O-RAN 軟體社群 (OSC) 的成立是為了依據 O-RAN 聯盟定義的架構 和規範研發開放式無線電接入網絡 (RAN) 的軟體參考實現方案。在 OSC 開發項目中，O-RAN 中央單元 (O-CU) 項目由於缺乏貢獻資源而停止開 發。本文旨在通過利用 OAI 軟體聯盟 (OSA) 開發的 OAI 中央單元 (OAI CU) 來補足此差距。我們演示了整合 OSA 開發的 OAI CU 和 OSC 開發 的 OSC O-RAN 分佈式單元 (OSC O-DU) 所需的步驟。搭建實驗平台來 驗證論文的有效性。

The O-RAN Software Community (OSC) was established to develop a software reference implementation of the open radio access network (RAN) following the architecture and specifications defined by the O-RAN Al- liance. Among the OSC projects, the O-RAN central unit (O-CU) project was halted due to a lack of contributor resources. This paper aims to bridge the gap by leveraging the OAI central unit (OAI CU) developed by the OpenAirInterface Software Alliance (OSA). We demonstrate the steps re- quired to integrate the OAI CU developed by OSA and the OSC O-RAN distributed unit (OSC O-DU) developed by OSC. Experimental platform was built to verify the effectiveness of the paper.

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