The Open Radio Access Network (RAN) and its embodiment through the O-RAN Alliance
specifications are poised to revolutionize the telecom ecosystem. O-RAN promotes …

Traditional networking is hardware-based, having the control plane coupled with the data
plane. Software-Defined Networking (SDN), which has a logically centralized control plane …

Mobile network traffic is increasing and so is the energy consumption. The Radio Access
Network (RAN) part is responsible for the largest share of the mobile network energy …

Innovation and standardization in 5G have brought advancements to every facet of the
cellular architecture. This ranges from the introduction of new frequency bands and …

Digital Health is a new way for medicine to work together with computer engineering and
ICT to carry out tests and obtain reliable information about the health status of citizens in the …

With advancements of cloud technologies Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) emerged as
a remarkable edge-cloud technology to provide computing facilities to resource-restrained …

Due to the tightly-coupled hardware and software architecture of existing RAN systems and
their non-flexibility, disaggregation of software and hardware can bring many …

The evolution of network technologies has witnessed a paradigm shift toward open and
intelligent networks, with the Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) architecture emerging as …

The open radio access network (ORAN) aims to improve network efficiency by reducing
latency through the distributed unit (DU) and virtualization in the central unit (CU). However …

Abstract Digital Twins (DTs) have been proposed as digital replicas of physical entities (eg,
manufacturing equipment), which one can observe in real-time and interact with. Digital …