OCUDU Ecosystem Developer Summit: Full Schedule

October 20-22 | Alexandria, Virgina
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8:00am EDT

Registration & Badge Pick-Up

Tuesday October 20, 2026 8:00am - 5:40pm EDT

Foyer

Tuesday October 20, 2026 8:00am - 5:40pm EDT
Foyer

Meals / Breaks / Special Events

9:00am EDT

Keynote: Welcome & Opening Remarks

Tuesday October 20, 2026 9:00am - 9:10am EDT

Boeing Auditorium

Tuesday October 20, 2026 9:00am - 9:10am EDT
Boeing Auditorium

Keynote Sessions

9:10am EDT

Keynote Sessions to be Announced

Tuesday October 20, 2026 9:10am - 11:00am EDT

Boeing Auditorium

Tuesday October 20, 2026 9:10am - 11:00am EDT
Boeing Auditorium

Keynote Sessions

10:30am EDT

Demo Presentations

Tuesday October 20, 2026 10:30am - 11:00am EDT

- Scaling OCUDU Deployment and Orchestration With O-RAN Based O-Cloud Best Practices - Chris Wheeler, Red Hat & Nils Fürste, SRS
- 5G LAB KIT: Using OCUDU for Training and Education - Tiago Alves, Allbesmart, Lda
- AI-Native RAN With OCUDU: An Open Research Testbed - Vipin Rathi, Ramanujan College, University of Delhi & Kriish Sharma, Ramanujan College
- AI-RAN DApps for OCUDU: What Runs Today and What's Still To Be Decided - Matt Pennybacker, DeepSig, Inc. & Tim O'Shea, DeepSig
- At-Scale, Real-World Physical AI for Precision Agriculture Using OCUDU and ARA - Taimoor Islam, Iowa State University
- Coordinated ISAC for UAV Detection on an OCUDU-Based Testbed - Chen Chen & Xuan Chen, George Mason University
- Dynamic Spectrum Sharing With an OCUDU-Based Open 5G RAN - Zachary Smith & Dominic Catena, ANDRO Computational Solutions; Stephanie Demers & Alex Lackpour, Peraton Labs
- Enabling DApps for OCUDU With the E3 Interface - Ravis Shirkhani, Northeastern University - Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems (INSI); Angelo Feraudo & Michele Polese, Northeastern University; Hai Cheng, zTouch Networks
- Knowing What Regressed: Run Comparison for the OCUDU Test Report - Craig Brennan, Ericsson Software Technology & John Keeney, Ericsson Software Technology
- Live Demonstration: OCUDU on Military-Grade Equipment - Caleb McKinney, Lockheed Martin
- MCP Enabled RAN Security Testing With RAN Tester UE - Charles Ueltschey, Mississippi State University
- RAN-Aware AI Task Offloading To MEC With WebAssembly and OCUDU - Alireza Ebrahimi Dorcheh, UniPhy Technologies / Clemson University & Fatemeh Afghah, Clemson University
- Real-Time Multi-Cell Channel Emulation for OCUDU-Based 5G Testbeds - Simeon Wuthier, National Institute of Standards and Technology & Fernando Cintron, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST
- Real-Time Sensing-Privacy Control for OCUDU at the PHY Layer - Xuan Chen, George Mason University
- Slice on Demand: Enabling Automated End-to-End Network Slicing as a Service in OCUDU - Rafael Lawisch, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos - Unisinos
- Time Sensitive Network Integration for OCUDU - Thanh Long Le, Singapore University of Technology and Design & Nguyen Thanh Tam, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)
- XFormer Assisted Multi-Site Scheduling With Inter-cell Coordination - Abdullah AL Safi, Commonwealth Cyber Initiative Virginia Tech and Softbank
- Hardening OCUDU With Automated O-RAN Security Testing - Wilfred Luiz, VIAVI Solutions
- EdgeRIC for Real-time AI-Driven Optimization and Control Over OCUDU - Srinivas Shakkottai, Texas A&M University ; Ushasi Ghosh, University of Califronia, San Diego; Woo-Hyun Ko, Bush Combat Development Complex, Texas A&M University System Offices
- Developing Trajectory-Aware Handover With OCUDU on POWDER: A Wireless Research Use Case Demo - Dustin Maas, University of Utah

