OCUDU Ecosystem Developer Summit: Full Schedule

October 20-22 | Alexandria, Virgina
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IMPORTANT NOTE: Timing of sessions and room locations are subject to change.

9:00am EDT

Keynote: Welcome & Opening Remarks

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

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

9:10am EDT

Keynote Sessions to be Announced

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

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

11:30am EDT

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

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

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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
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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

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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
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12:30pm EDT

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

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

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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
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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

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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
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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

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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
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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

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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
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4:30pm EDT

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

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

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

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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
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6:00pm EDT

Closing Remarks

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

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

8:45am EDT

Keynote: Opening Remarks

Wednesday October 21, 2026 8:45am - 8:50am EDT

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Wednesday October 21, 2026 8:45am - 8:50am EDT
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Keynote Sessions

8:50am EDT

Keynote Sessions to be Announced

Wednesday October 21, 2026 8:50am - 10:10am EDT

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Wednesday October 21, 2026 8:50am - 10:10am EDT
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Keynote Sessions

10:40am EDT

Evolving the OCUDU Retina Framework for End-to-End, Multi-Vendor Integration Testing - Justin Choquette, UNH Interoperability Labs & Tom Nadeau, WindRiver

Wednesday October 21, 2026 10:40am - 11:10am EDT

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As the OCUDU ecosystem matures, validating Open RAN performance requires shifting from isolated component testing to verifying end-to-end interoperability. The current Retina testing framework is limited by tight coupling to internal processes, restricting its ability to orchestrate external components like diverse 5G Core implementations and O-RU hardware.
This presentation, a collaborative effort between the UNH Interoperability Labs (UNH-IOL) and Wind River, proposes a strategic roadmap to evolve the Retina framework. We outline an architectural shift toward a modular, "building-block" approach where deployment of RAN components, Core networks, and physical radio units is decoupled from the test automation harness. By leveraging Ansible-driven orchestration to manage diverse deployment stacks, this extension enables vendor-neutral integration testing and allows common test scenarios to be shared between component and end-to-end testing. The session will review completed framework changes and our road map, while seeking community feedback to ensure the framework supports diverse infrastructures and open-source projects.

Speakers

Tom Nadeau

Chief Archiect Solutions, WindRiver

Tom is Chief Architect of Solutions and leads the Americas Presles Solutions organization, where he and his team help delight our customers with presales architecture and solutions.

Tom was most recently The Chief Technology Officer and Fellow at Spirent. There he worked across Spirent’s products including new and emerging technologies and products. Prior to Spirent, Tom directed the Networking and Telco Solutions teams at Redhat... Read More →

Justin Choquette

Wednesday October 21, 2026 10:40am - 11:10am EDT
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11:10am EDT

Benchmarking and Validating O-RUs on OCUDU: Lessons From a Vendor-Neutral APAC Validation Lab - Chi Yung (Jeff) Liu, Industrial Technology Research Institute, ITRI

Wednesday October 21, 2026 11:10am - 11:40am EDT

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As OCUDU matures into a carrier-grade open-source 5G stack, operators and integrators need vendor-neutral, reproducible evidence of how O-RU hardware behaves in a real OCUDU deployment—not just vendor-reported claims.

ITRI Lab, an OCUDU Lab partner in the APAC region, is building a neutral validation platform that benchmarks multiple RU architectures on OCUDU, using a methodology covering Open Fronthaul interoperability, throughput/latency KPIs, multi-UE scenarios, and long-duration testing—referenced where applicable against TIP baseline configurations.

This session covers the platform and methodology, selected multi-vendor observations, and a deep-dive validation case: an 8T8R Category B O-RU from LIONS Technology integrated with OCUDU, including Open Fronthaul behavior and beamforming performance. This APAC lab also validates contributions from Taiwan's broader Open RAN ecosystem—LIONS extending into CBRS-compliant PAL/GAA deployments, and G-Reigns on CU/DU integration—into OCUDU, with further cases to follow.

Attendees leave with a reusable framework for OCUDU RU validation, a reference against common baselines, and concrete multi-vendor benchmark results on OCUDU.

