Demo: A Disaggregated O-RAN Platform for Network Slice Deployment and Assurance
10 January 2022
The increasing popularity of programmable wireless networks has led to efforts by both industry as well as academia to redesign access networks based on the Open RAN concept. Along with the 3GPP, the O-RAN Alliance has emerged as a key stakeholder in defining standards for open softwarized networks through the O-RAN series of specifications, enabling a variety of novel use cases ranging from RAN sharing to enterprise wireless. To that end, this demonstration showcases our efforts relating to the design, development, and implementation of an O-RAN platform complete with a fully disaggregated radio access network and a near-real time network controller. Key highlights of this demo include O-RAN compliant network functions and interfaces based on purely open-source components, a new O-RAN service model to enable fine-grained network control, and novel statistics and configuration xApps supporting the proposed service model.