Speakers

Fatemeh Afghah

McQueen Quattlebaum Dean's Professor, Clemson University

Fatemeh Afghah is McQueen Quattlebaum Dean’s Professor in the Department of ECE at Clemson University. She also holds a joint appointment at Savannah River National Laboratory.
She is the recipient of numerous honors, including the N²Women Star in Computer Networking and Communications (2025), 100 Brilliant and Inspiring Women in 6G™ List for 2026, the AFOSR Young Investigator Award (2019), the NSF CAREER Award (2020), and Best Paper Awards at IEEE Asilomar... Read More →

Tiago Alves

CTO, Allbesmart, Lda

Tiago Alves is CTO of Allbesmart, a Portuguese company building open-source 5G/6G platforms. He leads the development of open-source 5G network-in-a-box solutions used by universities, research labs, and industry for private 5G deployments, AI-RAN experimentation, and ISAC research... Read More →

Craig Brennan

Craig Brennan, Ericsson Software Technology

An open source Software Engineer working for Ericsson Software Technology based out of Athlone, Ireland working in the Open-RAN space.

Dominic Catena

Associate Scientist/Engineer, ANDRO Computational Solutions

Dominic Catena is an Associate Scientist at ANDRO Computational Solutions, where he develops and integrates open 5G RAN and dynamic spectrum sharing technologies. He earned a B.S. in Computer Science with a minor in Pure and Applied Mathematics from Stevens Institute of Technology... Read More →

Chen Chen

PhD Student, George Mason University

Chen Chen is a PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at George Mason University. His research focuses on O-RAN interoperability testing, open-source 5G testbeds, and integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), with an emphasis on experimental implementation and validation... Read More →

Xuan Chen

Ph.D Student, George Mason University

Xuan Chen is a PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at George Mason University, working in the Wireless Cyber Center under Prof. Kai Zeng. Her research focuses on wireless security and privacy, integrated sensing and communication, and software-defined radio prototy... Read More →

Hai Cheng

AI-RAN Software Engineer, zTouch Networks, zTouch Networks

Hai received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineer from Northeastern University in 2025. His research focus on Open RAN, NextG cellular networks, and AI/ML for wireless optimization. He is serving as an AI-RAN software engineer at zTouch Networks.

Fernando Cintron

Research Scientist, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Fernando J. Cintron is a NIST researcher specializing in the simulation and hardware deployment of 5G NR and next-generation wireless systems. He actively leads the development of NIST’s Open RAN testbeds, driving empirical validation of disaggregated architectures, closed-loop... Read More →

Alireza Ebrahimi Dorcheh

PhD Student, UniPhy Technologies / Clemson University

I'm a PhD researcher in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Clemson University’s IS-WIN Lab. My research focuses on AI-RAN, O-RAN, and experimental 5G/6G systems, with an emphasis on intelligent RAN control, edge computing, and AI task offloading. I work hands-on with open-source... Read More →

Angelo Feraudo

PhD, Northeastern University

Angelo Feraudo is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems (INSI) at Northeastern University, Boston. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Bologna in April 2025, and continued there as a postdoctoral researcher until November 2025... Read More →

Taimoor Islam

Research Assistant Professor, Iowa State University

Taimoor Ul Islam is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a senior member of the Center for Wireless, Communities and Innovation (WiCI) at Iowa State University, where he also earned his Ph.D. Before joining WiCI, he spent six... Read More →

John Keeney

Dr, Ericsson Software Technology

I am a software engineer, researcher and team leader at Ericsson Software Technology (EST) in Ireland.
I focus on open-source software development in the Telecom Network Management domain - specializing in development for Open-RAN.

