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Farhad Mehran

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arXiv2026

Interoperability Assessment of Fronthaul and E2 Interfaces for Multi-Vendor Open RAN Systems

Open Radio Access Networks (RANs) aim to transform the existing wireless network architectures by adopting open interfaces, disaggregating and virtualising RAN components, and enabling dynamic control of the system via data-driven methods. To accelerate the development of interoperable RAN solutions, rigorous assessment of Open Fronthaul and E2 interfaces based on O-RAN Alliance Interoperability Testing (IOT) specifications plays a key role as the integration of these interfaces seems to be very challenging, e.g. due to the need for alignment of Fronthaul IOT profiles and unforeseen challenges for E2 interface integration as Near-Real-Time RAN Intelligent Controller (Near-RT RIC) is relatively a new component introduced within the RAN architecture. In this paper, selected parts of the latest findings and lessons learned from interoperability assessment of Open Fronthaul and E2 interfaces for 13 multi-vendor Open RAN systems deployed in SmartRAN Open Network Interoperability Centre (SONIC) Labs are presented.

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arXiv2017

BEP Enhancement for Semi-Femtocell MIMO Systems Employing SC-QICs and OSTBCs

In mobile cellular networks, it is estimated that more than 60% of voice and data services occur indoors. Therefore, cellular network operators have shown an unprecedented interest in research on femtocell systems from various aspects to extend the indoor wireless coverage for providing high-quality and high data-rate wireless multimedia services contents. In an effort for reducing the bit-error probabilities (BEPs) and also increasing bit/symbol capacity of bandwidth limited error-prone wireless channels in femtocell propagation areas, this paper presents the performance of a promising candidate technology designed based on the state-of-the-art techniques. The performance of powerful space-time turbo codes (STTCs) based on serial concatenation of quadratic interleaved codes (SC-QICs) with the optimal and also suboptimal decoding algorithms, in conjunction with orthogonal space-time block codes (OSTBCs) have been presented in this contribution for wireless multiple-input single-output (MISO), and multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) semi-femtocells.

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