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open, intelligent & Disaggregated Ran Pet etr L é dl dl VP Ne VP Network Tria rials & In Integration Lab ab Sep Sept., ., 202 2020

TECHNICAL challenges IN 5G expansion Site regulations Fronthaul & bACKHAUL SERVICE DEPLOYMENT FLEXIBLITY Coverage ENERGY EFFICIENCY 2

O-RAN TOWARDS FLEXIBLE RAN Disaggregate Open Ecosystem Open Interfaces Decoupling HW/SW AI/ML native O&M Optimization Loop Sept. 2020 3 – ONF 5G Spotlight –

solution design ASPECTS O-RAN Open fronthaul adoption Decoupling O-RU from vBBU  SW/HW decoupling ONAP/O ONA /OSS framework rk HW assets / COTS servers decoupled from SW  applications (e.g. O-DU VNF) management Bring cloudification benefits into RAN  Independent management framework vO-CU vO-DU data (VNF) (VNF) RF processing High availability and fault recovery control CN N  PNF(s) sync. Cloud SW Closed loop automation  O-RU RU Suppo Su port v arious topology options vBB BBU Discover, deploy, and manage  Support of O2 intf.  Sept. 2020 4 – ONF 5G Spotlight –

DEPLOYMENT SCENARIOS & REQUIREMENTS Brownfield approach Performance & efficiency < < 30 Km Km Various topology options Sept. 2020 5 – ONF 5G Spotlight –

Towards a customer-centric NETWORKS Basic service differentiation exist, but the NW is optimized for General BW effic icie iency, , General “zero“ packet loss, General hi high use user dat ata rat ate, General low lat atency cy No “per user” visibility, awareness, control… Sept. 2020 6 – ONF 5G Spotlight –

…but future services will require better managed connectivity No “per user” visibility, awareness, control… Sept. 2020 7 – ONF 5G Spotlight –

INTRODUCING RAN Programmability E2E Flow ML Training ML Designer Host Non-RT RIC E2E use cases support (e.g. Traffic steering, QoE optimization), AI/ML Framework RIC C ML mode del A1 A1 and Non-RT RIC for poli policy cy man anagement, AI AI feedb dbac ack depl ploym yment nt A1 mod odel el tr training Near-RT RIC Enfor orci cing ng E2 feedb dbac ack/ E2 and Near-RT RIC for enha nhance ced RRM RRM down to near ar-RT RT measurements nts E2 E2 UE/session-level control, exec ecution of of A1 A1 poli polici cies, RRM RRM AI mode AI odel deployment & execution E1 E1 O-CU CU-CP CP O-CU CU-UP UP F1-C F1 O1 F1 F1-U O-DU DU Ope pen n Fron onthau aul O-RU RU Sept. 2020 8 – ONF 5G Spotlight –

O-RAN OTIC & TIP Community Lab berLIN World wide first joint OTIC & TIP CL Hosting current O-RAN plugfest Foster adoption of O-RAN specification Lower entry barrier to O-RAN components providers, Ecosystem incubation O-RAN components certification  Provide Open multi-operator interoperability testing & integration lab  Share infrastructure for testing and validation of open RAN solutions based on O-RAN  Perform interoperability testing of TIP & O-RAN internally developed components aligned with O-RAN Sept. 2020 9 – ONF 5G Spotlight –

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