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Colosseum is owned and operated by theInstitute for the Wireless Internet ofThings (WIoT) at Northeastern University,and housed at Northeastern's InnovationCampus in Burlington, MA

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About theInstitute for the WirelessInternet of Things

5G and 6G wireless systemsArtificial intelligence and machine learningfor wireless systemsSpace InternetSmart and connected implantable medicaldevicesSmart cities, oceans, and portsUnmanned aerial vehicles for civil andnational defense

Communication and networkingSensors, IoT devices, and energy harvesting Data analytics and machine learningmmWave and TeraHertz

Researchers and students at the Institute forthe Wireless Internet of Things envision afuture in which people and their environmentare wirelessly connected by a continuum of AI-powered devices and networks, from driverlesscars and search-and-rescue drone swarms toimplantable medical devices and smart cities.The institute is home to world-leadingexpertise, facilities, and technologies dedicatedto making wireless communicationsexponentially faster, more energy efficient, andmore secure.

Our research priorities:

Our interdisciplinary expertise includes:

Colosseum is the world’s largest radiofrequency networked emulator

Originally developed to support DARPA’sCollaborative Spectrum Challenge (SC2) throughan investment of over $20M, Colosseum isavailable to industry, universities and others inthe research community. Colosseum@Northeastern is supported by a $6M grantfrom the National Science Foundation and ispart of the Platforms for Advanced WirelessResearch (PAWR) program. Colosseum provides the fidelity of hardwarechannel emulators, the flexibility of cloud-basedemulators, and the scale of network simulators.It can emulate wireless applications and signals(with granularity at the RF signal level) traversingspace and reflecting off multiple objects andobstacles as they travel from transmitters toreceivers. With over 65,000+ channels emulatedat the same time, Colosseum can create virtualworlds modeling radios operating in open fields,downtown, shopping mall, or a desert, bygenerating more than 52 terabytes of data persecond.

About Colosseum Specifications

256 Software Defined Radios USRPs X310900 TB of Network Attached Storage (NAS)171 high-performance servers19 clock distribution systemsSoftware-based traffic generation solutionshosted on a pool of dedicated serversFull-mesh networking capability

Full protocol stacks for LTE, 5G, WiFi, customwaveformsCompatible with GNU Radio and MatlabFull Virtualization through LXC containersAI/ML models, software pipelines, datasetsMassive computational capabilities for ML-based training and inferenceSpectrum sharingTraffic generationMultiple RF scenarios availableSpectrum sharing and coexistenceORAN, network slicing, virtualizationDevelopment of xApps and rAppsmmWave, Massive MIMO, and smart antennasystemsSecurity and Privacy in wireless systems

Hardware highlights:

Capabilities and available libraries include:

Update existing channel models, scenarios,containersCreate custom scenarios based on models ormeasurementsProtocol Stack development and testing (LTE,5G, 6G, IoT)Measurement campaignsInteroperability testingCreation of datasetsAlgorithm and xApp developmentML in wireless systems (e.g., modulation andwaveform recognition)Deep reinforcement learningMobility modelsConduct experiments Bring your own hardwareSpectrum SharingVisualize the impact of decisions, actions,effects on spectrum and performance5G, 6G, IoT custom research projects

Expert consultants: Experienced professional researchers at theInstitute for the Wireless Internet of Things areavailable to provide consulting services toexecute complex projects on Colosseum:

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