Woo-Hyun Ko

Senior Research Engineer, Bush Combat Development Complex, Texas A&M University System Offices

Woo-Hyun Ko received the B.S. degree in electrical electronics engineering from Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea in 2005 and the M.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Seoul National University, Seoul Korea in 2007. He earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at... Read More →

Rafael Lawisch

Graduate Researcher, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos - Unisinos

Rafael Lawisch is a software engineer and graduate researcher pursuing an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering at Unisinos. His research focuses on 5G Open RAN, network slicing, and automation, with practical work on OCUDU and O-RAN architectures. He has over a decade of experience in... Read More →

Thanh Long Le

PhD Student, Singapore University of Technology and Design

Le Thanh Long is a PhD student at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, working on 5G/6G radio access networks, and network optimization. Prior to his PhD, he worked as a Network Engineer at SUTD's Future Communications Connectivity Lab, where he developed and integrated... Read More →

Wilfred Luiz

Staff Security Engineer, Security SME, VIAVI Solutions

Wilfred Luiz is a Staff Security Engineer at VIAVI Solutions focused on 5G and Open RAN security, standards-based validation, and security automation. His work includes O-RAN security testing, cloud-native telecom environments, vulnerability management, and building repeatable automated... Read More →

Dustin Maas

Senior Researcher, University of Utah

Dustin Maas is a senior researcher in the Flux Research Group at University of Utah, where he works on a variety of problems related to wireless networks, including physical-layer security, spectrum sharing, O-RAN, 5G/NextG, and systems design.

Caleb McKinney

Advanced Comms Integration Engineer, Lockheed Martin

Caleb McKinney is a Senior Integration Engineer within Lockheed Martin's eTech Advanced Communications department, where he specializes in next-generation tactical communications systems. His work focuses on deploying 5G software stacks and Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET) radios on... Read More →

Tim O'Shea

CTO, DeepSig

Dr. Tim O'Shea is the CTO at DeepSig Inc where he is leading AI-RAN and Wireless Machine Learning efforts including software R&D. He is an IEEE Fellow and also leading efforts with AI-RAN for OCUDU, AI-RAN Alliance, FCC-TAC, 3GPP RAN1, and IEEE MLC ETI.

Matt Pennybacker

OCUDU Technical Lead, DeepSig, Inc.

Matt Pennybacker is the technical lead for OCUDU at DeepSig, where he guides development of AI-RAN algorithms and interfaces in the PHY and MAC, and has helped launch the HWACCEL and AI-RAN working groups. Before that, he was the principal engineer for DeepSig's OmniSIG software... Read More →

Michele Polese

INSI Technical Director, Northeastern University

Michele Polese is a Research Assistant Professor at Northeastern University and the Technical Director of the Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems at Northeastern. He is also the chair for the AI-and-RAN working group of the AI-RAN Alliance and a co-founder at zTouch Networks... Read More →

Vipin Rathi

Assistant Professor, Ramanujan College, University of Delhi

Vipin Rathi is an Assistant Professor at the University of Delhi. He was Vice-Chair and Individual Board of Directors at OpenInfra Foundation. He is the Chairperson of Linux Foundation Hyperledger Telecom SIG. He is Vice President of the Emerging Open Tech Foundation. He is the organizer... Read More →

Abdullah AL Safi

Mr, Commonwealth Cyber Initiative Virginia Tech and Softbank

Abdullah Al Safi is a Ph.D. student in ECE at Virginia Tech, with research interest in next-generation wireless communication systems. He earned his MS in ECE from Texas State University, where his thesis focused on dynamic Target Wake Time scheduling for improving energy efficiency... Read More →

Srinivas Shakkottai

Professor, Texas A&M University

Srinivas Shakkottai is the Debbie and Dennis Segers ’75 Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, with a courtesy appointment in Computer Science and Engineering. He received his PhD from the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign and was a postdoctoral... Read More →

Ravis Shirkhani

Ph.D. Candidate, Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems, Northeastern University, Northeastern university - Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems (INSI)

Ravis Shirkhani is a Ph.D. candidate at Northeastern University's Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems, advised by Prof. Tommaso Melodia. Her research focuses on 5G and next-generation cellular networks, with an emphasis on Open RAN. Her work spans automated testing and analysis... Read More →

Zachary Smith

Associate Scientist/Engineer, ANDRO Computational Solutions

Zachary Smith is an associate Scientist/Engineer at ANDRO Computational Solutions working on 5G RAN. He graduated with a M.S. in Computer Science from SUNY Polytechnic Institute and a B.E. in Computer Engineering from SUNY Stony Brook.

