Aerial RAN CoLab Over-the-Air (ARC-OTA for short) is a full-featured platform targeted for next generation wireless evolution that eases developer onboarding and algorithm development in real time networks. ARC-OTA equips developers, researchers, operators, and network equipment providers with all requisite components necessary to deploy a campus network for research.
Here is a ten minute video introducing ARC-OTA:
Software Release Manifest
Component | Version |
Aerial SDK (ASDK) PHY | 23-4 |
OAI gNB | OAI_Aerial_v2.2.2 |
OAI CN | OAI_Aerial_v2.2.2 |
ARC-OTA delivers the following:
A 3GPP Release 15 compliant and Over-The-Air (OTA) operational O-RAN 7.2 split campus 5G SA 4T4R wireless stack with all network elements from Radio Access Network and 5G Core. Aerial CUDA-Accelerated RAN (https://developer.nvidia.com/aerial) is integrated with Open Air Alliance (OAI) (https://openairinterface.org/) Distributed Unit (DU), Centralized Unit(CU), or a 5G NR gNB and 5G Core Node(CN) network elements.
A blueprint to ease onboarding, staging, and integrating the Advanced 5G network components and verification steps through bi-directional UDP traffic. This blueprint topology is illustrated below and along with the comprehensive Bill of Materials(BOM), a step-by-step staging and setup recipe, tutorials, troubleshooting tips are provided to configure all the network components for a quick turnaround live network.
Complete access to source code in C/C++ is available from Layer 1 through 5GC to jump start customizations and NG algorithm research.
- Getting Started
- Discover ARC-OTA
- Installation Guide
- Tutorials
- NVIDIA Technical Talks
- On-Boarding Help
- Early Adopters
- Release Notes
- Developer Extensions
- Licensing
- Publications
- Support
- Background