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StormShield: Fingerprint-Based Detection and Mitigation of RRC Signaling Storms in O-RAN 5G RANs
Noemi Giustini, Andrea Lacava, Leonardo Bonati +4
5G networks provide low-latency, high throughput, and massive connectivity, yet the control plane remains exposed to several security threats. Among the most common and impactful t…
RANalyzer: Automated Continuous RAN Software Evaluation and Regression Analysis
Ravis Shirkhani, Reshma Prasad, Leonardo Bonati +2
Software-driven O-RAN architectures enable rapid innovation through frequent, independent updates to virtualized components. However, attributing performance variations to specific…
Predicting Conflict Impact on Performance in O-RAN
Pietro Brach del Prever, Niloofar Mohamadi, Salvatore D'Oro +7
The O-RAN Alliance promotes the integration of intelligent autonomous agents to control the Radio Access Network (RAN). This improves flexibility, performance, and observability in…
TENORAN: Automating Fine-grained Energy Efficiency Profiling in Open RAN Systems
Ravis Shirkhani, Stefano Maxenti, Leonardo Bonati +7
The transition to disaggregated and interoperable Open Radio Access Network (RAN) architectures and the introduction of RAN Intelligent Controllers (RICs) in O-RAN creates new reso…
xDevSM: An Open-Source Framework for Portable, AI-Ready xApps Across Heterogeneous O-RAN Deployments
Angelo Feraudo, Stefano Maxenti, Andrea Lacava +4
Openness and programmability in the O-RAN architecture enable closed-loop control of the Radio Access Network (RAN). Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven xApps, in the near-real-tim…
SIA: Symbolic Interpretability for Anticipatory Deep Reinforcement Learning in Network Control
MohammadErfan Jabbari, Abhishek Duttagupta, Claudio Fiandrino +5
Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) promises adaptive control for future mobile networks but conventional agents remain reactive: they act on past and current measurements and cannot…
MANATEE: A DevOps Platform for xApp Lifecycle Management and Testing in Open RAN
Sofia Montebugnoli, Leonardo Bonati, Andrea Sabbioni +5
The shift to disaggregated 5G architectures introduces unprecedented flexibility but also significant complexity in Beyond 5G Radio Access Networks (RANs). Open RAN enables program…
On AI Verification in Open RAN
Rahul Soundrarajan, Claudio Fiandrino, Michele Polese +3
Open RAN introduces a flexible, cloud-based architecture for the Radio Access Network (RAN), enabling Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML)-driven automation across he…
TailO-RAN: O-RAN Control on Scheduler Parameters to Tailor RAN Performance
Nicolo Longhi, Salvatore D'Oro, Leonardo Bonati +3
The traditional black-box and monolithic approach to Radio Access Networks (RANs) has heavily limited flexibility and innovation. The Open RAN paradigm, and the architecture propos…
AgentRAN: An Agentic AI Architecture for Autonomous Control of Open 6G Networks
Maxime Elkael, Salvatore D'Oro, Leonardo Bonati +4
Despite the programmable architecture of Open RAN, today's deployments still rely heavily on static control and manual operations. To move beyond this limitation, we introduce Agen…
CORMO-RAN: Lossless Migration of xApps in O-RAN
Antonio Calagna, Stefano Maxenti, Leonardo Bonati +3
Open Radio Access Network (RAN) is a key paradigm to attain unprecedented flexibility of the RAN via disaggregation and Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based applications called xApps…
AutoRAN: Automated and Zero-Touch Open RAN Systems
Stefano Maxenti, Ravis Shirkhani, Maxime Elkael +4
[...] This paper presents AutoRAN, an automated, intent-driven framework for zero-touch provisioning of open, programmable cellular networks. Leveraging cloud-native principles, Au…
dApps: Enabling Real-Time AI-Based Open RAN Control
Andrea Lacava, Leonardo Bonati, Niloofar Mohamadi +7
Open Radio Access Networks (RANs) leverage disaggregated and programmable RAN functions and open interfaces to enable closed-loop, data-driven radio resource management. This is pe…
Driving Innovation in 6G Wireless Technologies: The OpenAirInterface Approach
Florian Kaltenberger, Tommaso Melodia, Irfan Ghauri +10
The development of 6G wireless technologies is rapidly advancing, with the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) entering the pre-standardization phase and aiming to deliver th…
TIMESAFE: Timing Interruption Monitoring and Security Assessment for Fronthaul Environments
Joshua Groen, Simone Di Valerio, Imtiaz Karim +9
5G and beyond cellular systems embrace the disaggregation of Radio Access Network (RAN) components, exemplified by the evolution of the fronthaul (FH) connection between cellular b…
ORANSlice: An Open-Source 5G Network Slicing Platform for O-RAN
Hai Cheng, Salvatore D'Oro, Rajeev Gangula +7
Network slicing allows Telecom Operators (TOs) to support service provisioning with diverse Service Level Agreements (SLAs). The combination of network slicing and Open Radio Acces…
Twinning Commercial Network Traces on Experimental Open RAN Platforms
Leonardo Bonati, Ravis Shirkhani, Claudio Fiandrino +4
While the availability of large datasets has been instrumental to advance fields like computer vision and natural language processing, this has not been the case in mobile networki…
Listen-While-Talking: Toward dApp-based Real-Time Spectrum Sharing in O-RAN
Rajeev Gangula, Andrea Lacava, Michele Polese +5
This demo paper presents a dApp-based real-time spectrum sharing scenario where a 5th generation (5G) base station implementing the NR stack adapts its transmission and reception s…
PandORA: Automated Design and Comprehensive Evaluation of Deep Reinforcement Learning Agents for Open RAN
Maria Tsampazi, Salvatore D'Oro, Michele Polese +5
The highly heterogeneous ecosystem of NextG wireless communication systems calls for novel networking paradigms where functionalities and operations can be dynamically and optimall…
X5G: An Open, Programmable, Multi-vendor, End-to-end, Private 5G O-RAN Testbed with NVIDIA ARC and OpenAirInterface
Davide Villa, Imran Khan, Florian Kaltenberger +11
As Fifth generation (5G) cellular systems transition to softwarized, programmable, and intelligent networks, it becomes fundamental to enable public and private 5G deployments that…
PACIFISTA: Conflict Evaluation and Management in Open RAN
Pietro Brach del Prever, Salvatore D'Oro, Leonardo Bonati +4
The O-RAN ALLIANCE is defining architectures, interfaces, operations, and security requirements for cellular networks based on Open Radio Access Network (RAN) principles. In this c…
Colosseum: The Open RAN Digital Twin
Michele Polese, Leonardo Bonati, Salvatore D'Oro +11
Recent years have witnessed the Open Radio Access Network (RAN) paradigm transforming the fundamental ways cellular systems are deployed, managed, and optimized. This shift is led…
Securing O-RAN Open Interfaces
Joshua Groen, Salvatore D'Oro, Utku Demir +5
The next generation of cellular networks will be characterized by openness, intelligence, virtualization, and distributed computing. The Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) framew…
ScalO-RAN: Energy-aware Network Intelligence Scaling in Open RAN
Stefano Maxenti, Salvatore D'Oro, Leonardo Bonati +3
Network virtualization, software-defined infrastructure, and orchestration are pivotal elements in contemporary networks, yielding new vectors for optimization and novel capabiliti…