Srinivas Sriram

Senior Manager, VALOR Lab, Viavi Solutions

Srinivas Sriram has spent over two decades in RF and wireless engineering — from RF design through technical lead and solutions architect roles at companies including Meta and CableLabs, and now Senior Manager at VIAVI's VALOR Lab. There he leads independent test and evaluation... Read More →

Nguyen Thanh Tam

Research Engineer, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)

Research Engineer at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). His work focuses on OCUDU integration, OCUDU deployment, O-RAN testing, and field validation of 5G systems. He has been actively involved in integrating OCUDU with commercial O-RUs, O-RAN SMO, Non-RT RIC... Read More →

Charles Ueltschey

Graduate Research Assistant, Mississippi State University

Charles Ueltschey is a Graduate Research Assistant working with Dr. Vuk Marojevic at Mississippi State University. He has continued his multi-year work with the lab from his undergraduate research. His work focuses on improving efficiency, ease of use and reproducibility of 5G protocol... Read More →

Chris Wheeler

Principal Systems Engineer, Telco Emerging Communities Engineering, Red Hat

Hailing from Seattle, I am passionate about Linux, open source, and all things cloudy.

Simeon Wuthier

Postdoctoral Research Associate, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Simeon Wuthier, Ph.D., is a computer science postdoc at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where his work focuses on 5G/6G networks, O-RAN systems, and post-quantum cryptography. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, where he... Read More →

Tuesday October 20, 2026 10:30am - 11:00am EDT

Demo Presentations

11:00am EDT

Coffee Break

Tuesday October 20, 2026 11:00am - 11:30am EDT

Foyer

Tuesday October 20, 2026 11:00am - 11:30am EDT
Foyer

Meals / Breaks / Special Events

11:30am EDT

Update on the PHY and Roadmap - Xavier Arteaga, Software Radio Systems

Tuesday October 20, 2026 11:30am - 12:00pm EDT

Boeing Auditorium

This session reviews recently implemented physical layer (PHY) features, including extended downlink MIMO and TTI bundling.

I will present the key engineering challenges encountered during development and the practical solutions we deployed to overcome them.

The talk concludes with a forward-looking overview of upcoming PHY enhancements, outlining anticipated implementation hurdles and our proposed technical roadmap.

Speakers

Xavier Arteaga

Staff Engineer, Software Radio Systems

Xavier Arteaga specializes in wireless communications and software-defined radio (SDR). With over 10 years of experience in physical layer development, he currently leads the physical layer development at Software Radio Systems designing 5G NR solutions that comply with 3GPP, Open... Read More →

Tuesday October 20, 2026 11:30am - 12:00pm EDT
Boeing Auditorium

Breakout Sessions

12:00pm EDT

OCUDU on AMD-Based Hardware Platforms: EPYC Performance, GPU Acceleration - Neerav Parikh, AMD

Tuesday October 20, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm EDT

Boeing Auditorium

This technical talk presents AMD’s work running and optimizing the OCUDU software stack on AMD EPYC-based hardware platforms. It will cover benchmark methodology, CPU performance characterization, software and library optimization opportunities, and a forward-looking proposal for an AMD GPU acceleration backend for selected OCUDU processing paths.

Speakers

Neerav Parikh

Fellow Software System Design Engineer, AMD

Neerav Parikh is a Fellow Software System Design Engineer at AMD focused on communications infrastructure, networking, storage, HPC, AI infrastructure, and performance engineering for AMD-based platforms. His work spans AMD EPYC CPU enablement, infrastructure software stacks, open-source... Read More →

Tuesday October 20, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm EDT
Boeing Auditorium

Breakout Sessions

12:30pm EDT

Configuration Schema for OCUDU Apps - Franciszek Maroszek, Software Radio Systems

Tuesday October 20, 2026 12:30pm - 1:00pm EDT

Boeing Auditorium

Configuration schema is a recent addition to the OCUDU codebase that provides a standardized description of the apps configuration in the JSON Schema format – generated directly by the apps themselves, so it’s always up-to-date. This allows for other tools to interpret, process and interact with the OCUDU configuration in a deterministic and repeatable manner.

