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Design and Performance Evaluation of SEANet, a Software-defined Networking Platform for the Internet of Underwater Things
Deniz Unal, Sara Falleni, Kerem Enhos +3
This paper presents the design and performance evaluation of the SEANet platform, a software-defined acoustic modem designed for enhancing underwater networking and Internet of Und…
Sharing Spectrum and Services in the 7-24 GHz Upper Midband
Paolo Testolina, Michele Polese, Tommaso Melodia
The upper midband, spanning 7 to 24 GHz, strikes a good balance between large bandwidths and favorable propagation environments for future 6th Generation (6G) networks. Wireless ne…
Stitching the Spectrum: Semantic Spectrum Segmentation with Wideband Signal Stitching
Daniel Uvaydov, Milin Zhang, Clifton Paul Robinson +3
Spectrum has become an extremely scarce and congested resource. As a consequence, spectrum sensing enables the coexistence of different wireless technologies in shared spectrum ban…
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…
DeepSweep: Parallel and Scalable Spectrum Sensing via Convolutional Neural Networks
Clifton Paul Robinson, Daniel Uvaydov, Salvatore D'Oro +1
Spectrum sensing is an essential component of modern wireless networks as it offers a tool to characterize spectrum usage and better utilize it. Deep Learning (DL) has become one o…
DRL-based Latency-Aware Network Slicing in O-RAN with Time-Varying SLAs
Raoul Raftopoulos, Salvatore D'Oro, Tommaso Melodia +1
The Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) paradigm, and its reference architecture proposed by the O-RAN Alliance, is paving the way toward open, interoperable, observable and truly…
Empowering the 6G Cellular Architecture with Open RAN
Michele Polese, Mischa Dohler, Falko Dressler +4
Innovation and standardization in 5G have brought advancements to every facet of the cellular architecture. This ranges from the introduction of new frequency bands and signaling t…
5G-CT: Automated Deployment and Over-the-Air Testing of End-to-End Open Radio Access Networks
Leonardo Bonati, Michele Polese, Salvatore D'Oro +2
Deploying and testing cellular networks is a complex task due to the multitude of components involved -- from the core to the Radio Access Network (RAN) and User Equipment (UE) --…
EXPLORA: AI/ML EXPLainability for the Open RAN
Claudio Fiandrino, Leonardo Bonati, Salvatore D'Oro +3
The Open Radio Access Network (RAN) paradigm is transforming cellular networks into a system of disaggregated, virtualized, and software-based components. These self-optimize the n…
Demo: Intelligent Radar Detection in CBRS Band in the Colosseum Wireless Network Emulator
Davide Villa, Daniel Uvaydov, Leonardo Bonati +3
The ever-growing number of wireless communication devices and technologies demands spectrum-sharing techniques. Effective coexistence management is crucial to avoid harmful interfe…
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…
An Open RAN Framework for the Dynamic Control of 5G Service Level Agreements
Eugenio Moro, Michele Polese, Antonio Capone +1
The heterogeneity of use cases that next-generation wireless systems need to support calls for flexible and programmable networks that can autonomously adapt to the application req…
A Comparative Analysis of Deep Reinforcement Learning-based xApps in O-RAN
Maria Tsampazi, Salvatore D'Oro, Michele Polese +4
The highly heterogeneous ecosystem of Next Generation (NextG) wireless communication systems calls for novel networking paradigms where functionalities and operations can be dynami…
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…
Twinning Commercial Radio Waveforms in the Colosseum Wireless Network Emulator
Davide Villa, Daniel Uvaydov, Leonardo Bonati +3
Because of the ever-growing amount of wireless consumers, spectrum-sharing techniques have been increasingly common in the wireless ecosystem, with the main goal of avoiding harmfu…
ns-O-RAN: Simulating O-RAN 5G Systems in ns-3
Andrea Lacava, Matteo Bordin, Michele Polese +4
O-RAN is radically shifting how cellular networks are designed, deployed and optimized through network programmability, disaggregation, and virtualization. Specifically, RAN Intell…
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…
Colosseum as a Digital Twin: Bridging Real-World Experimentation and Wireless Network Emulation
Davide Villa, Miead Tehrani-Moayyed, Clifton Paul Robinson +4
Wireless network emulators are being increasingly used for developing and evaluating new solutions for Next Generation (NextG) wireless networks. However, the reliability of the so…
ESWORD: Implementation of Wireless Jamming Attacks in a Real-World Emulated Network
Clifton Paul Robinson, Leonardo Bonati, Tara Van Nieuwstadt +6
Wireless jamming attacks have plagued wireless communication systems and will continue to do so going forward with technological advances. These attacks fall under the category of…
Narrowband Interference Detection via Deep Learning
Clifton Paul Robinson, Daniel Uvaydov, Salvatore D'Oro +1
Due to the increased usage of spectrum caused by the exponential growth of wireless devices, detecting and avoiding interference has become an increasingly relevant problem to ensu…
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…
Programmable and Customized Intelligence for Traffic Steering in 5G Networks Using Open RAN Architectures
Andrea Lacava, Michele Polese, Rajarajan Sivaraj +6
5G and beyond mobile networks will support heterogeneous use cases at an unprecedented scale, thus demanding automated control and optimization of network functionalities customize…
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…
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…