{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2025,12,2]],"date-time":"2025-12-02T20:46:55Z","timestamp":1764708415701,"version":"3.46.0"},"publisher-location":"New York, NY, USA","reference-count":27,"publisher":"ACM","content-domain":{"domain":["dl.acm.org"],"crossmark-restriction":true},"short-container-title":[],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2025,11,4]]},"DOI":"10.1145\/3737900.3770167","type":"proceedings-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,12,2]],"date-time":"2025-12-02T20:43:11Z","timestamp":1764708191000},"page":"15-21","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Distributed AI Platform for the 6G RAN"],"prefix":"10.1145","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7479-1664","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ganesh","family":"Ananthanarayanan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Microsoft, Redmond, USA"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0007-5853-4346","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Matthew","family":"Balkwill","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Microsoft, Cambridge, United Kingdom"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1234-9096","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xenofon","family":"Foukas","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Microsoft, Cambridge, United Kingdom"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0005-6429-7194","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zhihua","family":"Lai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Microsoft, Cambridge, United Kingdom"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0002-9187-0169","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Bozidar","family":"Radunovic","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Microsoft, Cambridge, United Kingdom"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0003-9305-025X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Connor","family":"Settle","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Microsoft, Cambridge, United Kingdom"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0002-5793-2899","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yongguang","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Microsoft, Redmond, USA"}]}],"member":"320","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,12,2]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_3_2_1_1_1","unstructured":"AI-RAN Alliance. Aug 2024. Integrating AI\/ML in Open-RAN: Overcoming Challenges and Seizing Opportunities. Technical Report. AI-RAN Alliance."},{"key":"e_1_3_2_1_2_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1145\/3570361.3615745"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_1_3_1","unstructured":"Arjun Balasingam et al. 2024. Application-Level Service Assurance with 5G RAN Slicing. In USENIX NSDI."},{"key":"e_1_3_2_1_4_1","first-page":"10","article-title":"2022. ML-based radio resource management in 5G and beyond networks: A survey","author":"Bartsiokas Ioannis A","year":"2022","unstructured":"Ioannis A Bartsiokas et al. 2022. ML-based radio resource management in 5G and beyond networks: A survey. IEEE Access 10 (2022).","journal-title":"IEEE Access"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_1_5_1","first-page":"1","article-title":"2022. Context-aware security for 6G wireless: The role of physical layer security","volume":"6","author":"Arsenia Chorti","year":"2022","unstructured":"Arsenia Chorti et al. 2022. Context-aware security for 6G wireless: The role of physical layer security. IEEE Communications Standards Magazine 6, 1 (2022), 102--108.","journal-title":"IEEE Communications Standards Magazine"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_1_6_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Salvatore D'Oro et al. 2022. dApps: Distributed applications for real-time inference and control in O-RAN. IEEE Communications (2022).","DOI":"10.1109\/MCOM.002.2200079"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_1_7_1","unstructured":"eBPF. [n. d.]. Dynamically program the kernel for efficient networking observability tracing and security. https:\/\/ebpf.io\/."},{"key":"e_1_3_2_1_8_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Xenofon Foukas et al. 2023. Taking 5G RAN analytics and control to a new level. In ACM MobiCom. 1--16.","DOI":"10.1145\/3570361.3592493"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_1_9_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1145\/3117811.3117831"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_1_10_1","volume-title":"Concordia: Teaching the 5G vRAN to share compute. In ACM SIGCOMM.","author":"Foukas Xenofon","year":"2021","unstructured":"Xenofon Foukas and Bozidar Radunovic. 