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Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) is a major advancement in the telecommunications field, providing standardized interfaces that promote interoperability between different vendors' technologies, thereby enhancing network flexibility and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Lujia Liang , Lei Zhang

Despite the growing interest in low-altitude economy (LAE) applications, including UAV-based logistics and emergency response, fundamental challenges remain in orchestrating such missions over complex, signal-constrained environments. These…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-05 Aly Sabri Abdalla , Vuk Marojevic

Localization is increasingly becoming an integral component of wireless cellular networks. The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) based localization algorithms presents potential for enhancing localization…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Nada Bouknana , Mohsen Ahadi , Florian Kaltenberger , Robert Schmidt

The Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) aims to enable disaggregated, virtualized, programmable, and data-driven intelligent network with open interfaces to support various real-time and non-real-time applications for different classes of…

Openness and programmability in the O-RAN architecture enable closed-loop control of the Radio Access Network (RAN). Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven xApps, in the near-real-time RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC), can learn from network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Angelo Feraudo , Stefano Maxenti , Andrea Lacava , Leonardo Bonati , Paolo Bellavista , Michele Polese , Tommaso Melodia

Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) is an emerging paradigm, whereby virtualized network infrastructure elements from different vendors communicate via open, standardized interfaces. A key element therein is the RAN Intelligent Controller…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Jorge Martín-Pérez , Nuria Molner , Francesco Malandrino , Carlos Jesús Bernardos , Antonio de la Oliva , David Gomez-Barquero

Fifth-generation (5G) systems are increasingly studied as shared communication and computing infrastructure for connected vehicles, roadside edge platforms, and future unmanned-system applications. Yet results from simulators, host-OS…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Ryan Barker , Tolunay Seyfi , Alireza Ebrahimi Dorcheh , Julia Boone , Fatemeh Afghah , Joseph Boccuzzi

The highly heterogeneous ecosystem of Next Generation (NextG) wireless communication systems calls for novel networking paradigms where functionalities and operations can be dynamically and optimally reconfigured in real time to adapt to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Maria Tsampazi , Salvatore D'Oro , Michele Polese , Leonardo Bonati , Gwenael Poitau , Michael Healy , Tommaso Melodia

Open Radio Access Networks (RAN) aim to bring a paradigm shift to telecommunications industry, by enabling an open, intelligent, virtualized, and multi-vendor interoperable RAN ecosystem. At the center of this movement, O-RAN ALLIANCE…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Thanh-Tam Nguyen , Mao V. Ngo , Binbin Chen , Mitsuhiro Kuchitsu , Serena Wai , Seitaro Kawai , Kenya Suzuki , Eng Wei Koo , Tony Quek

Open Radio Access Network (RAN) is a key paradigm to attain unprecedented flexibility of the RAN via disaggregation and Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based applications called xApps. In dense areas with many active RAN nodes, compute…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Antonio Calagna , Stefano Maxenti , Leonardo Bonati , Salvatore D'Oro , Tommaso Melodia , Carla Fabiana Chiasserini

Open-Radio Access Network (O-RAN) has become an important paradigm for 5G and beyond radio access networks. This paper presents an xApp called xSlice for the Near-Real-Time (Near-RT) RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) of 5G O-RANs. xSlice is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-13 Peihao Yan , Jie Lu , Huacheng Zeng , Y. Thomas Hou

The Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) architecture enables the deployment of third-party applications on the RAN Intelligent Controllers (RICs). However, the operation of third-party applications in the Near Real-Time RIC (Near-RT RIC),…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Arshia Zolghadr , Joao F. Santos , Luiz A. DaSilva , Jacek Kibiłda

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

The Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) architecture is reshaping telecommunications by promoting openness, flexibility, and intelligent closed-loop optimization. By decoupling hardware and software and enabling multi-vendor deployments,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Joshua Moore , Aly Sabri Abdalla , Prabesh Khanal , Vuk Marojevic

Network slicing allows Telecom Operators (TOs) to support service provisioning with diverse Service Level Agreements (SLAs). The combination of network slicing and Open Radio Access Network (RAN) enables TOs to provide more customized…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Hai Cheng , Salvatore D'Oro , Rajeev Gangula , Sakthivel Velumani , Davide Villa , Leonardo Bonati , Michele Polese , Gabriel Arrobo , Christian Maciocco , Tommaso Melodia

The advent of Open Radio Access Networks (O-RAN) introduces modularity and flexibility into 5G deployments but also surfaces novel security challenges across disaggregated interfaces. This literature review synthesizes recent research…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Ryan Barker , Fatemeh Afghah

The vision of a smart wireless factory (SWF) demands highly flexible, low-latency, and reliable connectivity that goes beyond conventional wireless solutions. Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-empowered communications, when…

In recent years, the radio access network (RAN) domain has witnessed a sea change with increasing levels of virtualization and softwarization driven by emerging paradigms such as the Open RAN (O-RAN) movement. However, the fundamental…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Ahan Kak , Van-Quan Pham , Huu-Trung Thieu , Nakjung Choi

The emergence of 6G technology represents a significant advancement in wireless communications, providing unprecedented speed, extremely low latency, and pioneering applications. In light of this development, an important question arises:…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Sneihil Gopal , Aziz Kord , Richard A. Rouil

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