Speakers

Chi Yung (Jeff) Liu

Acting Deputy Manager, Industrial Technology Research Institute, ITRI

Jeff Liu leads ITRI Lab, an OCUDU Lab partner in the APAC region. With 17+ years of telecom and network engineering experience, he drives Open RAN and OCUDU ecosystem adoption across the region, leading multi-vendor RU validation, Open Fronthaul benchmarking, and integration work... Read More →

Wednesday October 21, 2026 11:10am - 11:40am EDT
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11:40am EDT

Hardening OCUDU: A Test-Fix-Retest Model for Open O-RAN Compliance - Srinivas Sriram, Viavi Solutions

Wednesday October 21, 2026 11:40am - 12:10pm EDT

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Problem: Open-source O-RAN software wants to become carrier-grade, but there's no agreed way to prove it got there. Coverage gets claimed, not verified. Scanners can under-rate severity. Code that works in simulation can fail against real hardware.

Solution: We play two roles: independent evaluator and remediation partner. We test and report what we find, then help fix it with the builders, and retest before calling anything resolved.

How It Works: Every test traces to a spec requirement. Coverage is tagged honestly, verified vs. not observable, not rounded up to "tested." Scanner severity is rechecked and escalated, never downgraded. Testing runs on real hardware, not simulation. Fixes get rerun and reverified.

Current Status: Over a hundred executions since early this year across functional, security, and fronthaul testing. Coverage accountability moved from two-thirds to nearly all of it. Our latest security run found real failures, published as-is, remediation underway.

Next Steps: This test bed isn't tied to one program. Once these gaps close, it extends to other open O-RAN components, deeper fronthaul coverage, and eventually 6G, a model the community can reuse.

Speakers

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 →

Wednesday October 21, 2026 11:40am - 12:10pm EDT
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1:10pm EDT

Validation of Multiple Commercial ORU; Nuances and Opportunities With OCUDU Configurations - Linqi Xiao & Moojan Kamalzadeh, The University of Texas at Dallas

Wednesday October 21, 2026 1:10pm - 1:40pm EDT

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A commercial O-RU leaves the factory unreachable, and the step that carries it to a first management session is not published. The OCUDU ecosystem already ships lab-grade pieces of that step, a Kea DHCPv4 service encoding Option 43 and an O1 adapter that accepts SSH call-home. Dorado will present what commercial multi-vendor hardware still takes: DHCPv6 with Option 17 for v6-only radios, CMPv2 enrollment with TLS call-home on top, one vendor profile per device, and G.8275.1 timing inside the chain.

Results cover connecting multiple commercial O-RUs to a complete end-to-end OCUDU in a captive environment. A minimum of three commercial O-RUs reach stable call-home with no human step after cabling, with executable O-RAN M-Plane conformance and security cases in Robot Framework as the CT stage. Work is ongoing and additional results may be discussed.

Speakers

Linqi Xiao

PhD Candidate, the University of Texas at Dallas

Linqi Xiao is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas at Dallas, in Prof. Andrea Fumagalli's OpNeAR Lab, which operates an accredited O-RAN Open Testing and Integration Centre. He works on M-Plane conformance and security testing of commercial O-RUs, Near-RT RIC xApps, and multi-vendor... 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 →

Wednesday October 21, 2026 1:10pm - 1:40pm EDT
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1:40pm EDT

From Lab To Field: Integrating OCUDU With Multi-Vendor O-RUs for Outdoor 5G Drone Deployments - Nguyen Thanh Tam, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)

