The Fall 2019 edition of the OpenAirInterface Workshop was held at The Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing. from 3rd to the 5th of December, 2019. We thank our community for their participation in the event. We had a great time in Beijing thanks to you all!
The pdf of talks presented at the workshop are now available hereunder.
Training Day
December 3, 2019: Training of OpenAirInterface Software, RAN Intelligent Control, and Deployment Environment
The workshop started with a full day of training on the OpenAirInterface Software, the OAI deployment tools, RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) distributed under the MOSAIC5G project and known as the FlexRAN Controller, and the OAI Testing Tools.
| Time Slot | Instructor | Affiliation | Title |
| MORNING SESSION | |||
| 09:00AM – 10:30AM | Florian Kaltenberger | EURECOM OPENAIRINTERFACE SOFTWARE ALLIANCE |
The Basics of OpenAirInterface and status of 5G-NR developments |
| 10:30AM – 11:00AM | COFFEE BREAK | ||
| 11:00AM – 12:00PM | Florian Kaltenberger | EURECOM OPENAIRINTERFACE SOFTWARE ALLIANCE |
OpenAirInterface lower layer procedures and RAN splits |
| 12:00PM – 01:00PM | LUNCH BREAK | ||
| AFTERNOON SESSION | |||
| 01:00PM – 03:30PM | Navid Nikaein | EURECOM OPENAIRINTERFACE SOFTWARE ALLIANCE |
The OpenAirInterface MOSAIC5G FlexRAN and the the concept of RAN intelligent controller |
| 03:30PM – 04:00PM | COFFEE BREAK | ||
| 04:00PM – 05:00PM | Luhan Wang Tien-Thinh Nguyen |
BUPT EURECOM |
Latest features and developments in the OpenAirInterface 5G core network |
| 05:00PM – 06:00PM | Raphaël Defosseux | OPENAIRINTERFACE SOFTWARE ALLIANCE | OpenAirInterface data center Deployment and CICD environment |
Workshop Presentations and Demos
The next two days of the workshop included keynotes, presentations on technical topics and demo sessions on OpenAirInterface.
Day 1: December 4, 2019
| Time Slot | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| MORNING SESSION | |||
| 09:00AM – 09:30AM | Prof. Xiangming Wen Irfan Ghauri |
BUPT OPENAIRINTERFACE SOFTWARE ALLIANCE |
Welcome Speech OpenAirInterface: The Way Forward |
| 09:30AM – 10:30PM | Chih-Lin I | CHINA MOBILE | Keynote – O-RAN open source: Accelerating O-RAN product development |
| 10:30AM – 11:00AM | COFFEE BREAK | ||
| 11:00AM – 12:00PM | Lixin Sun | BAICELLS | Keynote – Vision of future open network to connect the other half |
| 12:00PM – 01:30PM | LUNCH BREAK AND DEMO VISITS | ||
| AFTERNOON SESSION | |||
| 01:30PM – 01:50PM | Yannan Yuan | CHINA MOBILE | Near-RT Radio Intelligent Controller: Unleash potential of customized RAN |
| 01:50PM – 02:10PM | Navid Nikaien | EURECOM OPENAIRINTERFACE SOFTWARE ALLIANCE |
MOSAIC5G project and tools for OpenAirInterface |
| 02:10PM – 02:30PM | Li Wang | BAICELLS | Open Hardware Reference Design for 5G Digital Indoor Solution |
| 02:30PM – 02:50PM | Florian Kaltenberger | EURECOM OPENAIRINTERFACE SOFTWARE ALLIANCE |
Real-time performance evaluation of relative calibration on the OAI 5G testbed |
| 02:50PM – 03:10PM | Ren-Jr Chen | ITRI | Operating OpenAirInterface in mmWave band |
| 03:10PM – 03:40PM | COFFEE BREAK AND DEMO VISITS | ||
| 03:40PM – 04:00PM | Kentaro Sawada | FUJITSU | FUJITSU’s contributions to OpenAirInterface in private LTE |
| 04:00PM – 04:20PM | Jia Sheng | TCL CORPORATION | 5G UE prototyping based on OpenAirInterface |
| 04:20PM – 04:40PM | PengFei Dai | INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS OF THE CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES | Modulated Wideband converter software radio platform for 5G and SCA system |
| 04:40PM – 05:00PM | Lionel Gauthier | EURECOM | Recent contributions to OpenAirInterface 4G core network |
Day 2: December 5, 2019
| Time Slot | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| MORNING SESSION | |||
| 09:00AM – 09:45AM | Youxiang Wang | CHINA UNICOM | Keynote – Way to an open RAN |
| 09:45AM – 10:30PM | Yang Yang | SHANGHAI TECH | Keynote – Multi-tier computing network for intelligent IoT |
| 10:30AM – 11:00AM | COFFEE BREAK | ||
| 11:00PM – 11:30PM | Tao Sun | CHINA MOBILE | Introduction of 5G phase II from a Standard perspective |
| 11:30PM – 12:00PM | Raphael Defosseux | OPENAIRINTERFACE SOFTWARE ALLIANCE | OpenAirInterface deployment in containers at EURECOM 5G data center environment under Red Hat Openshift |
| 12:30PM – 01:30PM | LUNCH BREAK AND DEMO VISITS | ||
| AFTERNOON SESSION | |||
| 01:30PM – 01:50PM | Javier Morgade | VICOMTECH | FeMBMS/eMBMS E2E prototyping using OpenAirInterface5G |
| 01:50PM – 02:10PM | Ningyu Chen | CHINA SATCOM | OpenAirInterface enables satellite-5G integration |
| 02:10PM – 02:30PM | Rayyan Salah | SUDAN TELECOM | A discussion of the use-cases of Sudan Telecom and OAI perspective |
| 02:30PM – 02:50PM | Qian Sun | CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES | Open RAN platform: Super base station |
| 02:50PM – 03:30PM | COFFEE BREAK AND DEMO VISITS | ||
| 03:30PM – 04:00PM | Clemens Felber | NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS | Prototyping wireless systems with NI SDR and open source stacks |
| 04:00PM – 04:30PM | Yuan Yao | V3 | High-performance heterogeneous SDR platform for 5G MIMO prototype & testing |
| 04:30PM – 05:00PM | Daqing Li | JIANGSU ETERN | Standard hardware for open source wireless communication |
| 05:00PM – 05:30PM | Chenyu Zhang | BUPT | High precision absolute timing prototype Based on OAI PHY signal |
Demos
Demos were run by the exhibitors throughout the workshop.
| Presenter | Affiliation | Demo Title |
| Hidehiko Tobe | iDAQS CO. LTD. JAPAN | Introducing RFSoC FPGA board for Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) |
| Ren-Jr Chen | ITRI | Showcasing of 4G/5G technology solutions |
| Xiang Yun | BAICELLS | Live Demo of 5G mMTC devices |
| Yoan Yao | V3 | 5G eMBB system on programmable SDR platform |
| Leilei Feng | IPLOOK | 5G core network and IMS core network |
Location
The workshop was held at
The BUPT Hotel
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
No 10, Xitucheng Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100876
People’s Republic of China
Thanks again for having joined us in Beijing, and stay tuned for exciting news in the follow-through of the workshop.
The OAI Team