The Blurring RAN

Publications

Conference Papers:

• Nikolaos Bartzoudis, José Rubio Fernández, David López-Bueno, Godfrey Kibalya and Angelos Antonopoulos, “Micro-orchestration of RAN functions accelerated in FPGA SoC devices”, to appear in the proceeding of the IEEE International Conference on 6G Networking (6GNet 2024), October 21-24, 2024, Paris, France.
• F. Khan et al., "QoS-Aware scheduling policies for Open Fronthaul transport networks," 2024 IEEE International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking (MeditCom), Madrid, Spain, 2024, pp. 335-340, doi: 10.1109/MeditCom61057.2024.10621072.
• Neco Villegas, Ana Larrañaga, Luis Diez, Katerina Koutlia, Sandra Lagén, and Ramón Agüero, "Extending QoS-aware scheduling in ns-3 5G-LENA: A Lyapunov based solution", In Proceedings of the 2024 Workshop on ns-3 (WNS3 '24).
• Katerina Koutlia, Sandra Lagen, and Biljana Bojovic. 2023. Enabling QoS Provisioning Support for Delay-Critical Traffic and Multi-Flow Handling in ns-3 5G-LENA. In Proceedings of the 2023 Workshop on ns-3 (WNS3 '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 45–51.
• J. Baranda, J. Mangues-Bafalluy, L. Vettori, R. Martínez and E. Zeydan, "Enabling the SLA Management of Federated Network Services through Scaling Operations," 2022 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), Rhodes, Greece, 2022, pp. 1-6.
• B. Bojovic, Z. Ali, and S. Lagen. ns-3 and 5G-LENA Extensions to Support Dual-Polarized MIMO. In Proceedings of the 2022 Workshop on ns-3 (WNS3 '22). Association for Computing Machinery, NY, USA, 1–9.
• B. Bojovic and S. Lagen. Enabling NGMN Mixed Traffic Models for ns-3. In Proceedings of the 2022 Workshop on ns-3 (WNS3 '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 127–134.

Journals:

• Katerina Koutlia, Sandra Lagén, "On the impact of Open RAN Fronthaul Control in scenarios with XR Traffic", Computer Networks, Volume 253, August 2024.
• Sergio Barrachina-Muñoz, Rasoul Nikbakht, Jorge Baranda, Miquel Payaró, Josep Mangues-Bafalluy, Panagiotis Kokkinos, Polyzois Soumplis, Aristotelis Kretsis, Emmanouel Varvarigos, "Deploying cloud-native experimental platforms for Zero Touch management 5G and beyond networks", in IET Networks,  July 2023.
• B. Bojović, S. Lagén, K. Koutlia, X. Zhang, P. Wang and L. Yu, "Enhancing 5G QoS Management for XR Traffic Through XR Loopback Mechanism," in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 41, no. 6, pp. 1772-1786, June 2023.
• Katerina Koutlia, Biljana Bojovic, Sandra Lagén, Xiaodi Zhang, Ping Wang, and Jimin Liu. 2023. System Analysis of QoS Schedulers for XR Traffic in 5G NR. Elsevier Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory 125 (2023), 102745. 
• S. Lagen, B. Bojovic, K. Koutlia, X. Zhang, P. Wang and Q. Qu, "QoS Management for XR Traffic in 5G NR: A Multi-Layer System View & End-to-End Evaluation," in IEEE Communications Magazine.
• R. Martínez, L. Vettori, J. Baranda, J. Mangues-Bafalluy, E. Zeydan and B. Bakhshi, "Resource Abstractions in NFV Management and Orchestration: Experimental Evaluation," in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 608-624, March 2023.
• S. Lagén, X. Gelabert, A. Hansson, M. Requena, L. Giupponi, "Fronthaul Compression Control for Shared Fronthaul Access Networks," in IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 60, no. 10, pp. 36-42, October 2022.
• K. Koutlia, B. Bojovic, Z. Ali, S. Lagén, Calibration of the 5G-LENA System Level Simulator in 3GPP Reference Scenarios, Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory 119 (2022), 102580.

Demo Papers:

• J.Baranda, A.Bel, S.Barrachina-Muñoz, M.Payaró, J.Mangues-Bafalluy, "Demo: On-demand Disaggregated Deployment of Cloud-Native Mobile Networks from Core to RAN", ACM 25th International Symposium on Theory, Algorithmic Foundations, and Protocol Design for Mobile Networks and Mobile Computing (ACM MobiHoc), October 14-17 2024, Athens, Greece.
• J.Baranda, A.Bel, S.Barrachina-Muñoz, M.Payaró, J.Mangues-Bafalluy, "Distributed Sequential Cloud-Native Deployment of an End-to-End 5G Network with O-RAN Functions", IEEE 15th International Conference on Network of the Future (IEEE NoF), October 02-04 2024, Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain.
• S. Barrachina-Muñoz, R. Nikbakht, A. Bel, J. Baranda, M. Payaró, J. Mangues-Bafalluy, "DEMO: On-Demand 5G/6G Edge Verticals via Third-Party UPF Selection and Cloud-Native Relocation", Conference 29th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), 26-29 June 2024, Paris, France
• J. Baranda, A. Galal, L. Vettori, A. Mpatziakas, A. Gentili, A. Sinanis, A. Yastrebova-Castillo, G. Gómez, S. Karageorgiou, A. Drosou, J. Scholliers, M. Payaró, J. Mangues-Bafalluy, "An AI/ML Proactive Network Service Relocation Approach for Multi-Admin Domain Scenarios", in IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium 6–10 May 2024, Seoul, South Korea.
• J. Baranda, S. Barrachina-Muñoz, R. Nikbakht, M. Payaró, J. Mangues-Bafalluy, “Disaggregating a 5G Non-Public Network via On-demand Cloud-Native UPF Deployments“, IEEE/IFIP 19th International Conference on Network and Service Management (IEEE/IFIP CNSM), 30 October-2 November 2023, Niagara Falls, Canada
• S. Barrachina-Muñoz, J. Baranda, M. Payaró and J. Mangues-Bafalluy, "Intent-Based Orchestration for Application Relocation in a 5G Cloud-native Platform," 2022 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN), Phoenix, AZ, USA, 2022, pp. 94-95.
• J. Baranda, L. Vettori, J. Mangues-Bafalluy, R. Martinez and E. Zeydan, "Demo: Automated Multi-Site E2E Orchestration of Hybrid Network Services Mixing PNF, VNF and CNFs," 2022 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), Rhodes, Greece, 2022, pp. 1-3.
• J. Baranda et al., ZSM-based Orchestration for Inter-Administrative Domain Cross-Border Vehicular Scenarios, IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (IEEE SECON 2022), 20-23 September 2022, virtual.

Presentations

• SaS/CTTC is WIDE OPEN. On Openness scales. Open SNS Workgroup Workshop, June 28, 2023.
• La visión del CTTC en ÚNICO I+D. Valencia 5G Day. 30/05/2022
• Utilizing LLMs for Understanding, Monitoring, and Control of 6G Networks, Rasoul Nikbakht and Albert Bell, NoF 2024 Tutorials, October 02-04, 2024 Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain

Workshops

• IEEE International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking, 8–11 July 2024 // Madrid, Spain
• "1st srsRAN Workshop". Arlington, USA  October 2023