Wednesday October 21, 2026 1:40pm - 2:10pm EDT

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OCUDU is emerging as a key open-source foundation for carrier-grade, research-oriented 5G. While most demos remain lab-based, real-world field trials are critical for understanding operational and interoperability challenges.
We present SUTD's OCUDU deployment journey, from multi-vendor O-RU interoperability testing (e.g., Sera Network, Metanoia-based, Compal, QCT, Pegatron) to a fully operational outdoor Open RAN system supporting 5G-connected drone communications.
Next, we share performance results from an outdoor Pegatron O-RU deployment at SUTD Drone Arena, using real-time drone connectivity tests to evaluate mobility, coverage, throughput, and robustness outdoors—a realistic assessment beyond controlled labs.
Finally, we demonstrate OCUDU's integration with the NeuroRAN's SMO/Non-RT RIC and Near-RT RIC via standardized O1/E2 interfaces. This enables AI-driven closed-loop optimization apps, including an Energy-Saving rApp and end-to-end Network-Slicing solution including Slice Resource Management-rApp and Network Slicing xApp.
We close with lessons learned, interoperability challenges, OCUDU roadmap recommendations, and opportunities to accelerate AI-native Open RAN adoption.

Speakers

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 →

Wednesday October 21, 2026 1:40pm - 2:10pm EDT
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2:10pm EDT

How Cohere Made OCUDU Deployment Ready for Achieving Spectral Efficiency - Prem Gopannan, Cohere Technologies

Wednesday October 21, 2026 2:10pm - 2:40pm EDT

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Cohere’s Universal Spectrum Multiplier (USM) product is designed as an adjunct to a gNB that performs channel analysis and codebook-free MU-MIMO scheduling based on continuous calibration of the transmission chain and measuring the geometric reciprocity of the channel itself. The USM connects to gNB via gRPC wrapping the E2SM-LLC API. We’ll start the session with an introduction to how the architectural building blocks of the USM, gRPC/API, and gNB function together to add spectral capacity. We will also be talking about how Cohere enabled MU-MIMO support in OCUDU stack.

Speakers

Prem Gopannan

Vice President of Product Architecture and Software Engineering, Cohere Technologies

Mr. Gopannan is an Intel Innovator and active evangelist of Microservices and Private 5G/Telco/Edge Cloud architectures. Prior to Cohere, Mr. Gopannan was the Head of Product Engineering at Lumina where he led 5G product strategy and product development. Before Lumina, he led Ericsson’s... Read More →

Wednesday October 21, 2026 2:10pm - 2:40pm EDT
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2:40pm EDT

DPDK-Based User-Plane Upgrade for OCUDU: Crypto Engine & N3/F1-U Transport Interfaces - Ved Prajapati, Dell Technologies & Vinay Revankar, Dell Technologies

Wednesday October 21, 2026 2:40pm - 3:10pm EDT

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OCUDU gives the Telecom industry a 3GPP and O-RAN compliant, open-source CU/DU stack with multiple Internal Splits and Open Fronthaul Split options. The OCUDU stack is built over a very capable Software architecture, which is easy to scale. But the user plane - specifically the Crypto engine and the N3/F1-U transport interfaces, still rely on general-purpose software primitives that are designed for limited throughput. The mbedTLS based Crypto processes one packet at a time with no session persistence and no batch processing. The N3 and F1-U use kernel UDP sockets with multiple memory copies, syscall overhead, and I/O interrupts. This results in throughput capping at 2–5 Gbps per core and limits the user-plane scalability.
Here is a 2-phase proposal to replace these bottlenecks with DPDK-based alternatives, while preserving existing implementations as fallback option.
Phase 1 - DPDK Crypto Engine. Replace the mbedTLS crypto path in PDCP with DPDK Cryptodev. Today, OCUDU’s security_engine_impl performs:
Phase 2 - DPDK-Based N3 & F1-U Transport (Evolution). Replace the kernel UDP socket interfaces for N3 (toward UPF) and F1-U (toward O-DU and inside O-DU) with DPDK poll-mode drivers.

