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most citedOpen, Programmable, and Virtualized 5G Networks: State-of-the-Art and the Road Ahead

256 citations · 493 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.NI2023★ 1 cited

An Open, Programmable, Multi-vendor 5G O-RAN Testbed with NVIDIA ARC and OpenAirInterface

Davide Villa, Imran Khan, Florian Kaltenberger +9

The transition of fifth generation (5G) cellular systems to softwarized, programmable, and intelligent networks depends on successfully enabling public and private 5G deployments t…

cs.NI2023★ 32 cited

NeutRAN: An Open RAN Neutral Host Architecture for Zero-Touch RAN and Spectrum Sharing

Leonardo Bonati, Michele Polese, Salvatore D'Oro +2

Obtaining access to exclusive spectrum, cell sites, Radio Access Network (RAN) equipment, and edge infrastructure imposes major capital expenses to mobile network operators. A neut…

cs.NI2022★ 5 cited

Intelligent Closed-loop RAN Control with xApps in OpenRAN Gym

Leonardo Bonati, Michele Polese, Salvatore D'Oro +2

Softwarization, programmable network control and the use of all-encompassing controllers acting at different timescales are heralded as the key drivers for the evolution to next-ge…

cs.NI2022★ 10 cited

CaST: A Toolchain for Creating and Characterizing Realistic Wireless Network Emulation Scenarios

Davide Villa, Miead Tehrani-Moayyed, Pedram Johari +2

Large-scale wireless testbeds are being increasingly used in developing and evaluating new solutions for next generation wireless networks. Among others, high-fidelity FPGA-based e…

cs.NI2022★ 73 cited

OpenRAN Gym: AI/ML Development, Data Collection, and Testing for O-RAN on PAWR Platforms

Leonardo Bonati, Michele Polese, Salvatore D'Oro +2

Open Radio Access Network (RAN) architectures will enable interoperability, openness and programmable data-driven control in next generation cellular networks. However, developing…

cs.NI2022★ 2 cited

OpenRAN Gym: An Open Toolbox for Data Collection and Experimentation with AI in O-RAN

Leonardo Bonati, Michele Polese, Salvatore D'Oro +2

Open Radio Access Network (RAN) architectures will enable interoperability, openness, and programmatic data-driven control in next generation cellular networks. However, developing…

cs.NI2022★ 22 cited

Understanding O-RAN: Architecture, Interfaces, Algorithms, Security, and Research Challenges

Michele Polese, Leonardo Bonati, Salvatore D'Oro +2

The Open Radio Access Network (RAN) and its embodiment through the O-RAN Alliance specifications are poised to revolutionize the telecom ecosystem. O-RAN promotes virtualized RANs…

cs.NI2022★ 2 cited

ColO-RAN: Developing Machine Learning-based xApps for Open RAN Closed-loop Control on Programmable Experimental Platforms

Michele Polese, Leonardo Bonati, Salvatore D'Oro +2

In spite of the new opportunities brought about by the Open RAN, advances in ML-based network automation have been slow, mainly because of the unavailability of large-scale dataset…

cs.NI2021★ 12 cited

What is A Wireless UAV? A Design Blueprint for 6G Flying Wireless Nodes

John Buczek, Lorenzo Bertizzolo, Stefano Basagni +1

Wireless Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) were introduced in the world of 4th generation networks (4G) as cellular users, and have attracted the interest of the wireless community e…

cs.NI2021

Colosseum: Large-Scale Wireless Experimentation Through Hardware-in-the-Loop Network Emulation

Leonardo Bonati, Pedram Johari, Michele Polese +16

Colosseum is an open-access and publicly-available large-scale wireless testbed for experimental research via virtualized and softwarized waveforms and protocol stacks on a fully p…

cs.NI2021★ 11 cited

SteaLTE: Private 5G Cellular Connectivity as a Service with Full-stack Wireless Steganography

Leonardo Bonati, Salvatore D'Oro, Francesco Restuccia +2

Fifth-generation (5G) systems will extensively employ radio access network (RAN) softwarization. This key innovation enables the instantiation of "virtual cellular networks" runnin…

cs.CR2021★ 11 cited

What is a Blockchain? A Definition to Clarify the Role of the Blockchain in the Internet of Things

Lorenzo Ghiro, Francesco Restuccia, Salvatore D'Oro +4

The use of the term blockchain is documented for disparate projects, from cryptocurrencies to applications for the Internet of Things (IoT), and many more. The concept of blockchai…

cs.NI2020★ 9 cited

Intelligence and Learning in O-RAN for Data-driven NextG Cellular Networks

Leonardo Bonati, Salvatore D'Oro, Michele Polese +2

Next Generation (NextG) cellular networks will be natively cloud-based and built upon programmable, virtualized, and disaggregated architectures. The separation of control function…

cs.NI2020★ 256 cited

Open, Programmable, and Virtualized 5G Networks: State-of-the-Art and the Road Ahead

Leonardo Bonati, Michele Polese, Salvatore D'Oro +2

Fifth generation (5G) cellular networks will serve a wide variety of heterogeneous use cases, including mobile broadband users, ultra-low latency services and massively dense conne…

cs.NI2020★ 47 cited

CellOS: Zero-touch Softwarized Open Cellular Networks

Leonardo Bonati, Salvatore D'Oro, Lorenzo Bertizzolo +4

Current cellular networks rely on closed and inflexible infrastructure tightly controlled by a handful of vendors. Their configuration requires vendor support and lengthy manual op…