Joint OSC/OSFG-OAI Workshop: End-to-End Reference Designs for O-RAN

The Joint OSC/OSFG-OAI Workshop: End-to-End Reference Designs for O-RAN was held in partnership with the Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things and the Open6G Center at Northeastern University Innovation Campus Burlington, MA, on November 14th and 15th, 2023.

The O-RAN Software Community (OSC) and the OpenAirInterface Software Alliance (OSA) have recently started collaborating, with the strong support of the O-RAN Open Source Focus Group (OSFG), to roll out end-to-end showcases of the O-RAN architecture, based on open source components developed by the two communities. The workshop demonstrated recent work in this direction.

The event also provided an opportunity to reflect on strengthening this collaboration, making code easily shareable between the two communities, and establishing a methodology for maintaining continuously integrated, delivered, and tested O-RAN reference designs.

AGENDA

Day One: 2023/11/14

Time Slot (EST) Speaker Affiliation Title
08:30 – 08:45 Tracy Van Brakle
Tommaso Melodia
Raymond Knopp
OSFG
Northeastern University
OpenAirInterface
Welcome and Introduction to the Workshop 
08:45 – 09:15 Sudharman Jayaweera National Science Foundation Keynote: Open-source Systems and Open RAN in NextG – NSF perspective
09:15 – 09:45 Tracy Van Brakle OSFG Keynote: Explaining the Super Wireless Blueprint and its Purpose
09:45 – 10:00 James Li OSC A Short Introduction to the O-RAN Software Community (OSC)
10:00 – 10:15 Raymond Knopp OpenAirInterface A Short Introduction to OAI
10:15 – 10:45 COFFEE BREAK 
Special Session: Open Networks and Architecture
10:45 – 11:00 Adlen Ksentini EURECOM OpenAirInterface 5G Core Network: Status and Roadmap 
11:00 – 11:10 Neel Pandeya NI Unlocking the Potential of OpenAirInterface (OAI): NI’s Vision on Wireless Innovation
11:10 – 11:30 Ali Khayrallah Ericsson Securing Open Networks
11:30 – 12:30 David Debrecht
Ali Khayrallah
Raghu Rao
Kalyan Sundhar
Ian Wong
Hongwei Zhang
CableLabs
Ericsson
AMD
Keysight
VIAVI
Iowa State University
Panel: Testing Frameworks in O-RAN Trials, Products, and Deployments
Moderator: Michele Polese
12:30 – 13:30 LUNCH BREAK
Implementations of O-RAN Radio Stack within Different Open Source Communities
13:30 – 13:50 Florian Kaltenberger
Robert Schmidt
EURECOM
OpenAirInterface
OAI Working Practices, Development Process, and Roadmap
13:50 – 14:10 James Li OSC OSC Working Practices, Development Process, and Roadmap
14:10 – 14:30 Ganesh Shenbagaraman Radisys O-RAN Stack Reference Design – From Specs to Architecture to Implementation
14:30 – 15:00 COFFEE BREAK 
15:00 – 17:00 Poster Session Day 1: Usecases Leveraging Open Source Software
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Bruno Mendes

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Cédric Thienot

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Francesco Linsalata

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Adriyel Nieves

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Paulo Marques

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Melissa Elkadi

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Capgemini

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Firecell

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Politecnico di Milano

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Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Allbesmart

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EpiSci

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Intelligent Transportation System in Unlicensed Spectrum: Precise Point Positioning

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The O-RAN Labkit Based on OAI/OSC Code Components

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Advancing O-RAN to Facilitate Intelligence in V2X

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Implementation & Evaluation of a Smart Uplink Jamming Attack in a Public 5G Network

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An O-RAN Ready Solution: The OAIBOX

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L2 5G Emulator (5GEM)

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15:00 – 17:00 DEMO VISITS
17:00 – 19:00 RECEPTION & COLOSSEUM WIRELESS NETWORK EMULATOR VISIT
CLOSING OF DAY – 1