This session explains how OCUDU apps handle its configuration, discusses the technical challenges that still remain and also shows the benefits unlocked with OCUDU configuration schema:
- external configuration validation with standard off-the-shelf tools,
- configuration auto-completion,
- up-to-date documentation generation,
- new tools for config conversions,
- better hints for AI tools,
and many others.

The session is presented by the developer of the schema generation code and may contain some technical parts – however, OCUDU users who don’t interact with the code directly can still benefit and learn about the new tooling provided.

Speakers

Franciszek Maroszek

Software Engineer, Software Radio Systems

Software engineer with 10 years of experience in 4G LTE and 5G NR cellular networks, since 2025 working for Software Radio Systems and developing OCUDU. Co-founder of Hackerspace Wrocław and open-source software enthusiast.

Tuesday October 20, 2026 12:30pm - 1:00pm EDT
Boeing Auditorium

Breakout Sessions

1:00pm EDT

Demo Presentations

Tuesday October 20, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT

Speakers

Fatemeh Afghah

McQueen Quattlebaum Dean's Professor, Clemson University

Tiago Alves

CTO, Allbesmart, Lda

Craig Brennan

Craig Brennan, Ericsson Software Technology

An open source Software Engineer working for Ericsson Software Technology based out of Athlone, Ireland working in the Open-RAN space.

Dominic Catena

Associate Scientist/Engineer, ANDRO Computational Solutions

Chen Chen

PhD Student, George Mason University

Xuan Chen

Ph.D Student, George Mason University

Hai Cheng

AI-RAN Software Engineer, zTouch Networks, zTouch Networks

Fernando Cintron

Research Scientist, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Alireza Ebrahimi Dorcheh

PhD Student, UniPhy Technologies / Clemson University

Angelo Feraudo

PhD, Northeastern University

Taimoor Islam

Research Assistant Professor, Iowa State University

John Keeney

Dr, Ericsson Software Technology

Woo-Hyun Ko

Senior Research Engineer, Bush Combat Development Complex, Texas A&M University System Offices

Rafael Lawisch

Graduate Researcher, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos - Unisinos

Thanh Long Le

PhD Student, Singapore University of Technology and Design

Wilfred Luiz

Staff Security Engineer, Security SME, VIAVI Solutions

Dustin Maas

Senior Researcher, University of Utah

Caleb McKinney

Advanced Comms Integration Engineer, Lockheed Martin

Tim O'Shea

CTO, DeepSig

Matt Pennybacker

OCUDU Technical Lead, DeepSig, Inc.

Michele Polese

INSI Technical Director, Northeastern University

Vipin Rathi

Assistant Professor, Ramanujan College, University of Delhi

Abdullah AL Safi

Mr, Commonwealth Cyber Initiative Virginia Tech and Softbank

Srinivas Shakkottai

Professor, Texas A&M University

Ravis Shirkhani

Ph.D. Candidate, Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems, Northeastern University, Northeastern university - Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems (INSI)

Zachary Smith

Associate Scientist/Engineer, ANDRO Computational Solutions

Srinivas Sriram

Senior Manager, VALOR Lab, Viavi Solutions

Nguyen Thanh Tam

Research Engineer, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)

Charles Ueltschey

Graduate Research Assistant, Mississippi State University

Chris Wheeler

Principal Systems Engineer, Telco Emerging Communities Engineering, Red Hat

Hailing from Seattle, I am passionate about Linux, open source, and all things cloudy.

Simeon Wuthier

Postdoctoral Research Associate, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Tuesday October 20, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT

Demo Presentations

1:00pm EDT

Lunch (Provided Onsite for Registered Attendees)

Tuesday October 20, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT

Foyer

Tuesday October 20, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
Foyer

Meals / Breaks / Special Events

1:00pm EDT

Poster Presentations

Tuesday October 20, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT

- An Ns-3 Digital Twin Platform for OCUDU-Based ISAC Networks - Mohammad Reza Fasihi, George Mason University
- Designing a Performance Test Bed for Detailed Hotspot Analysis of Commercial Servers Using VTUNE - Moojan Kamalzadeh, Linqi Xiao
- Hardening OCUDU for the Field: Automated Deployment, Timing Compliance, and Autonomous Fault Recover - Narayana Indukuri, Selvaganesan Murugesan

