O-RAN Simulation for Some Typical Use Cases

In this talk, Professor Zhang will present O-RAN network simulation results obtained from Ranplan Professional® for some typical use cases such as massive MIMO optimisation, QoS modeling and optimisation, and industrial IoT optimisation. It is assumed that the simulated O-RAN network is deployed in both indoor and joint indoor-outdoor scenarios such as offices, warehouses, smart factories, and campuses. The simulated KPIs included SS RSRP, SS RSRQ and RS-SINR for coverage, DL/UL throughput for capacity, and reliability and latency for QoS.

Jie Zhang has held the “Chair (Professor) in Wireless Systems” with the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, U.K., since January 2011. He is also a Founder, a Board Director and the Chief Scientific Officer of Ranplan Wireless, Cambridge, U.K., a public company listed on Nasdaq First North. Along with his students and colleagues, he has pioneered research in small cell and heterogeneous networks and published some of the landmark papers and books on these topics, widely used by both academia and industry. Since 2010, he and his team have also developed ground-breaking work in building wireless performance modeling, evaluation and optimization, the key concepts of which were introduced in “Fundamental Wireless Performance of a Building”, IEEE Wireless Communications, 29(1), 2022.