Schedule – April 17, 2024
Note that changes might still be done to the schedule, please check our website regularly for updates!
| 09:00-09:30 → Welcome Note |
| OSMNT Team, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany |
| Welcoming the guests, presenting the purpose and the structure of the event. |
| 09:30-10:00 → OMNT Project – Collecting measurement data on the mobile network |
| Peter Hasse, Researcher, FhG FOKUS, Germany |
| OMNT – Open Mobile Network Toolkit provides tooling to researchers and developers of mobile communication networks like 3GPP 2/3/4/5G. The main objective of OMNT is the collection of measurement data on the mobile network like RSSI, RSRQ, RSRP, GNSS position, Cell ID, PLNM and much more. On top of those passive measurements on the radio environment and network parameters, OMNT can also run a iPerf3 server / client for bandwidth, latency and jitter evaluation as well as round-trip-time and jitter evaluation via ICMP (Ping). Measurement data can be stored locally and / or send to an InfluxDB 2.x server. Measurement results can be visualized e.g. via provided Graphana Dashboards or be further processed e.g. with python. Besides its measurement capabilities OMNT provides a deep insight in the state of the phone e.g. software versions, connectivity states, SIM card content and much more. Network related Carrier Settings can be configured (if the app is granted the corresponding privileges). Also OMNT provides access to different “secret” settings in Android phones. Learn about the current state of the application and a quick walk through on how to use it. |
| 10:00-10:30 → Measurement Of Glass To Glass Latency When Viewing A 5G Connected Camera Using Open Hardware And Software |
| Tim Panton, CTO at |pipe|, UK |
| As part of our testing of our 5G connected camera we wanted to get a repeatable measure of the latency experienced by the viewer (Eg a tele-operator or sport viewer). We built a small measuring device based on opensource hardware and software. In this session we will describe and demonstrate the device and present some results comparing different wifi/4/5g network architectures. |
| 10:30-11:00 → 5G-LENA: An Open Source NS-3 Simulator For NR 5G Networks |
| Dr. Biljana Bojović, Senior Researcher at Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain |
| 5G-LENA is an open-source 5G New Radio (NR) network simulator, designed as a pluggable module to ns-3. 5G-LENA is being designed, developed and maintained by the Open Simulations research unit (OpenSim) of CTTC (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya). OpenSim research group maintains a strong commitment with the ns-3 community in the areas of NR, NR V2X, NR-U, O-RAN, LTE, and its evolutions in licensed and unlicensed spectrum. 5G-LENA development, initially funded by InterDigital, is open to the community under GPLv2 license in order to foster early adoption, contributions by industrial and academic partners, collaborative development and results reproducibility. The 5G-LENA simulator enables end-to-end simulations from the application layer down to the physical layer and thus provides invaluable insights into the design of industrial 5G solutions and allows early assessment of the potential performance of such solutions. In this session, we will overview 5G-LENA history, highlight the main features and provide some insights in the future developments towards O-RAN and 6G. |
| 11:00-11:30 → srsRAN Project – A Swissknife In Open-Source RAN Solutions |
| Supreeth Herle, Senior Software Engineer, srsRAN, Germany |
| Explore the srsRAN project, an open-source beacon for the O-RAN compliant radio access networks. From its features to roadmap and detailed documentation, we’ll cover what makes srsRAN a key player in advancing RAN technology. The highlight is a live demo showcasing srsRAN’s application in high uplink traffic scenarios. |
| 11:30-12:00 → Open Source Radio Intelligent Controllers |
| Dr.-Ing. Martin Kasparick, FhG HHI, Germany |
| The session focuses on our experience with open source Radio Intelligent Controllers (RIC) in the context of open radio access networks. We will describe our experience with the development of apps for (near-real-time) RICs, in particular for the FlexRIC and O-RAN Software Community RIC projects. We will also discuss possibilities and lessons learned for the integration in end-to-end testbeds. |
| 12:00-12:30 → OpenAirInterface Projects: Status, Deployments, and Road Ahead |
| Dr. Robert Schmidt, RAN Team Lead, OpenAirInterface Software Alliance, France |