Speakers

Mohammad Reza Fasihi

Wireless Researcher, George Mason University

Mohammad Reza Fasihi is a PhD candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering at George Mason University and an IEEE Senior Member. His research focuses on 5G/6G wireless networks, integrated sensing and communications (ISAC), digital twins, O-RAN, and machine learning for intelligent... Read More →

Moojan Kamalzadeh

Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Texas at Dallas

Moojan Kamalzadeh is a Ph.D. candidate in Electrical Engineering at The University of Texas at Dallas and a researcher in the OpenLab. Her research focuses on Open RAN, software-defined optical networking, cloud-native 5G systems, and performance characterization of virtualized RAN... Read More →

Narayana Indukuri

Consultant Software Technologist, Dell Technologies

Narayana Indukuri is a systems engineer specializing in O-RAN integration and 5G transport timing. He has led efforts to harden the OCUDU community stack for field deployment, including designing a SCF FAPI-based abstraction layer between the O-DU MAC and High-PHY. His experience... Read More →

Tuesday October 20, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT

Poster Presentations

2:00pm EDT

Working Vs. Deployable: Building a Downstream Distribution on OCUDU - Michael Chiaramonte & Terence Li, Cognitive Network Solutions

Tuesday October 20, 2026 2:00pm - 2:30pm EDT

Boeing Auditorium

OCUDU gives you a working CU/DU. It does not give you something you can deploy, operate, and hand to someone else. Those are different problems, and the second is not solved by hardening the first.

This is a report from the integrator's side of that line. Building a downstream distribution, we found the missing pieces fall mostly into two classes: runtime configuration/management, and deployment/integration.

We will take examples from each and show what we changed in the codebase and why they are necessary for productizing OCUDU. Examples include runtime command surfaces for parameters that could only be set at startup, a cell-safe shutdown mechanism that is a necessity for operators when managing a live system, a v1 of an M-plane client to simplify RU integration, and a look at how CNS uses these new contributions to integrate AI-native intelligence with the OCUDU stack.

Speakers

Michael Chiaramonte

Co-Founder & CTO, Cognitive Network Solutions Inc

Michael Chiaramonte is an RF engineer turned software developer who spent six years deploying and optimizing dense urban 5G networks. He co-founded CNS in 2024, convinced the RAN software ecosystem had real gaps in intelligent optimization and self-orchestration. He is now building... Read More →

Terence Li

Co-founder and CEO, Cognitive Network Solutions

Terence spent two decades inside Tier 1 networks, from GSM to 5G, leading engineering teams through multiple generations of network evolution. Along the way he saw firsthand the limitations that external intelligence approaches can never overcome.

Tuesday October 20, 2026 2:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
Boeing Auditorium

Breakout Sessions

2:55pm EDT

OpenWRT for RAN: Building an Opinionated, Deployable Open RAN Stack on OCUDU - Ilya Portnik, Dell Technologies

Tuesday October 20, 2026 2:55pm - 3:25pm EDT

Boeing Auditorium

OCUDU has earned the title “Linux kernel of RAN”: an open, carrier-grade CU/DU. But the Linux kernel alone never shipped a router. OpenWrt did – by turning the kernel into an opinionated, deployable appliance with configuration, lifecycle management, UI, packaging, upgrades, and extensibility.

OCUDU is at the same point. It provides the RAN core, but teams moving from lab to field still rebuild the same surrounding layers: SMO/orchestration, zero-touch O-RU onboarding, timing automation, multi-vendor radio profiles, upgrade/rollback, security/compliance, application infrastructure, and air-gapped packaging.

This talk proposes an “OpenWrt for RAN”: a community-maintained, batteries-included distribution around unmodified OCUDU that can be deployed as a ready-made appliance, while remaining open to extension and customization. Drawing on hands-on integration of upstream OCUDU with an open-source packet core and multi-vendor O-RUs, I will present a practical reference architecture and the minimum platform services needed to turn CU/DU software into a secure, compliant, field-deployable private 5G system.

