Keysight ruSIM for DU R&D and WG4 Conformance
• Support for FR1 and FR2
• Currently up to 4 MIMO Layers, extendable to 8 upon request
• Up to 16 simulated UEs, extendable upon request
Open6G OTIC
North American OTIC in the Boston Area
Open6G O-RAN Testing and Integration Center
The Open6G Open Testing and Integration Center (OTIC) is a hub for developing and testing next-generation wireless networks based on Open RAN. The OTIC was approved by the O-RAN Alliance as North American OTIC in the Boston Area (Northeastern University) in May 2023.
The Open6G OTIC provides testing services for Open RAN products, including compliance, interoperability, performance, and functional testing against multiple state-of-the-art environments – from real 5G RANs to emulated networks in Colosseum and RAN/RIC emulators.
OTIC Testing Equipment
Keysight DU, CU, and Core Simulator
• Wrap around testing for softwarized CU and DU solutions.
• Interoperability WG5 between multiple CUs and DUs
• Stress test of 5GNR Core ComponentsKeysight Time Sync Analyzer for RU R&D and WG4 Conformance
• S-Plane Testing
• Up to 4x 25GbE FH Traffic
• Support for FR1 and FR2Keysight MTRX for RU Conducted and Radiated WG4 Conformance
• Up to 64 Antennas
• FR1
• Massive MIMO and BeamformingKeysight Network Emulator 3
• Impairment generation and Delay introduction up to 100 Gbps
• Used to simulate diverse network conditions in IOT and E2E badgingKeysight UE Simulator with SDR
• Simulation of up to 64 UEs over RF, both conducted and radiated
• 4 TX and 4 RX Antennas
• 4 MIMO layersKeysight WaveJudge
• O-FH dissection
• OTA 5GNR decoding and troubleshootingKeysight MXR Infiniium Oscilloscopes
• 5GNR Decoding
• Vector Signal AnalysisVIAVI TeraVM RIC Test
• Testing and validation of xApps and rApps at scale
• Simulate a RAN with up to 100 gNBs and 2000 UEsAirspan Open RANGE solution with AirVelocity 2700 RU
• Two band N48 RUs that provide private 5G capabilities in the Open6G space
- A 48 x 49 x 20ft RF anechoic chamber, which allows to precisely characterize the emission of RUs in a controlled and isolated environment and to perform 3GPP Conformance Certification.
- An indoor software-defined testbed with 24 software-defined radios and 64 ceiling-mounted antennas (Arena).
- A private 5G network with a mix of commercial RUs and open-source DUs/CUs.
- A 150 x 200 x 60 ft , which enables safe experimentation with connected flying vehicles and related use cases. The outdoor space is connected to an indoor anechoic chamber.
- 128 NI USRP X310 in the Colosseum environment, each paired with a dedicated Dell PowerEdge blade that is user-accessible and can run any kind of software-defined wireless workload; The software in integrated with a CI/CD pipeline that continuously fetches and tests the latest version of the open wireless protocol stack and makes it readily accessible for users.
- Multiple racks of networking switches, FPGAs, and GPUs to run the Colosseum massive channel emulator (MCHEM), with complex ray-tracing capabilities to create high-fidelity digital replicas (digital twins) of the real-world physical environments, large-scale AI/ML training, O-RAN services (e.g., near-real-time and non-real-time RICs).
Key components of the OTIC include:
Colosseum
Colosseum, the world’s largest wireless network emulator with hardware-in-the-loop, with 256 software-defined radios, more than 20 racks of compute, with programmable GPUs, FPGAs, and components to orchestrate and manage a multi-tenant experimental environment.
Colosseum is already being used by more than 77 teams from different research institutions, and has already been successfully used to demonstrate closed-loop control for O-RAN. More info>>
OpenRAN Gym
The OpenRAN Gym framework, a large-scale data collection for the training of AI/ML, hosts multiple 5G protocol stacks for RAN and core and tests a mix of commercial radios and emulated devices. More info>>
Diverse 5G RAN Deployments
Multiple 5G RAN deployments and equipment, including softwarized and commercial RAN products, 5G UEs, core networks, a programmable 5G and O-RAN testbed with 10+ gNodeBs on the indoor Arena testbed, and testing equipment.
FCC Innovation Zone Framework
One of the four FCC Innovation Zone frameworks in the nation, which allows the lab to quickly obtain experimental licenses for over-the-air testing in the Northeastern University Innovation Campus in Burlington, MA, and in the main Boston, MA campus.
UAV Testing Facility
An outdoor UAV testing facility to profile use cases related to drone mobility and a large anechoic chamber to test radio devices in an interference-free environment. More info>>
Location
OTIC Facilities
The OTIC is hosted in the Northeastern WIoT Open6G facilities, which includes an open space with 4600 square feet of collaboration and experimental space, a conference room, a dedicated office, a storage room, and a data center room with dedicated cooling, power supply, and networking infrastructure. In addition to this indoor space, we provide access to an outdoor UAV flying cage and an indoor anechoic chamber in the same campus.
Services
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System-level testing and interoperability for end-to-end Open RAN system with physical and remote access
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Integration of commercial hardware and software on top of state-of-the-art experimental facilities for emulation testing
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Security, privacy, ease of deployment, and realistic, complex testing environments.
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Over-the-air and emulated wireless environments testing.
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