Demo - Closer to cloud-RAN: RAN as a service

Nikaein, Navid; Knopp, Raymond; Gauthier, Lionel; Schiller, Eryk; Braun, Torsten; Pichon, Dominique; Bonnet, Christian; Kaltenberger, Florian; Nussbaum, Dominique
MOBICOM 2015, 21st Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (SIGMOBILE 2015 Demos), September 7-11, 2015, Paris, France

Commoditization and virtualization of wireless networks are changing the economics of mobile networks to help network providers (e.g., MNO, MVNO) move from proprietary and bespoke hardware and software platforms toward an open, cost-effective, and flexible
cellular ecosystem. In addition, rich and innovative local services can be efficiently created through cloudification by leveraging the existing infrastructure. In this work, we present RANaaS, which is a cloudified radio access network delivered as a service. RANaaS provides the service life-cycle of an on-demand, elastic, and pay as you go 3GPP RAN instantiated on top of the cloud infrastructure. We demonstrate an example of real-time cloudified LTE network deployment using the OpenAirInterface LTE implementation and OpenStack running on commodity hardware as well as the flexibility
and performance of the platform developed.

DOI
Type:
Conférence
City:
Paris
Date:
2015-09-07
Department:
Systèmes de Communication
Eurecom Ref:
4632
Copyright:
© ACM, 2015. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in MOBICOM 2015, 21st Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (SIGMOBILE 2015 Demos), September 7-11, 2015, Paris, France http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2789168.2789178

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