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

Meet

the team

Sree Harshitha J

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Ayden Wheless

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Joseph Malkasian

Rahul Biju

Dominic Catena

Dhruv Ramaswamy

Sonia Malhotra

Advisors: Ivan Seskar, Tracy Van Brakle

O-RAN CLASS

Second week of O-RAN Curriculum: 2:00pm

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• Disaggregation
• Functional splits
• Control/User planes
• Logical interfaces

Website: https://praxeum.com/

Security rApp

• Tacacs+ Server is set up on the orbit test bed

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• Is accessed by a client that uses it to authenticate using a python script

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• Has permissions configured for various user groups

Security rApp Continued

• Tacacs python script used as the client

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• Modify the code for the specific user to authenticate

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• Grants access to the server

Cloud-Native O-RAN

• Explored the O-RAN software stack.

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• https://github.com/o-ran-sc/it-tifg
• Setup the local development environment (Python 3.12, virtualenv).
• Installed the OpenDaylight (SDN Controller).
• Implemented “make run” testcase, but got errors.

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Goal:

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

Cloud-Native O-RAN

• Switched to the “SMO for OAM” setup.

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• https://github.com/o-ran-sc/oam/tree/master/solution
• Performing step-by-step environment setup.

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• Setup .env files and domain configs.
• Setup Docker Compose infrastructure.
• Simulated various network services (e.g., controller, VES collector).
• Debugged and resolved common setup issues (health checks, certificate installation, DNS/host issues).

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• Continuing the setup work.

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Cloud-Native O-RAN

In-Progress :

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• Service Management and Orchestration (SMO) platform setup for O-RAN in a simulated environment.

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Goals For Next Week

• Draft Week 3 Assessment
• Finish Week 4 curriculum for website
• Continue working on the SMO platform setup for OAM of O-RU.
• After setup, start running the test cases of O-RU test framework.
• For additional resources and info, please visit https://praxeum.com.

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Thank you…