O-RAN Curriculum Development, Cloud-Native O-RAN

Meet

the team

Sree Harshitha J

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Joseph Malkasian

Rahul Biju

Dominic Catena

Dhruv Ramaswamy

Sonia Malhotra

Advisors: Ivan Seskar, Tracy Van Brakle

Project Overview

• Develop O-RAN Curriculum

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• Develop rApps

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• Deploy cloud infrastructure to host cloud-native O-RAN functions

O-RAN CLASS

Week 4 of O-RAN Curriculum is pushed to next Thursday.

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Includes Students from Univ. of Texas Dallas + students from South Korea.

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• Introduction to Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and its application in Open RAN.

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• Benefits of virtualization and cloudification: Flexibility, scalability, resource efficiency.

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• High-level challenges of virtualizing RAN functions (performance, latency).

Website: https://praxeum.com/

rApp Development

Looking into new rApps to develop regarding use cases for UAVs.

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Cloud-Native O-RAN

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Goal:

Setting up the SMO for OAM of O-RU test framework

• Implementing the “SMO for OAM” setup.

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• https://github.com/o-ran-sc/oam/tree/master/solution
• Performed environment setup.
• Able to login to the website: https://odlux.oam.smo.o-ran-sc.org/
• Target is to monitor network elements via GUI portal of SMO.

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Cloud-Native O-RAN

• Landing page of “OpenDaylight User Experience” website for OAM of O-RU test framework. Which is a GUI for SMO of O-RU and O-DU components.

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Cloud-Native O-RAN

In-Progress : Connection Status Log of O-DU and O-RU

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Cloud-Native O-RAN

In-Progress : Event Log

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Goals For Next Week

• Continue curriculum development
• Continue working on the SMO platform setup for OAM of O-RU.
• After setup, start running the test cases of O-RU test framework.
• Work on developing new rApps

Thank you…