CCRI: Open AI Cellular (OAIC): Prototyping AI-Enabled Control and TEsting Systems for Cellular Communications Research

Open AI Cellular (OAIC) is an NSF CISE research infrastructure project that  brings together investigators from NextG Wireless Lab@Mason, Mississippi State University (MSU), and Wireless@Virginia Tech (VT) to develop a software infrastructure that spurs research and development on artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled cellular radio networks. OAIC provides a fully open-source infrastructure platform that provides software architecture, library and toolset that encompass both the AI controllers (OAIC-C) as well as an AI testing framework (OAIC-T) for enabling 6G Radio Access Networks.

This OAIC research infrastructure:

• Specifies the methodology along with the technical requirements, a reference architecture and design to facilitate collaborative software development.

• Designs and develops the fundamental OAIC-C software library for common software-defined radio (SDR) platforms.

• Facilitates systematic and exhaustive testing with the OAIC-T framework on community wireless research testbeds that are accessible to researchers.

• Develops verification tools and resources to facilitate rapid prototyping and testing as well as offers a variety of user services, such as mailing lists, code repositories, and learning materials.

• Implements a variety of community engagement and outreach processes, including the organization of workshops to engage with and leverage the community for long-term maintenance and sustainability.

How will wireless community benefit?

•  OAIC (both OAIC-C and OAIC-T) will a fully open-source community research infrastructure.

  • • Source code will be be made available via Github and/or OAIC website.

    • OAIC SDR testbed will be remotely accessible via website and/or terminal

• Use OAIC-C to build your own AI controllers (using near-RT RIC and/or RT RIC) for PHY, MAC (and possibly higher layers) RAN functionalities

• Use OAIC-T to test your AI-controlled RAN functionalities. (Source code will be made available as well.)

• All the collected dataset will be made available. You can remotely utilize OAIC testbed platform to collect your own dataset for experimental/verification purposes.

• All the documentation, services, tools will be made available. OAIC platform will be also be remotely available.

Find NSF abstract here.