Speakers

Ilya Portnik

Director, 5G Systems, Dell Technologies

Ilya Portnik is Director, 5G Systems at Dell Technologies’ Federal 5G organization, leading evaluation and development of next-generation wireless technologies, strategic innovation, and emerging opportunities for federal customers. With over 20 years in telecom, wireless networking... Read More →

Tuesday October 20, 2026 2:55pm - 3:25pm EDT
Boeing Auditorium

Breakout Sessions

3:25pm EDT

Scaling the OCUDU O1 Adapter for Multi-RU Support: From Single-RU Sidecar To Production-Grade Fleet - Vinay Revankar, Dell Technologies & Ved Prajapati, Dell Technologies

Tuesday October 20, 2026 3:25pm - 3:55pm EDT

Boeing Auditorium

The OCUDU O1 adapter today uses a 1:1 sidecar pattern: NETCONF server, O1 adapter, single monolithic gNB config file, full restart. No per-RU addressing, no differential config push, no RU identity abstraction. Any change disrupts all connected RUs — blocking production multi-RU deployments.
This talk presents Phase 1 Multi-RU enablement: six new modules within the existing K8s sidecar, without forking the core — Multi-Instance YANG Datastore (/ru-inventory/ru[id]/config), RU Registry for device identity and DU mapping, Config Router for 1:N NETCONF dispatch, Per-RU Config Generator for device-specific fragments, Reload Orchestrator for scoped per-cell restart, and Multi-O-FH Endpoints for independent fronthaul addressing.
The adapter transforms from a stateless single-target passthrough into a stateful N-target dispatcher — enabling SMO to address individual RUs via standard NETCONF. I will compare current vs. proposed call flows, detail seven key design changes, and outline the Phase 2 FCAPS roadmap covering fault, performance, security, and AI/ML-driven optimization.

Speakers

Vinay Revankar

Technical Staff, Software Engineering, Dell Technologies

Vinay Ramdas Revankar is Technical Staff, Software Engineering in 5G Systems at Dell Technologies’ Federal 5G organization. With approximately 20 years of experience across Layer 2 protocol development in LTE and 5G — spanning MAC scheduling, RLC, transport layers, and O-RAN fronthaul... Read More →

Ved Prajapati

Software Senior Principal Engineer, Dell Technologies

Ved Prajapati is a Software Senior Principal Engineer at Dell Technologies, where he oversees the architecture, design and development of the CU Control-Plane and User-Plane for Dell's 5G Open RAN portfolio. His 20+ years of career spans across the evolution from 2G, 4G LTE, 5G NR... Read More →

Tuesday October 20, 2026 3:25pm - 3:55pm EDT
Boeing Auditorium

Breakout Sessions

4:00pm EDT

Demo Presentations

Tuesday October 20, 2026 4:00pm - 4:30pm EDT

Speakers

Fatemeh Afghah

McQueen Quattlebaum Dean's Professor, Clemson University

Tiago Alves

CTO, Allbesmart, Lda

Craig Brennan

Craig Brennan, Ericsson Software Technology

An open source Software Engineer working for Ericsson Software Technology based out of Athlone, Ireland working in the Open-RAN space.

Dominic Catena

Associate Scientist/Engineer, ANDRO Computational Solutions

Chen Chen

PhD Student, George Mason University

Xuan Chen

Ph.D Student, George Mason University

Hai Cheng

AI-RAN Software Engineer, zTouch Networks, zTouch Networks

Fernando Cintron

Research Scientist, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Alireza Ebrahimi Dorcheh

PhD Student, UniPhy Technologies / Clemson University

Angelo Feraudo

PhD, Northeastern University

Taimoor Islam

Research Assistant Professor, Iowa State University

John Keeney

Dr, Ericsson Software Technology

Woo-Hyun Ko

Senior Research Engineer, Bush Combat Development Complex, Texas A&M University System Offices

Rafael Lawisch

Graduate Researcher, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos - Unisinos

Thanh Long Le

PhD Student, Singapore University of Technology and Design

Wilfred Luiz

Staff Security Engineer, Security SME, VIAVI Solutions

Dustin Maas

Senior Researcher, University of Utah

Caleb McKinney

Advanced Comms Integration Engineer, Lockheed Martin

Tim O'Shea

CTO, DeepSig

Matt Pennybacker

OCUDU Technical Lead, DeepSig, Inc.

