SLICES-SC Summer School
Place: Volos - Tsalapata Building
Open-RAN/Core/Edge Solutions for Cloud-Native Telco Experimental Platforms
This three-day school will take a deep-dive into some of the available open-software and hardware solutions for building experimental telco networks that can be used by researchers to develop innovations leading to 6G network architectures in initiatives such as SLICES-RI, PAWR, Fabric and Horizon Europe SNS JU. A key objective of the school is to highlight cloud-native tools leading to fully converged cloud and telecommunication infrastructures. We will cover initiatives including O-RAN, ONF Aether/SD-Fabric/SD-RAN, OpenAirInterface RAN and Core, Mosaic5G, Magma and related cloud-native frameworks based on Kubernetes. In addition, for newcomers to the 3GPP ecosystem, we will also provide a crash course on 3GPP networks and protocols. Current lecturers are from key players in the experimental wireless research community : Sorbonne Université, NITOS, EURECOM, INRIA, CNR, PAWR, FABRIC, ONF, …
Examples of seminars include:
• An overview of Cloud-native tools for Telco Networks (1h)
• Inside O-RAN E2, RIC and xAPPs (1h)
• ONF I : SD-Fabric (incl. P4 basics) and Aether (1.5h, incl. Lab session on INRIAs SOPHIA-NODE cluster)
• ONF II : SD-RAN and ONOS (1h)
• E2E OAI/FlexRIC deployment (1h incl. remote demo using EURECOM’s SOPHIA-NODE clusters)
• SDR tools for experimentation: An Overview of NI USRPs and their use in experimental platforms (1h)
• Service and Edge platforms and paradigms (1h)
• 3GPP 5G RAN architecture (3h, split over 3 days, including illustrations with OAI RAN)
• 3GPP 5G Core architecture (3h, split over 3 days, including illustrations with OAI 5GC)
HOURLY SCHEDULE
Day 1 – 19/7
- 12:00 – 12:15
- Welcome
- Thanasis Korakis, Univ. Of Thessaly
- 12:15 – 12:30
- Intruduction to SLICES and its activities
- Serge Fdida, Sorbonne Université
- 12:30 – 12:45
- Introduction to PAWR nodes towards 6G
- Manu Gosain, PAWR Office
- 12:45 – 13:45
- SD-RAN
- Rafael Vicente Rosa, Intel
- 13:45 – 14:45
- Lunch Break
- 14:45 – 15:45
- Inside O-RAN E2, RIC and xAPPs
- Navid Nikein, EURECOM
- 15:45 – 17:15
- Cloud native technologies and cloud based services development and management (including DevOps tools on cloud)
- Yuri Demchenko, Univ. of Amsterdam
Day 2 – 20/7
- 09:00 – 10:00
- E2E OAI/FlexRIC deployment (incl. remote demo using EURECOM’s SOPHIA-NODE clusters)
- Navid Nikein, EURECOM
- 10:00 – 11:00
- PAWR nodes
- Manu Gosain, PAWR Office
- 11:00 – 11:30
- Coffee Break
- 11:30 – 12:30
- SD-Core and Aether
- Rafael Vicente Rosa, Intel
- 12:30 – 13:30
- “Experiences from deploying the AETHER framework” (SU/UTH)
- Sorbonne Université /Univ. of Thessaly
- 13:00 – 14:30
- Lunch Break
- 14:30 – 15:30
- SDR tools for experimentation: And Overview of the use of NI USRPs and emerging O-RU
- Raymond Knopp, EURECOM
- 15:30 – 17:30
- 3GPP 5G Core architecture (including illustrations with OAI 5GC)
- Thien-Thinh Nguyen, EURECOM
- 17:30 – 23:00
- Social event by the beach side
Day 3 – 21/7
- 09:00 – 11:00
- SD-Fabric, K8S-infrastructure @ Sophia Node
- Damien Saucez, Inria
- 11:00 – 11:30
- Coffee Break
- 11:30 – 14:00
- 3GPP 5G RAN architecture (including illustrations with OAI RAN)
- Raymond Knopp, EURECOM
- 14:00 – 15:00
- Lunch Break
- 15:00 – 16:00
- Cloud Security and Compliance for cloud services development and assessment
- Yuri Demchenko, Univ. of Amsterdam
- 16:00 – 16:30
- Conclusions – Closing of the Summer School
- Serge Fdida, Sorbonne Université
Detailed Agenda: Draft Agenda
- Registration: free of charge
- Registration Link: https://forms.gle/j2Nmz6PusjRE2eiKA