Speakers

Ved Prajapati

Software Senior Principal Engineer, Dell Technologies

Vinay Revankar

Technical Staff, Software Engineering, Dell Technologies

Wednesday October 21, 2026 2:40pm - 3:10pm EDT
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3:40pm EDT

United States Marine Corps Expeditionary OCUDU Deployments - Lucas Vancina, United States Marine Corps & Andy Tran, Naval Information Warfare Center

Wednesday October 21, 2026 3:40pm - 4:10pm EDT

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In this technical and operational case study, the Marine Corps Tactical Systems Support Activity (MCTSSA) and Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Pacific Tactical Cellular Lab (TCL) will present how they deployed OCUDU to provide 5G at the tactical edge for expeditionary military operations. During a military exercise in the spring of 2026, the TCL rapidly installed and deployed a gNB on a military base in the Western Pacific using commercial-of-the-shelf equipment. The deployment of OCUDU, Open5GS, and an O-RU (n77) from Dell Technologies provided mobile access to the Marine Corps' tactical network across an entire airfield. Topics of interest in the discussion will include: (1) Distributed core network architecture and network slicing, (2) Benefits of ORAN/OCUDU for new RU integration, (3) Hardware considerations to support expeditionary operations, (4) Future tactical use-cases for OCUDU and ORAN, (5) Importance of interoperability with O-RAN standards and (6) Challenges and areas for improvement to use OCUDU to provide 5G coverage at the tactical edge.

Speakers

Lucas Vancina

Tactical Cellular Architect, United States Marine Corps

Lucas Vancina is a native of Illinois, USA. He has been a Communications Officer and wireless networking specialist in the United States Marine Corps for almost a decade and has experience in tactical data networking, expeditionary and amphibious operations, and communications planning... Read More →

Andy Tran

Software Engineer, Naval Information Warfare Center

Andy Tran spearheaded the research, development, and deployment of 5G cellular systems across the Navy and Marine Corps, specifically enhancing communications capabilities at the tactical edge of the battlefield. Beyond deployment, they have conducted rigorous analysis on the vulnerabilities... Read More →

Wednesday October 21, 2026 3:40pm - 4:10pm EDT
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4:05pm EDT

Productionizing and Hardening OCUDU for Enterprise and Defense Deployments - Rajesh Rasalkar, Sempre.AI

Wednesday October 21, 2026 4:05pm - 4:35pm EDT

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Integrating OCUDU for research purpose is quite simple, however a mission critical deployable system, especially in constrained environments introduces a complex set of engineering challenges. At SEMPRE, we have taken OCUDU from source code to deployed edge systems supporting commercial and mission-critical defense applications. This session will discuss hardening OCUDU for constrained edge environments, including software packaging and configuration, zero-trust architectures, timing and synchronization in GNSS-denied conditions, and disconnected operations, field performance, fault recovery, lifecycle management, and AI-assisted tools for unattended operations.
We will also share practical lessons from system bring-up, platform integration, performance tuning, and the stability challenges encountered moving OCUDU into operational environments. We will highlight how the same hardened baseline can support capabilities beyond connectivity, including ISAC-based small UAS detection and multi-sensor fusion. Finally, we will identify opportunities to reduce deployment complexity, improve production readiness, and make OCUDU easier to adopt across for enterprise and defense use cases.

Speakers

Rajesh Rasalkar

Head of AI Research, Sempre.AI

Rajesh Rasalkar is a technology executive, entrepreneur, and wireless AI/ML architect with 25+ years of experience in wireless networking, cloud, edge computing, AI/ML, and telecommunications. He is Head of Engineering at SEMPRE.ai and PhoenixAI Technologies. At Meta, he led multiple... Read More →

Wednesday October 21, 2026 4:05pm - 4:35pm EDT
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4:35pm EDT

An AI-Driven Security Operator (AISecOps) for OCUDU - Haohuang Wen, SE-RAN.ai

Wednesday October 21, 2026 4:35pm - 5:05pm EDT

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Operating secure and resilient open-source RAN stacks such as OCUDU remains challenging, particularly for fine-grained runtime observability as well as real-time detection/mitigation of faults and security threats. This presentation introduces an AI-driven Security Operator (AISecOps) framework designed to harden the OCUDU architecture with self-healing and self-defending capabilities.

At its core the AISecOps operator leverages extended Berkeley Packet Filters (eBPF) technology to non-invasively extract real-time RAN-to-Core control plane and KPM telemetry, requiring zero source code modifications. This telemetry feeds a neurosymbolic diagnostic engine that combines deep-learning-based anomaly detection with reasoning-based safety guardrails to detect runtime fault and threat events. Moving beyond passive alerts, a knowledge-grounded agentic AI operator delivers autonomous threat incidents analysis, root-cause diagnostics, and mitigation response.

