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

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Meet

the team

Sree Harshitha J

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Joseph Malkasian

Rahul Biju

Dominic Catena

Sonia Malhotra

Advisors: Ivan Seskar, Tracy Van Brakle

Hasini Nandyala

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Project Overview

  • Develop O-RAN Curriculum

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  • Develop rApps

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  • Completed the setup of O-RU framework for testing Hybrid M-plane

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O-RAN CLASS

Week 6 of O-RAN Curriculum is scheduled at 2:00 pm

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Standardization and Future Trends

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○ A closer look at the O-RAN Alliance: Working groups and key specifications.

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○ The role of other industry consortia (e.g., TIP) in the Open RAN landscape.

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○ Ongoing standardization and the importance of Open Source.

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○ Future trends and Open discussion with review of the course material.

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Website: https://praxeum.com/

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rApp

  • Started setup of HelloWorld rApp
  • A1 Policy Management Service

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Cloud-Native O-RAN

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Goal: To set up O-RU framework for testing Hybrid M-plane

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  • Task-1: Setting up the SMO for OAM of O-RU test framework ✅
  • Task-2: Running Hybrid M-plane test cases in the O-RU test framework ✅

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Cloud-Native O-RAN

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Next Steps:

  • Trying to add a simple User interface for O-RU framework.

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  • Working on developing new test case for testing hybrid M-plane which is from O-RU to O-RU controller.

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Cloud-Native O-RAN

Test Cases Execution:

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Grafana Database

MinIO Console

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Cloud-Native O-RAN

Artifacts and Results of Test cases in Grafana:

Artifacts Dashboard

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Cloud-Native O-RAN

Artifacts and Results of Test cases in Grafana:

Results Dashboard

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Cloud-Native O-RAN

Conclusion

  • Deployed and configured the O-RU test framework using the O-RAN IT-TIFG and OAM Solution repositories.

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  • Validated O-RU management and interoperability by executing key Hybrid M-Plane test cases

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  • Demonstrated end-to-end integration of O-DU, O-RU, and SMO components

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Goals For Next Week

  • Additional content for the website
  • Work on HelloWorld rApp/possibly new test case for Hybrid M-Plane
  • Work on final presentation/poster

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Thank you…