| The OpenAirInterface Software Alliance hosts many 5G-related open source projects, spanning from the 5G radio access network (RAN) via core network (5GC) to operations and management. This talk will give an overview over current projects and their status. We will look at different deployment options, with a focus on the RAN. Finally, the talk concludes with updates of the roadmap of the different projects. |
| 12:30-13:30 → Lunch Break |
| Many restaurants, fastfood, bakery or snack options are available in the area. |
| 13:30-13:45 → Kamailio SIP Server – 4/5G Extenssions |
| Daniel-Constantin Mierla, Kamailio Project Lead, Germany |
| Kamailio is an open source SIP Server developed since 2001, widely known in the IP telephony (VoIP) space. With integration of OpenIMSCore project during 2008-2010, it became the first open source SIP server project offering components for mobile network text, voice and video communication services. Since then, new extensions have been added to match the requirements over the years for 3G, 4G and 5G. The session is presenting the existing components offered by Kamailio for VoLTE and VoNR services. |
| 13:45-14:00 → PyHSS – A snakey solution for all your subscriber data |
| Nick Jones, Founder PyHSS Project, Australia |
| PyHSS is an open source HSS, IMS-HSS, EIR, PCRF and a whole lot more acronyms. What started as a basic HSS for IMS use, now serves pretty much every Diameter interface we can find. From building fancy rating groups and charging rules in the PCRF, to retrieving location information for 911 calls, to generating insights into devices on the network, PyHSS can do it all, while being designed for a micro services architecture and for distributed deployments. In this talk we’ll explore the key capabilities of PyHSS, talk about some networks we’ve built with PyHSS, the challenges we’ve overcome and what’s coming next on the roadmap. |
| 14:00-14:30 → Intro and Dive with free5GC |
| Yi Chen, coordinator of Free5GC project, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU), Taiwan |
| In this presentation, free5GC will be first introduced, delving then into its development plan and implementation details. Specifically, the implementation segment will center around the OAuth Mechanism and Convergent Charging, aimed at swiftly acquainting audiences with the novel features of free5GC. |
| 14:30-15:00 → The present and future of open source for 5/6G service |
| All speakers |
| Open discussion about the current state of open source for 5/6G mobile networks and what to expect next. |
| 15:00-15:30 → Open Modular Campus Networks Driving the 5G Evolution Towards 6G |
| Prof. Dr. Thomas Magedanz, Technische Universität Berlin & Fraunhofer Fokus Institute, Germany |
| Learn the role of open and modular 5G campus networks and how they can lead the 5G Evolution towards 6G. Get the details of the current state of evolving towards 6G in research and academic institutes and the future directions. |
| 15:30-16:00 → pySim – A Simcard Multitool |
| Philipp Maier, PySim Project, Germany |
| PySim is a powerful simcard multitool which offers rich features from scripted bulk provisioning of large simcard batches to an interactive shell that allows the fine tuning of nearly every aspect of modern UICCs. In this 25 minute talk we will cover the basic concepts of pySim along with practical examples and finish with an outlook on recent and planned pySim features. |
| 16:00-16:30 → P4-UPF with golang Control Plane Agent |
| Marcel Sowiak, Senior Software Engineer at BISDN GmbH, Germany |
| BISDN P4 UPF is a Data Plane Handler written in P4. Control Plane Agent is written in golang. Own PFCP parsing library, which allows dynamic parsing of PFCP TLVs was also implemented. |
| 16:30-17:00 → 5G Lab at TUB/AV Chair |
| Elena-Ramona Modroiu, Researcher, TU Berlin, Germany |
| At Next Generation Networks Chair, led by Prof. Dr. Magedanz, current research work focuses on 6th generation of mobile networks, partnering with almost 20 German research institutes and universities in the open6GHub project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The 5G Lab at TUB/AV main target is to lower the barrier in accessing and learning about mobile network technologies for the students primarily, while signaling the important role open source plays in getting more flexibility and affordable costs when deploying 6G-ready research infrastructure. The presentation will give an insight in the technology building blocks, in the current research activities and the roadmap on exploring further optimizations towards 6G. |