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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 Cédric Thienot Francesco Linsalata Adriyel Nieves Paulo Marques Melissa Elkadi |
Capgemini Firecell Politecnico di Milano Worcester Polytechnic Institute Allbesmart EpiSci |
Intelligent Transportation System in Unlicensed Spectrum: Precise Point Positioning The O-RAN Labkit Based on OAI/OSC Code Components Advancing O-RAN to Facilitate Intelligence in V2X Implementation & Evaluation of a Smart Uplink Jamming Attack in a Public 5G Network An O-RAN Ready Solution: The OAIBOX 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 |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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11:20 – 11:40 11:40 – 12:00 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 |
| 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