosmos-lab.org for Outdooromf load -i <image>.omf tell, omf exec) or Ansible.See Getting Started for the full
walkthrough and OMF Commands for
the command reference.
Migration note. As COSMOS development continues, several of the
ORBIT-named sandboxes (sb1throughsb4) will be renamed and renumbered
to fit the COSMOS naming scheme. Until that physical move happens these
pages are kept under their current ORBIT names; redirects will be added
when the rename occurs.