Attendees will learn how to deploy eBPF into OCUDU for deep security observability, and how agentic AI can automate the security incident handling cycle and execute fully autonomous or human-in-the-loop remediation at the edge.

Speakers

Haohuang Wen

Co-Founder and Technical Lead, SE-RAN.ai

Haohuang Wen is Co-Founder and Technical Lead at SE-RAN.ai, where he drives AI-driven SecOps solutions for next-generation cellular networks. He leads research and engineering initiatives specializing in securing 5G/6G/OpenRAN infrastructures through real-time RAN observability and... Read More →

Wednesday October 21, 2026 4:35pm - 5:05pm EDT
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5:05pm EDT

Zero-Trust Private 5G With Security-Hardened and Validated OCUDU GNBs - Dora Boviz, Dell Technologies

Wednesday October 21, 2026 5:05pm - 5:35pm EDT

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For many OCUDU target deployments an outage is a safety event, not just a bad customer experience: factory floors here robots and machine-vision safety loops depend on the network for low-latency control, and military and tactical sites running drone and robot command-and-control and ISAC. End users in those settings stop asking only about throughput and coverage and start asking two harder questions: can you prove it is secure, and can you keep it running while someone is attacking it?
This talk treats security and availability as one problem and proposes a common, modular security-validation framework that any OCUDU-based gNB product can adopt across vendors. I will walk the full trust chain (operator → SMO → management plane → gNB → open fronthaul → O-RU → edge), cover DoS resilience, provide a gap analysis against FIPS, DISA STIG and Common Criteria, and share a prioritized roadmap for hardening 5G and beyond Radio Access Networks built on OCUDU.
Attendees will leave with a proposed security hardening areas, a concrete understanding of where FIPS/STIG/Common Criteria apply, and a starting definition of a shared validation framework they can adopt and contribute to.

Speakers

Dora Boviz

Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Dell Technologies

Dora Boviz is a DMTS at Dell Technologies leading architecture definition for private 5G. She holds a PhD from CentraleSupelec. An early O-RAN practitioner, she has driven the security-hardening of Dell's private 5G network solution - spanning STIG compliance, Common Criteria, high... Read More →

Wednesday October 21, 2026 5:05pm - 5:35pm EDT
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Wednesday October 21, 2026 5:40pm - 5:55pm EDT

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Wednesday October 21, 2026 5:40pm - 5:55pm EDT
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9:00am EDT

Keynote: Opening Remarks

Thursday October 22, 2026 9:00am - 9:05am EDT

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Thursday October 22, 2026 9:00am - 9:05am EDT
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Thursday October 22, 2026 9:05am - 9:45am EDT

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Thursday October 22, 2026 9:05am - 9:45am EDT
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Building ISAC Into OCUDU: From MIMO Channel Access To End-to-End Cellular Sensing - Ish Jain, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Thursday October 22, 2026 10:15am - 10:45am EDT

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Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) is emerging as a key 6G capability, but enabling sensing in a real cellular stack requires exposing rich PHY measurements without disrupting real-time operation.

This talk presents lessons from two open-source cellular prototypes and how they can inform ISAC support in OCUDU. MIMO-RIC extends the srsRAN 5G stack with UCSD’s EdgeRIC controller to expose per-antenna, per-subcarrier PUSCH/DMRS channel estimates and feed control policies back to the RAN. Its over-the-air prototype demonstrates localization, interference monitoring, and MIMO nulling with

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Ish Jain

Building ISAC into OCUDU: From MIMO Channel Access to End-to-End Cellular Sensing, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Ish Kumar Jain is an Assistant Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), where he leads the Wireless AI and Systems (WAYS) Lab. His research focuses on experimental wireless systems, including Open RAN, MIMO, integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), mmWave networks... Read More →

