RitiRAN Workshop - co-located with VTC Fall 2024
First Workshop on Research and Innovation in Testing and Integration for Open Radio Access Networks (RitiRAN) - co-located with VTC Fall 2024
The program for the workshop includes 9 paper presentations, a keynote, and a panel.
Room: Oceanic B, Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center
- 09:00-09:45 Session 1: Keynote
- Eng Wei Koo, Keysight, Keysight Director of RAN Standards and Technology, O-RAN TIFG and MVP-C co-chair, reporting on the latest developments within O-RAN TIFG. Slides
- 09:45-10:30 Session 2: Energy (Chair: Tim O’Shea):
- POET: A Platform for O-RAN Energy Efficiency Testing
- N Shankaranarayanan, Rutgers University WINLAB; ZHUOHUAN LI, Ivan Seskar, Rutgers University; Prasanthi Maddala, Rutgers University WINLAB; Sarat Puthenpura, Alexandru Stancu, Open Networking Foundation; Anurag Agarwal, Cognizant
- Energy Saving and Traffic Steering Use Case and Testing by O-RAN RIC xApp/rApp Multi-vendor Interoperability Slides
- Arda Akman, Juniper Networks; Pablo Oliver, Vodafone; Michael Jones, Keysight Technologies; Peyman Tehrani, AirHop Communications; Marcin Hoffmann, Rimedo Labs; Jia Li, Keysight Technologies
- POET: A Platform for O-RAN Energy Efficiency Testing
- 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
- 11:00-12:10 Session 3: Systems for Open RAN Testing (Chair: Binbin Chen):
- Testing Open RAN in the Cloud (TORC)
- Sridhar Rajagopal, John Baker, Mavenir Systems; Ramu Akula, Amazon
- Open6G OTIC: A Blueprint for Programmable O-RAN and 3GPP Testing Infrastructure
- Gabriele Gemmi, Michele Polese, Pedram Johari, Stefano Maxenti, Northeastern University; Michael Seltser, Cerbo IO; Tommaso Melodia, Northeastern University
- Directed Testing of ORAN using a Partially Specified Declarative Digital Twin Slides
- Alan Gatherer, Chaitali Sengupta, Sudipta Sen, Jeff Reed, Cirrus360
- Testing Open RAN in the Cloud (TORC)
- 12:10-12:30 NTIA Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund Update
- Brian Gomez, NTIA
- 12:30-14:00 Lunch Break
- 14:00-15:30 Session 4: Testing Experiences (Chair: Alan Gatherer):
- Consistent and Repeatable Testing of mMIMO O-RU across labs: A Japan-Singapore Experience
- Nguyen Thanh Tam, Ngo Van Mao, Binbin Chen, Singapore University of Technology and Design; Mitsuhiro Kuchitsu, Rakuten Mobile, Inc.; Serena Wai, Seitaro Kawai, Kenya Suzuki, Eng Wei Koo, Keysight Technologies; Tony Q.S. Quek, Singapore University of Technology and Design
- How Critical is Site-Specific RAN Optimization? 5G Open-RAN Uplink Air Interface Performance Test and Optimization from Macro-Cell CIR Data
- Johnathan Corgan, Nitin Nair, Rajib Bhattacharjea, Wan Liu, DeepSig Inc.; Serhat Tadik, Georgia Institute of Technology; Tom Tsou, Timothy O’Shea, DeepSig Inc.
- Consistent and Repeatable Testing of O-RAN Distributed Unit (O-DU) across Continents
- Van Tuan Ngo, Ngo Van Mao, Binbin Chen, Singapore University of Technology and Design; Gabriele Gemmi, Eduardo Baena, Michele Polese, Tommaso Melodia, Northeastern University; William Chien, Synergy Design Tech; Tony Q.S. Quek, Singapore University of Technology and Design
- Soft Tester UE: A Novel Approach for Open RAN Security Testing
- Joshua Moore, Aly Sabri Abdalla, Charles Ueltschey, Vuk Marojevic, Mississippi State University
- Consistent and Repeatable Testing of mMIMO O-RU across labs: A Japan-Singapore Experience
- 15:30-16:15 Session 5: Panel:
- Panel on Open RAN testing and integration, with N. K. Shankaranarayanan, Rutgers University WINLAB; Alan Gatherer, Cirrus360; and Binbin Chen, Singapore University of Technology and Design.