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September 28-30, 2020
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Monday, September 28 • 11:15am - 11:45am
The O-RAN SC RIC (RAN Intelligent Controller): xApp API, and the Northbound - A1, O1 - and Southbound Protocols towards eNB/gNB: E2AP, E2SM - Thoralf Czichy, Nokia & Matti Hiltunen, AT&T

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The O-RAN SC’s RIC (RAN Intelligent Controller) is an open-source container-based implementation of the RIC concept and protocol specifications as standardized by the O-RAN alliance. Its second half-yearly release is almost ready and targeted for June 2020.

This presentation will focuses on the capabilities added in the second release after giving an overview of the RIC. This release includes (1) significant changes when adapting the base E2AP implementation from pre-specification assumptions to the first version approved by the O-RAN alliance, (2) supporting newly O-RAN specified E2 SMs (service models) like the NI (network interface) SM and KPIMON SM providing E2 nodes, like a gNB, a way to report interface messages & KPIs, and to change E2 node behaviour via NI policies, (3) changes in the API to be used by RIC xApps, (4) support for the O-RAN O1 management interface, and (5) support for the O-RAN A1 policy steering interface between the management system and the RIC.
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Matti Hiltunen

Lead Inventive Scientist, AT&T
Matti has a 20 years experience in the telco industry as a researcher with focus on distributed and fault tolerant systems. He has been involved with the RIC project since its inception and has designed many of the RIC platform services. In O-RAN SC, Matti is the PTL for the RICAPP... Read More →
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Thoralf Czichy

Technical Lead, Nokia
Thoralf is an expert in telco platforms, with over 20 years of experience in building complex real-time systems. Recently, he has been the key contributor in RIC architecture work and he is the PTL of the near-realtime RIC open-source project in O-RAN SC.

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The O RAN SC RIC RAN Intelligent Controller xApp API and the Northbound A1 O1 and Southbound Protocols towards eNBgNB E2AP E pdf
Monday September 28, 2020 11:15am - 11:45am EDT
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