General information:

Full name of OTIC:  North American OTIC in NYC Metro Area/East (COSMOS)

‍Correspondence address: 671 US 1 S, North Brunswick, New Jersey, US, 08902

Link to OTIC web site: http://otic.cosmos-lab.org

E-mail address: otic@cosmos-lab.org

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The North American OTIC in the NYC Metro Area is aimed at facilitating the design, development and deployment of a cloud-enhanced and open-software-defined wireless technologies, and provides multiple testbeds in order to support real-world experimentation on next-generation wireless technologies and applications. The facility is open to and encourages participation for almost all research and educational uses by those with a need. These include uses by universities, industry research labs, and both US and non-US institutions. With some provisions, use for product development and evaluation by commercial entities is also encouraged. Researchers can run experiments remotely on the testbed by logging into a web-based portal which will provide various facilities for experiment execution, measurements, and data collection across multiple testbeds.

The city-scale testbed is intended to enable several new classes of wireless experiments not currently supported by testbeds available to the research community. The “sweet spot” for experimenters is ultra-high access bandwidth coupled with low latency mobile networks and edge cloud services, an attractive target because it enables an entirely new class of interactive rich media applications associated with scenarios such as AR/VR for mobile users or cloud-assisted connected cars.

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‍Contacts:

‍Name: Ivan Seskar
Telephone number: +1-848-932-0944
E-mail: seskar@winlab.rutgers.edu
‍Responsibilities/ duties: Chief Technologist and Director,IT

Name: Janice Campanella
Telephone number: 1-848-932-0940
E-Mail: janice@winlab.rutgers.edu
‍Responsibilities/ duties: Business manager

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Hosts:

Rutgers University/WINLAB, AT&T

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Supported work and scope of services:

The OTIC is intended to enable several new classes of wireless experiments not currently supported by testbeds available to the research community. The “sweet spot” for experimenters is ultra-high access bandwidth coupled with low latency mobile networks and edge cloud services, an attractive target because it enables an entirely new class of interactive rich media applications associated with scenarios such as AR/VR for mobile users or cloud-assisted connected cars [via: https://www.cosmos-lab.org/experimentation ]

The OTIC features multiple testbeds:

• The indoor radio-grid testbed, which is central to the OTIC facility uses a novel approach based on a 20x20 two-dimensional grid of programmable radio nodes which can be interconnected into specified topologies with reproducible wireless channel models.
• Once the basic protocol or application concepts have been validated on the radio grid emulator, users can migrate their experiments to the OUTDOOR ORBIT network which provides a configurable mix of both high-speed cellular (WiMAX, LTE) and 802.11 wireless access in a real-world setting.
• An additional outdoor, city-scale testbed will be deployed in upper Manhattan and will consist of 40-50 advanced software-defined radio nodes along with fibre-optic front-haul and back-haul networks and edge and core cloud computing infrastructure. Researchers will be able to run experiments remotely on the testbed by logging into a web-based portal which will provide various facilities for experiment execution, measurements, and data collection. (wiki: COSMOS Testbed Overview)

The OTIC’s multiple testbed sites provide clients with multiple testbeds in which to verify the conformity of RAN equipment with O-RAN interface specifications, as well as to test and verify the interoperability of RAN equipment. It offers multiple use scales for clients to demonstrate implementations and solutions based on O-RAN specifications via plugfests and proofs of concept at varying use scales. Likewise, clients can conduct function and performance tests of end-to-end systems and sub-systems on varying deployment scales.

The facility provides opportunities for participants to share their work through ongoing speaker sessions as well as to foster and develop technical capabilities via tutorials and workshops hosted by the facility. The facility has a wiki page where participants can detail and share feedback about the experiences made with O-RAN specifications during the testing activities

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