Michele Polese

INSI Technical Director, Northeastern University

Vipin Rathi

Assistant Professor, Ramanujan College, University of Delhi

Abdullah AL Safi

Mr, Commonwealth Cyber Initiative Virginia Tech and Softbank

Srinivas Shakkottai

Professor, Texas A&M University

Ravis Shirkhani

Ph.D. Candidate, Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems, Northeastern University, Northeastern university - Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems (INSI)

Zachary Smith

Associate Scientist/Engineer, ANDRO Computational Solutions

Srinivas Sriram

Senior Manager, VALOR Lab, Viavi Solutions

Nguyen Thanh Tam

Research Engineer, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)

Charles Ueltschey

Graduate Research Assistant, Mississippi State University

Chris Wheeler

Principal Systems Engineer, Telco Emerging Communities Engineering, Red Hat

Hailing from Seattle, I am passionate about Linux, open source, and all things cloudy.

Simeon Wuthier

Postdoctoral Research Associate, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Tuesday October 20, 2026 4:00pm - 4:30pm EDT

Demo Presentations

4:00pm EDT

Coffee Break

Tuesday October 20, 2026 4:00pm - 4:30pm EDT

Foyer

Tuesday October 20, 2026 4:00pm - 4:30pm EDT
Foyer

Meals / Breaks / Special Events

4:30pm EDT

Panel Session: The Road Ahead for OCUDU (Panelists to be Announced)

Tuesday October 20, 2026 4:30pm - 5:30pm EDT

Boeing Auditorium

Tuesday October 20, 2026 4:30pm - 5:30pm EDT
Boeing Auditorium

Breakout Sessions

5:30pm EDT

Playing OCUDU Over Realistic Radio Channels — No Radios, Just a Consumer GPU Platform - Zhouyou Gu, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)

Tuesday October 20, 2026 5:30pm - 6:00pm EDT

Boeing Auditorium

What if every OCUDU developer — from a hobbyist or first-time contributor on a laptop to a researcher training AI for 6G networks — could test the stack over realistic radio conditions, without owning any RF hardware?

Today, OCUDU's ZMQ radio path is a perfect loopback: great for functional tests, but it never fades, never interferes, never moves. Real radio behaviour stays locked behind commercial channel emulators and lab testbeds most of the community can hardly touch.

ocudu-gpu-channel is an open-source (MIT) attempt to change that. It slots between OCUDU and srsRAN and replays standard 3GPP channel models — fading, mobility, interference — in real time on a gaming GPU, fast enough to keep up with the live stack (~180x faster than CPU on the heaviest standard profile).

When realistic radio conditions run on a graphics card a student already owns, the distance between curiosity and experiment collapses: a newcomer can watch a connection fight through fading on day one, and AI can learn from a living network instead of a recording. As radio networks move onto GPUs, this is ground the community can own — knowing how OCUDU behaves over the air before anyone touches the air.

Speakers

Zhouyou Gu

Research Assistant Professor, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)

Zhouyou (Charles) Gu is a Research Assistant Professor at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), working on agentic AI for AI-RAN and real-time programmable RAN architectures. He received his PhD from the University of Sydney in 2023 and builds open-source, deployment-oriented... Read More →

Tuesday October 20, 2026 5:30pm - 6:00pm EDT
Boeing Auditorium

Breakout Sessions

6:00pm EDT

Closing Remarks

Tuesday October 20, 2026 6:00pm - 6:15pm EDT

Boeing Auditorium

Tuesday October 20, 2026 6:00pm - 6:15pm EDT
Boeing Auditorium

Keynote Sessions

6:15pm EDT

Ecosystem Welcome Reception

Tuesday October 20, 2026 6:15pm - 7:30pm EDT

Foyer

Tuesday October 20, 2026 6:15pm - 7:30pm EDT
Foyer

Meals / Breaks / Special Events

6:15pm EDT

Demo Presentations

Tuesday October 20, 2026 6:15pm - 7:45pm EDT

Speakers

Demo Presentations