Day Two: 2023/11/15

Time Slot (EST) Speaker Affiliation Title
08:30 – 09:00 Jaydee Griffith NTIA Keynote: US National Innovation Initiatives to Facilitate the Adoption of Open and Interoperable Wireless Networks
09:00 – 09:30 Azhar Sayeed Red Hat Keynote: Open RAN Implementations and Challenges. How Can We Work as a Community and Create a Broader Ecosystem?
09:30 – 10:30 Timothy Carey
David Kinsey
Seshu Kumar Mudiganti
Azhar Sayeed
Qualcomm
OSC
Windriver
Red Hat
Panel: A Collaborative Open Source Approach to Deploying O-RAN
Moderator: Raymond Knopp
10:30 – 10:45 COFFEE BREAK 
Special Session: SCF Collaborations with O-RAN and OAI
10:45 – 10:50 Prabhakar Chitrapu SCF Small Cell Forum’s Open Source Collaborations
10:50 – 10:55 Bryan Kennedy Commscope O-RAN and Digital 4G/5G Network Solutions
10:55 – 11:00 Florian Kaltenberger EURECOM SCF FAPI Implementation in OAI
11:00 – 11:20 Andrei Radulescu Qualcomm SCF FAPI Reference Implementation in OAI and Opportunities for the Broader Community
Overview Session: Building End-to-End Systems Combining OSC and OAI Softwares

11:20 – 11:40

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12:00 – 12:20

12:20 – 12:40

Ahan Kak

Michele Polese

David Kinsey

Oleg Polyakov

Nokia Bell Labs

Northeastern University

OSC

Dell

A1 Policy-driven RAN Slicing with the OSC RIC and OpenAirInterface

Deploying an Automated Private 5G Network with NVIDIA ARC, OAI, & OpenRAN Gym

East Coast Bedminster Open Lab CI/CD

Open sourcing OAM

12:40 – 14:00 LUNCH BREAK
14:00 – 16:00 Poster Session Day 2: OAM, Deployment, Testing, and CI/CD/CT Methodologies for O-RAN

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Qiang Liu

Bo Tang

Hongwei Zhang

Leonardo Bonati

Fransiscus Asisi Bimo

Ramanagouda Odugoudar

Univ of Nebraska-Lincoln

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Iowa State University

Northeastern University

National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST)

4G5G Consultants

Automate Online Service Configuration in Network Slicing

An AI Testing Framework for Next-G O-RAN Networks

ARA Wireless Living Lab for O-RAN Testing & Integration in Rural & Agriculture Settings

Automated Testing of OAI and Open RAN Functionalities in a Virtualized Environment

OSC Taiwan Lab Initiatives: Experience with OSC and OAI Integration

OAI 5G Core & RAN on ARM Based Ampere Server

14:00 – 16:00 DEMO VISITS
16:00 CLOSING OF THE WORKSHOP

WORKSHOP RECORDINGS

Day One: 14 November, 2023

Due to a minor technical issue, the workshop recordings will start after the first coffee break.

Adlen Ksentini - EURECOM

Neel Pandeya - NI

Ali Khayrallah - Ericsson

Panel Day 1

Florian Kaltenberger/Robert Schmidt - EURECOM/OAI

James Li - OSC

Ganesh Shenbagaraman - Radisys

Day Two: 15 November, 2023

Jaydee Griffith - NTIA

Tal Liron - Google

Panel Day 2

Azhar Sayeed - Red Hat

Prabhakar Chitrapru - SCF

Bryan Kennedy - Commscope

Florian Kaltenberger - EURECOM

Andrei Radulescu - Qualcomm

Ahan Kak - Nokia Bell Labs

Michele Polese - Northeastern University

David Kinsey - OSC

Oleg Polyakov - Dell

WORKSHOP RECORDINGS: DEMOS & POSTERS

Demos compilation day 1

Posters compilation day 1

Demos compilation day 2

Posters compilation day 2