Demonstration of Cooperative Transport Interface over Open Source 7.2 split RAN and Virtualised Open PON Network
Networking and Internet Architecture
2025-03-24 v1
Authors:
Merim Dzaferagic
, Kevin O'Sullivan
, Bruce Richardson
, Brendan Ryan
, Niall Power
, Robin Giller
, Marco Ruffini
Abstract
We demonstrate end-to-end 5G Open RAN over PON using off-the-shelf open networking hardware and open source RAN software. The implementation of the Cooperative Transport Interface provides timely synchronisation of PON and RAN schedulers.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2503.17065,
title = {Demonstration of Cooperative Transport Interface over Open Source 7.2 split RAN and Virtualised Open PON Network},
author = {Merim Dzaferagic and Kevin O'Sullivan and Bruce Richardson and Brendan Ryan and Niall Power and Robin Giller and Marco Ruffini},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.17065},
year = {2025}
}
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