If you use Colosseum for your research, please cite the following paper:
L. Bonati, P. Johari, M. Polese, S. D’Oro, S. Mohanti, M. Tehrani-Moayyed, D. Villa, S. Shrivastava, C. Tassie, K. Yoder, A. Bagga, P. Patel, V. Petkov, M. Seltser, F. Restuccia, A. Gosain, K.R. Chowdhury, S. Basagni, T. Melodia, “Colosseum: Large-Scale Wireless Experimentation Through Hardware-in-the-Loop Network Emulation,” in Proceedings of IEEE Intl. Symp. on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN), Virtual Conference, December 2021.
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Colosseum has been featured in the following publications:
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[link] - D. Villa, M. Tehrani-Moayyed, P. Johari, S. Basagni, T. Melodia, “CaST: A Toolchain for Creating and Characterizing Realistic Wireless Network Emulation Scenarios”, in Proceedings of ACM WiNTECH, Sydney, Australia, October 2022.
[link] - S. Mohanti, C. Bocanegra, S. G. Sanchez, K. Alemdar and K. R. Chowdhury, “SABRE: Swarm-Based Aerial Beamforming Radios: Experimentation and Emulation,” in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 21, no. 9, pp. 7460-7475, September 2022.
[link] - L. Bonati, M. Polese, S. D’Oro, S. Basagni, T. Melodia, “Intelligent Closed-loop RAN Control with xApps in OpenRAN Gym,” in Proceedings of European Wireless 2022, Dresden, Germany, September 2022.
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