A Survey on Open Radio Access Networks: Challenges, Research Directions, and Open Source Approaches
The open radio access network (RAN) aims to bring openness and intelligence to the traditional closed and proprietary RAN technology and offer flexibility, performance improvement, and cost-efficiency in the RAN’s deployment and operation. This paper provides a comprehensive survey of the Open RAN d...
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| author | Wilfrid Azariah Fransiscus Asisi Bimo Chih-Wei Lin Ray-Guang Cheng Navid Nikaein Rittwik Jana |
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| description | The open radio access network (RAN) aims to bring openness and intelligence to the traditional closed and proprietary RAN technology and offer flexibility, performance improvement, and cost-efficiency in the RAN’s deployment and operation. This paper provides a comprehensive survey of the Open RAN development. We briefly summarize the RAN evolution history and the state-of-the-art technologies applied to Open RAN. The Open RAN-related projects, activities, and standardization is then discussed. We then summarize the challenges and future research directions required to support the Open RAN. Finally, we discuss some solutions to tackle these issues from the open source perspective. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-e37f9291d575415cbaa2228ffbce07b42025-08-19T23:44:55ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202024-02-01243103810.3390/s24031038A Survey on Open Radio Access Networks: Challenges, Research Directions, and Open Source ApproachesWilfrid Azariah0Fransiscus Asisi Bimo1Chih-Wei Lin2Ray-Guang Cheng3Navid Nikaein4Rittwik Jana5Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, No. 43, Section 4, Keelung Rd, Da’an District, Taipei City 106335, TaiwanDepartment of Electronic and Computer Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, No. 43, Section 4, Keelung Rd, Da’an District, Taipei City 106335, TaiwanDepartment of Electronic and Computer Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, No. 43, Section 4, Keelung Rd, Da’an District, Taipei City 106335, TaiwanDepartment of Electronic and Computer Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, No. 43, Section 4, Keelung Rd, Da’an District, Taipei City 106335, TaiwanDepartment of Communication Systems, EURECOM, Campus SophiaTech, 450 Route des Chappes, 06410 Biot, FranceGoogle LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USAThe open radio access network (RAN) aims to bring openness and intelligence to the traditional closed and proprietary RAN technology and offer flexibility, performance improvement, and cost-efficiency in the RAN’s deployment and operation. This paper provides a comprehensive survey of the Open RAN development. We briefly summarize the RAN evolution history and the state-of-the-art technologies applied to Open RAN. The Open RAN-related projects, activities, and standardization is then discussed. We then summarize the challenges and future research directions required to support the Open RAN. Finally, we discuss some solutions to tackle these issues from the open source perspective.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/24/3/1038open RANO-RANopen source |
| spellingShingle | Wilfrid Azariah Fransiscus Asisi Bimo Chih-Wei Lin Ray-Guang Cheng Navid Nikaein Rittwik Jana A Survey on Open Radio Access Networks: Challenges, Research Directions, and Open Source Approaches open RAN O-RAN open source |
| title | A Survey on Open Radio Access Networks: Challenges, Research Directions, and Open Source Approaches |
| title_full | A Survey on Open Radio Access Networks: Challenges, Research Directions, and Open Source Approaches |
| title_fullStr | A Survey on Open Radio Access Networks: Challenges, Research Directions, and Open Source Approaches |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Survey on Open Radio Access Networks: Challenges, Research Directions, and Open Source Approaches |
| title_short | A Survey on Open Radio Access Networks: Challenges, Research Directions, and Open Source Approaches |
| title_sort | survey on open radio access networks challenges research directions and open source approaches |
| topic | open RAN O-RAN open source |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/24/3/1038 |
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