Thursday October 22, 2026 10:15am - 10:45am EDT
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Monostatic 5G ISAC With OCUDU: Turning a 5G NR GNB Into a Radar Sensor - Oscar Venegas, Tiami Networks

Thursday October 22, 2026 11:10am - 11:40am EDT

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This session presents a practical implementation of monostatic integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) using an OCUDU-based 5G NR network and software-defined radio hardware. We demonstrate how an operational 5G downlink waveform can be reused for radar sensing without requiring a dedicated radar waveform or a cooperating UE. The presentation will cover the system architecture, acquisition of a local transmit reference, synchronization, OFDM-based channel estimation, and range-Doppler processing. We will also share experimental results from real-world sensing tests involving people, vehicles, and drones, along with practical lessons learned while extending an open-source 5G RAN platform beyond communications.

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Oscar Venegas

Head of Radio Systems, Tiami Networks

Oscar Venegas is Head of Radio Systems at Tiami Networks, where he works on 5G, software-defined radio, and integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems. He has previously worked at Nokia, Qualcomm, Motorola, and Keysight, with experience spanning wireless systems, RAN, and... Read More →

Thursday October 22, 2026 11:10am - 11:40am EDT
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Private 5G Networks: Enterprise Deployment and Distributed MIMO Architecture - Daniel Ping, REIGN Technology Corporation

Thursday October 22, 2026 11:40am - 12:10pm EDT

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This 30 minutes short session will unlock the full potential of enterprise private 5G by mastering Distributed MIMO (D-MIMO) on the O-CU/DU framework. Also provides a comprehensive look at how D-MIMO is redefining industrial connectivity. Attendees will explore the practical implementation of this technology alongside real-world use cases, including tactical VR training for defense and law enforcement, AI-powered camera networks in high-density smart manufacturing, and ISAC (Integrated Sensing and Communication) data aggregation. We will break down the key engineering challenges encountered during development/deployment and demonstrate the tangible benefits of D-MIMO—specifically its ability to eliminate coverage dead zones, reduce interference and guarantee reliable, high-bandwidth communication.

Speakers

Daniel Ping

VP of Engineering, REIGN Technology Corporation

● Vice President of Engineering, REIGN Technology Co. (Subsidiary of HTC), 2022-Present – Lead the Development and commercially deploying a comprehensive 5G NR solution (REIGN RAN CONNECT), including FDD/TDD Multi-Slicing, VoNR, PWS, MOCN, MCPTT and Distribute-MIMO/ Massive MIMO... Read More →

Thursday October 22, 2026 11:40am - 12:10pm EDT
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12:10pm EDT

Adapting OCUDU for Test Range Operations - Achilles Kogiantis, Altio Labs

Thursday October 22, 2026 12:10pm - 12:40pm EDT

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Supporting airborne and high-speed unmanned systems in test ranges requires wireless networks engineered for extreme distance, velocity, and mobility—challenges that extend well beyond conventional 5G deployments.

This presentation outlines the capabilities needed to adapt O-CUDU architectures for 5G and FutureG test range operations. We will explore how to enable very large airspace cells and support high-mobility UEs by maximizing existing 3GPP mechanisms, including extended Cyclic Prefix, RACH formats, and extended window searches. The discussion will also introduce potential beyond-standard enhancements. Specifically, we will focus on addressing gNB-side Doppler compensation and deploying advanced mobility management. By building upon standardized techniques like conditional handover, such enhanced mechanisms can improve link reliability and seamless transitions in highly dynamic scenarios.

Additionally, the talk will highlight the structural overlap with Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) standards, demonstrating how NTN-driven advances can secure robust connectivity for dynamic range users.

Speakers

Achilles Kogiantis

Head of Engineering / Co-Founder, Altio Labs

Dr. Kogiantis is Head of Engineering at Altio Labs, leading cellular telemetry, positioning, and sensing efforts that adapt 3GPP technologies for DoD applications. He has nearly 30 years of R&D experience, including 12 years at Bell Labs advancing MIMO for 3G/4G and 14 years at Peraton... Read More →

Thursday October 22, 2026 12:10pm - 12:40pm EDT
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