Open RAN (eBook, ePUB)

The Definitive Guide
Redaktion: Wong, Ian C.; Jana, Rittwik; Rajagopal, Sridhar; Chopra, Aditya

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Open RAN A comprehensive survey of Open RAN technology and its ecosystem In Open RAN: The Definitive Guide, a team of distinguished industry leaders deliver an authoritative guide to all four principles of the Open RAN vision: openness, virtualization, intelligence, and interoperability. Written by the industry experts currently defining the specifications, building the systems, and testing and deploying the networks, the book covers O-RAN architecture, the fronthaul interface, security, cloudification, virtualization, intelligence, certification, badging, and standardization. This critical reference on Open RAN explains how and why an open and disaggregated, intelligent, and fully virtualized network is the way networks should be designed and deployed moving forward. Readers will also find: * A thorough introduction from key industry players, including AT&T, Telefonica, Mavenir, VMWare, Google and VIAVI * Comprehensive explorations of Open X-Haul transport networks and other unique 5G capabilities * Practical discussions of the four pillars of O-RAN architecture: openness, virtualization, intelligence, and interoperability * Comprehensive treatments of how smaller vendors can introduce their own services and customize the network Perfect for engineers, product managers, and marketing professionals in the telecom industry, Open RAN: The Definitive Guide will also benefit graduate students, researchers, and engineers in government agencies with involvement in the wireless and telecom industries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: For Dummies
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781119886013
• Artikelnr.: 68885016

Autorenporträt

Ian C. Wong, PhD, is Director of RF and Wireless Architecture at VIAVI Solutions. He is co-chair of the Test and Integration Focus group in the O-RAN Alliance and a Senior Member of the IEEE. Aditya Chopra, PhD, is a communication systems engineer with over 10 years' experience in wireless standards and transceiver design. Sridhar Rajagopal, PhD, is a SVP and Senior Fellow at Mavenir Systems, where he leads customer engineering and radio integration for Mavenir's Open RAN products. He has co-invented around 50 issued US patents and is a senior member of IEEE. Rittwik Jana, PhD, is currently a Telco analytics and automation engineer at Google. He is an industry expert with over 25 years of experience in numerous wireless technologies and standards.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors xiii

Foreword xv

Preface xvii

About the Authors xix

Definitions / Acronyms xxi

1 The Evolution of RAN 1
Sameh M. Yamany

1.1 Introduction 1

1.2 RAN Architecture Evolution 4

1.2.1 The 2G RAN 5

1.2.2 The 3G RAN 6

1.2.3 The 4G/LTE RAN 6

1.2.4 The 5G RAN 9

1.3 The Case for Open RAN 11

1.4 6G and the Road Ahead 11

1.5 Conclusion 13

Bibliography 13

2 Open RAN Overview 14
Rittwik Jana

2.1 Introduction 14

2.1.1 What is Open RAN and Why is it Important? 17

2.1.2 How Does Open RAN Accelerate Innovation? 17

2.1.3 What are the major challenges that Open RAN can help to address? 18

2.2 Open RAN Architecture 18

2.3 Open RAN Cloudification and Virtualization 19

2.4 RAN Intelligence 20

2.5 Fronthaul Interface and Open Transport 20

2.6 Securing Open RAN 21

2.7 Open Source Software 21

2.8 RAN Automation and Deployment with CI/CD 22

2.9 Open RAN Testing 22

2.10 Industry Organizations 23

2.11 Conclusion 23

Bibliography 23

3 O-RAN Architecture Overview 24
Rajarajan Sivaraj and Sridhar Rajagopal

3.1 Introduction 24

3.1.1 General Description of O-RAN Functions 24

3.1.1.1 Centralized Unit - Control Plane and User Plane Functions (CU-CP and CU-UP) 26

3.1.1.2 Distributed Unit Function (DU) 26

3.1.1.3 Radio Unit Function (RU) 26

3.1.1.4 Evolved Node B (eNB) 27

3.1.2 RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) and Service Management and Orchestration (SMO) Functions 28

3.1.3 Interfaces 29

3.2 Near-RT RIC Architecture 30

3.2.1 Standard Functional Architecture Principles 30

3.2.2 E2 Interface Design Principles 32

3.2.3 xApp API Design Architecture 34

3.3 Non-RT RIC Architecture 37

3.3.1 Standard Functional Architecture Principles 38

3.3.2 A1 Interface Design Principles 38

3.3.3 R1 API Design Principles for rApps 41

3.4 SMO Architecture 47

3.4.1 Standard Functional Architecture Principles 47

3.4.2 O1 Interface Design Principles 48

3.4.3 Open M-Plane Fronthaul Design Principles 51

3.4.4 O2 Interface Design Principles 52

3.5 Other O-RAN Functions and Open Interfaces 54

3.5.1 O-RAN compliant Centralized Unit Control Plane (O-CU-CP) 54

3.5.1.1 Control Plane Procedures 54

3.5.1.2 Management Plane Procedures 54

3.5.2 O-CU-UP 54

3.5.2.1 Control Plane Procedures 55

3.5.2.2 User Plane Procedures 55

3.5.2.3 Management Plane Procedures 55

3.5.3 O-DU 55

3.5.3.1 Control Plane Procedures 55

3.5.3.2 User Plane Procedures 55

3.5.3.3 Management Plane Procedures 55

3.5.4 O-eNB 56

3.5.5 O-RU 56

3.6 Conclusion 57

Bibliography 57

4 Cloudification and Virtualization 59
Padma Sudarsan and Sridhar Rajagopal

4.1 Virtualization Trends 59

4.2 Openness and Disaggregation with vRAN 59

4.3 Cloud Deployment Scenarios 61

4.3.1 Private, Public, and Hybrid Cloud 61

4.3.2 Telco Features Required for "Any Cloud" Deployment 62

4.3.3 On Premise, Far Edge, Edge, and Central Deployments 63

4.3.4 Classical, Virtual Machines (VMs), Containers, and Hybrid Deployments 64

4.4 Unwinding the RAN Monolith 64

4.4.1 Adapting Cloud-Native Principles 66

4.4.2 Architec