FlexRIC Tutorial: xApp Development
OAI Webinar Series Chapter 5
Abstract: Open RAN is emerging as a new paradigm to evolve modern Radio Access Networks (RANs) into a more vendor-agnostic, software, and intelligent ecosystem. To this end, the O-RAN initiative is drafting specifications to provide the means to embrace it. In this context, open-source high-quality implementations of the aforementioned drafts are of utmost importance to accelerate their adoption.
In this lecture, we will first present the latest features of FlexRIC, an open-source O-RAN nearRT-RIC, and its future direction. Following, we will present the minimal steps for developing an xApp. Lastly, a Q&A will be there to answer your questions.
This webinar was presented by:
Mikel Irazabal
Mikel obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, BarcelonaTech (UPC) in 2021 while participating as an Early Stage Researcher (ESR) in the European-funded Project Application-Aware User-Centric Programmable Architectures for 5G multi-tenant networks (5G-AuRA), an Innovative Training Network (ITN) of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA). He has been the main architect and contributor of FlexRIC, one of the most successful open-source O-RAN near Real-Time RAN Intelligent Controller (nearRT-RIC). He also co-founded the Barcelona C/C++ meetup, where he has given several talks. He is a Senior Software Software Engineer at the OpenAirInterface Alliance.
