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

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Meet

the team

Sree Harshitha J

Joseph Malkasian

Rahul Biju

Dominic Catena

Dhruv Ramaswamy

Sonia Malhotra

Advisors: Ivan Seskar, Tracy Van Brakle

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Project Overview

  • Develop O-RAN Curriculum

  • Develop rApps

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

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O-RAN CLASS

Week 3 of O-RAN Curriculum: 2:00pm

  • Critical role of open interfaces for vendor interoperability

  • Intro to key O-RAN interfaces

  • O-RAN Alliance specifications

  • Benefits of open interfaces

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Security rApp

  • Familiarizing ourselves with the SDR’s on the orbit

  • Looking into ways to integrate the rApp with radios

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Cloud-Native O-RAN

Goal:

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

  • Implementing the “SMO for OAM” setup.

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Cloud-Native O-RAN

  • List of all docker containers required for the ODLUX GUI website.

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Cloud-Native O-RAN

In-Progress :

  • ODLUX (Opendaylight User Experience):

A web-based graphical user interface (GUI) built on top of OpenDaylight (ODL), used in O-RAN and ONAP platforms as a Network Management System (NMS) interface.

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Goals For Next Week

  • Draft Week 4 Assessment
  • Finish Week 5 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.
  • Try to get the Security rApp working with the SDRs
  • For additional resources and info, please visit https://praxeum.com.

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Thank you…