11 papers
Agentic RDZ: Autonomous Zone Management with AI Agents and an FR3 Coexistence Use Case
Minh Dat Nguyen, Gabriele Gemmi, Tamerlan Aghayev +3
Radio Dynamic Zones (RDZs) allow wireless experiments to operate outside conventional spectrum regulations while continuously guaranteeing protection for incumbent users. Existing…
GENESIS: Harnessing AI Agents for Autonomous 6G RAN Synthesis, Research, and Testing
Tamerlan Aghayev, Maxime Elkael, Michele Polese +11
Cellular research and development (R&D) is throttled by six structural processes that each consume months of manual engineering work per iteration: (i) synthesizing new features fr…
A Techno-Economic Framework for Cost Modeling and Revenue Opportunities in Open and Programmable AI-RAN
Gabriele Gemmi, Michele Polese, Tommaso Melodia
The large-scale deployment of 5G networks has not delivered the expected return on investment for mobile network operators, raising concerns about the economic viability of future…
Joint Routing, Resource Allocation, and Energy Optimization for Integrated Access and Backhaul with Open RAN
Reshma Prasad, Maxime Elkael, Gabriele Gemmi +6
As networks evolve towards 6G, Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) must accommodate diverse requirements and at the same time manage rising energy consumption. Integrated Access and Ba…
Optimizing and Managing Wireless Backhaul for Resilient Next-Generation Cellular Networks
Gabriele Gemmi, Michele Polese, Tommaso Melodia +1
Next-generation wireless networks target high network availability, ubiquitous coverage, and extremely high data rates for mobile users. This requires exploring new frequency bands…
Consistent and Repeatable Testing of O-RAN Distributed Unit (O-DU) across Continents
Tuan V. Ngo, Mao V. Ngo, Binbin Chen +6
Open Radio Access Networks (O-RAN) are expected to revolutionize the telecommunications industry with benefits like cost reduction, vendor diversity, and improved network performan…
Open6G OTIC: A Blueprint for Programmable O-RAN and 3GPP Testing Infrastructure
Gabriele Gemmi, Michele Polese, Pedram Johari +3
Softwarized and programmable Radio Access Networks (RANs) come with virtualized and disaggregated components, increasing the supply chain robustness and the flexibility and dynamis…
ColosSUMO: Evaluating Cooperative Driving Applications with Colosseum
Gabriele Gemmi, Pedram Johari, Paolo Casari +3
The quest for safer and more efficient transportation through cooperative, connected and automated mobility (CCAM) calls for realistic performance analysis tools, especially with r…
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…
Joint Routing and Energy Optimization for Integrated Access and Backhaul with Open RAN
Gabriele Gemmi, Maxime Elkael, Michele Polese +3
Energy consumption represents a major part of the operating expenses of mobile network operators. With the densification foreseen with 5G and beyond, energy optimization has become…
Toward Open Integrated Access and Backhaul with O-RAN
Eugenio Moro, Gabriele Gemmi, Michele Polese +3
Millimeter wave (mmWave) communications has been recently standardized for use in the fifth generation (5G) of cellular networks, fulfilling the promise of multi-gigabit mobile thr…