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Artificial intelligence (AI)-native radio access networks (RANs) will serve vertical industries with stringent requirements: smart grids, autonomous vehicles, remote healthcare, industrial automation, etc. To achieve these requirements,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Osman Tugay Basaran , Falko Dressler

With the advent of 6G, Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) architectures are evolving to support intelligent, adaptive, and automated network orchestration. This paper proposes a novel Edge AI and Network Service Orchestration framework that…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Yun Tang , Udhaya Chandhar Srinivasan , Benjamin James Scott , Obumneme Umealor , Dennis Kevogo , Weisi Guo

Recently, the concept of open radio access network (O-RAN) has been proposed, which aims to adopt intelligence and openness in the next generation radio access networks (RAN). It provides standardized interfaces and the ability to host…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Han Zhang , Hao Zhou , Melike Erol-Kantarci

Open Radio Access Network (RAN) is a transformative paradigm that supports openness, interoperability, and intelligence, with the O-RAN architecture being the most recognized framework in academia and industry. In the context of Open RAN,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-24 Qiao Wang , Swarna Chetty , Ahmed Al-Tahmeesschi , Xuanyu Liang , Yi Chu , Hamed Ahmadi

Open Radio Access Networks (O-RAN) are transforming telecommunications by shifting from centralized to distributed architectures, promoting flexibility, interoperability, and innovation through open interfaces and multi-vendor environments.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Zaineh Abughazzah , Emna Baccour , Ahmed Refaey , Amr Mohamed , Mounir Hamdi

Inter-cell interference is a persistent issue in dense 5G deployments, especially in heterogeneous Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) environments where coordination between base stations is limited. This paper presents AIIM, an adaptive…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Samuel Reinders , Alireza Ebrahimi Dorcheh , Ryan Barker , Tolunay Seyfi , Fatemeh Afghah

The next generation of cellular networks will be characterized by softwarized, open, and disaggregated architectures exposing analytics and control knobs to enable network intelligence. How to realize this vision, however, is largely an…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Salvatore D'Oro , Leonardo Bonati , Michele Polese , Tommaso Melodia

The rapid evolution of communication networks towards 6G increasingly incorporates advanced AI-driven controls across various network segments to achieve intelligent, zero-touch operation. This paper proposes a comprehensive and modular…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Merim Dzaferagic , Marco Ruffini , Daniel Kilper

Conflict Mitigation (CM) in Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) is a topic that is gaining importance as commercial O-RAN deployments become more complex. Although research on CM is already covered in terms of simulated network scenarios, it…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Abida Sultana , Cezary Adamczyk , Mayukh Roy Chowdhury , Adrian Kliks , Aloizio Da Silva

The evolution of the future beyond-5G/6G networks towards a service-aware network is based on network slicing technology. With network slicing, communication service providers seek to meet all the requirements imposed by the verticals,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Abderrahime Filali , Boubakr Nour , Soumaya Cherkaoui , Abdellatif Kobbane

The transformation of 5G networks into software-defined, agile, intelligent and programmable architectures necessitates a paradigm shift in deployment strategies. To deliver superior performance and surpass traditional systems, public and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Amogh PC , Nagamuthu Vignesh , Pei Yiyang , Neelakantam Venkatarayalu , Pedro Henrique Amorim Rezende , Shyam Babu Mahato , Sumei Sun

The radio access network (RAN) connects the users to the core networks, where typically digitised radio over fiber (D-RoF) links are employed. The data rate of the RAN is limited by the hardware constraints of the D-RoF-based backhaul and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-30 Yichuan Li , Qijie Xie , Mohammed El-Hajjar , Lajos Hanzo

Today's radio access networks (RANs) are monolithic entities which often operate statically on a given set of parameters for the entirety of their operations. To implement realistic and effective spectrum sharing policies, RANs will need to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Luca Baldesi , Francesco Restuccia , Tommaso Melodia

Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) is considered as a major step in the evolution of next-generation cellular networks given its support for open interfaces and utilization of artificial intelligence (AI) into the deployment, operation, and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Naveen Naik Sapavath , Brian Kim , Kaushik Chowdhury , Vijay K Shah

Future 6G radio access networks (RANs) will be artificial intelligence (AI)-native: observed, reasoned about, and re-configured by autonomous agents cooperating across the cloud-edge continuum. We introduce MX-AI, the first end-to-end…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Ilias Chatzistefanidis , Andrea Leone , Ali Yaghoubian , Mikel Irazabal , Sehad Nassim , Lina Bariah , Merouane Debbah , Navid Nikaein

The fifth-generation of mobile radio technologies is expected to be agile, flexible, and scalable while provisioning ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (uRLLC), enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), and massive machine type…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Sourav Mondal , Marco Ruffini

5G and beyond cellular networks (NextG) will support the continuous execution of resource-expensive edge-assisted deep learning (DL) tasks. To this end, Radio Access Network (RAN) resources will need to be carefully "sliced" to satisfy…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Corrado Puligheddu , Jonathan Ashdown , Carla Fabiana Chiasserini , Francesco Restuccia

In mobile networks, Open Radio Access Network (ORAN) provides a framework for implementing network slicing that interacts with the resources at the lower layers. Both monitoring and Radio Access Network (RAN) control is feasible for both 4G…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Andreas Casparsen , Beatriz Soret , Jimmy Jessen Nielsen , Petar Popovski

Novel and cutting-edge use cases have arisen since the first deployments of the fifth generation of telecommunication networks (5G). There are plenty of well-though optimally design 5G simulators and emulators which allow telecommunication…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Diego Gonzalez Morin , ManuelJ. López Morales , Pablo Pérez , Ana García Armada Alvaro Villegas

Network softwarization has revolutionized the architecture of cellular wireless networks. State-of-the-art container based virtual radio access networks (vRAN) provide enormous flexibility and reduced life cycle management costs, but they…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Paris Carbone , Gyoergy Dan , James Gross , Bo Goeransson , Marina Petrova