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Pre-Emptive Conflict Detection Architecture for O-RAN Service Management and Orchestration

This paper proposes an extension to the O-RAN SMO architecture to incorporate a component that can predict when configuration changes are likely to degrade network performance.

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The evolution of telecommunications networks from closed to open architectures has led to the development of the Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) standard. O-RAN's Service Management and Orchestration (SMO) typically contains multiple autonomic management agents that simultaneously make configuration changes to optimize aspects of the network. Dealing with competing and conflicting configuration changes from these autonomic management agents remains a major issue. This paper proposes an extension to the O-RAN SMO architecture to incorporate a component that can predict when configuration changes are likely to degrade network performance.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10617647

Author/Speaker/Contributor

Joss Armstrong, Enda Fallon, Sheila Fallon

Event/Publication

IEEE

Date

13th August 2024