CloudRIC demo: Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) Virtualization with Shared Heterogeneous Computing
Year: 2024
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Open and virtualized Radio Access Networks (vRANs) are breeding a new market with unprecedented opportunities. However, carrier-grade vRANs today are expensive and energy-hungry, as they rely on hardware accelerators (HAs) that are dedicated to individual distributed units (DUs). We demonstrate CloudRIC [17], a system that, powered by lightweight data-driven models, meets specific reliability targets while (i) coordinating access between DUs and heterogeneous computing infrastructure; and (ii) assisting DUs with compute-aware radio scheduling procedures. Using a user-friendly dashboard to control an experimental testbed remotely, we demonstrate that CloudRIC achieves comparable reliability performance to a DU-dedicated platform while offering up to 40x higher cost-efficiency and up to 6x higher energy efficiency when pooling resources for up to 70 DUs.
Language: English
Subfield: Computer Networks and Communications
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
Funder: European Commission
OpenAlex ID: W4405015101