O-RAN API for 5G-NR Orchestration Across Multi-Vendor Components
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Solution Overview
Problem
The challenge in radio access networks is orchestrating multiple-vendor components performing radio network functions, as they have different mechanisms for communicating and exchanging information, leading to inefficiencies in energy consumption and dynamic radio resource management.
Innovation Solution
Implementing an application programming interface (API) that enables processors to cause accelerators to perform packaging, synchronization, and management operations in an Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN), allowing for the efficient transmission and processing of 5G-NR data packets, packaging information, synchronization information, and management information across different components.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple-vendor components are used to perform radio network functions, then vendor-specific optimization and functional flexibility are improved, but communication coordination and information exchange between components become more complex and less efficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a standardized interface as an intermediary layer between multiple-vendor radio network components. This interface defines uniform protocols for information exchange and coordination, allowing vendor-specific optimized components to communicate efficiently without direct complex interactions. The standardized interface mediates the communication between components from different vendors, resolving the coordination complexity while preserving vendor-specific optimizations.
2Use of energy by moving object
If radio network components are split into individual components performed independently, then energy consumption and dynamic resource management are improved, but orchestration of multiple components becomes more challenging
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal standardized interface that enables independent radio network components to be orchestrated efficiently. This interface provides multi-functional capabilities including packaging, synchronization, and management operations that work consistently across different vendors and component types. The universal interface simplifies orchestration by providing consistent mechanisms for controlling and coordinating independently performed components, reducing the operational complexity despite the distributed architecture.
3Productivity
If standardized interfaces are implemented for information exchange between radio network components, then coordination efficiency is improved, but interface design and implementation complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the standardized interface into distinct functional operations: packaging operations for data formatting, synchronization operations for timing coordination, and management operations for resource control. This segmentation allows each interface function to be designed and implemented independently with well-defined purposes, reducing the overall interface design complexity while maintaining high coordination efficiency through specialized optimized routines for each operation type.
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AI summary
Apparatuses, systems, and techniques including APIs to enable one or more fifth generation new radio (5G-NR) network components to write, read, send, transmit, load, or otherwise obtain packaging, synchronization, and/or management information. For example, a processor comprising one or more circuits to perform an application programming interface (API) to cause fifth generation new radio (5G-NR) packaging, synchronization, or management information to be indicated to one or more accelerators.