2021. Concordia: Teaching the 5G vRAN to share compute. In ACM SIGCOMM."},{"key":"e_1_3_2_1_11_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1145\/3708468.3711887"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_1_12_1","volume-title":"USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI).","author":"Anuj","unstructured":"Anuj Kalia et al. 2025. Towards Energy Efficient 5G vRAN Servers. In USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)."},{"key":"e_1_3_2_1_13_1","volume-title":"21st USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 24)","author":"Ko Woo-Hyun","year":"2024","unstructured":"Woo-Hyun Ko, Ushasi Ghosh, Ujwal Dinesha, Raini Wu, Srinivas Shakkottai, and Dinesh Bharadia. 2024. {EdgeRIC}: Empowering real-time intelligent optimization and control in {NextG} cellular networks. In 21st USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 24). 1315--1330."},{"key":"e_1_3_2_1_14_1","unstructured":"Lopamudra Kundu et al. 2024. Towards Energy Efficient RAN: From Industry Standards to Trending Practice. arXiv:2402.11993 (2024)."},{"key":"e_1_3_2_1_15_1","unstructured":"Microsoft. [n.d.]. Userspace instrumentation and control framework for deploying control and monitoring functions in a secure manner. https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/jbpf."},{"key":"e_1_3_2_1_16_1","unstructured":"Microsoft. 2025. jrt-controller. https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/jrt-controller."},{"key":"e_1_3_2_1_17_1","unstructured":"Microsoft. 2025. jrtc-apps. https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/jrtc-apps."},{"key":"e_1_3_2_1_18_1","unstructured":"Iain Morris. 2024. AT&T all in with Ericsson seems to have shut the door to xApps. https:\/\/bit.ly\/3TZzYP0."},{"key":"e_1_3_2_1_19_1","unstructured":"Nvidia. [n.d.]. NVIDIA Isaac ROS. https:\/\/developer.nvidia.com\/isaac\/ros."},{"key":"e_1_3_2_1_20_1","unstructured":"Nvidia. 2023. Building Software-Defined High-Performance and Efficient vRAN. http:\/\/bit.ly\/4mjBiIF."},{"key":"e_1_3_2_1_21_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Leonardo Lo Schiavo et al. 2024. YinYangRAN: Resource Multiplexing in GPU-Accelerated Virtualized RANs. In IEEE INFOCOM. 1--10.","DOI":"10.1109\/INFOCOM52122.2024.10621380"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_1_22_1","volume-title":"IEEE INFOCOM 2021-IEEE Conference on Computer Communications. IEEE, 1--10","author":"Rajkarn","unstructured":"Rajkarn Singh et al. 2021. Energy-efficient orchestration of metro-scale 5G radio access networks. In IEEE INFOCOM 2021-IEEE Conference on Computer Communications. IEEE, 1--10."},{"key":"e_1_3_2_1_23_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1109\/ACCESS.2023.3281480"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_1_24_1","unstructured":"srsRAN. [n.d.]. srsRAN Project-Open Source RAN. https:\/\/www.srslte.com\/."},{"key":"e_1_3_2_1_25_1","unstructured":"Chuanhao Sun et al. 2024. SpotLight: Accurate Explainable and Efficient Anomaly Detection for Open RAN. In ACM MobiCom."},{"key":"e_1_3_2_1_26_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Stylianos E Trevlakis et al. 2023. Localization as a key enabler of 6G wireless systems: A comprehensive survey and an outlook. IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (2023).","DOI":"10.36227\/techrxiv.21822096"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_1_27_1","volume-title":"Vulcan: Automatic Query Planning for Live ML Analytics. In USENIX NSDI.","author":"Yiwen Zhang","year":"2024","unstructured":"Yiwen Zhang et al. 2024. Vulcan: Automatic Query Planning for Live ML Analytics. In USENIX NSDI."}],"event":{"name":"ACM MobiCom '25: The 31st Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking","location":"Hong Kong China","acronym":"OpenRan '25","sponsor":["SIGMOBILE ACM Special Interest Group on Mobility of Systems, Users, Data and Computing"]},"container-title":["Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Workshop on Open and AI RAN"],"original-title":[],"link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/pdf\/10.1145\/3737900.3770167","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2025,12,2]],"date-time":"2025-12-02T20:43:17Z","timestamp":1764708197000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1145\/3737900.3770167"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2025,11,4]]},"references-count":27,"alternative-id":["10.1145\/3737900.3770167","10.1145\/3737900"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3737900.3770167","relation":{},"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2025,11,4]]},"assertion":[{"value":"2025-12-02","order":3,"name":"published","label":"Published","group":{"name":"publication_history","label":"Publication History"}}]}}