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Demo: ETHOS: Demystifying Performance, Energy, and Computational Efficiency in Virtualized 5G O-RAN Networks

Zongshen Wu, Rahman Doost-Mohammady, Ashutosh Sabharwal

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Abstract

Radio Access Networks (RANs) are increasingly softwarized and disaggregated, resulting in diverse and interoperable components running on commodity hardware and compute platforms. In this demo, we present a real-time RAN testing framework, called ETHOS, designed to capture fine-grained metrics on performance, energy consumption, and computational efficiency for O-RAN-compliant systems across a range of compute platforms. ETHOS also interfaces with the RAN stack for real-time controlling to test various scheduling algorithms. ETHOS leverages a shared memory-based inter-process communication (IPC) framework and automates testing through the emulation of diverse user traffic and channel conditions. We deploy ETHOS on the NVIDIA ARC-OTA platform in this demonstration to show its effectiveness. ETHOS is designed to be easily portable to other commercial and open-source RAN software, offering the potential for a unified testing and evaluation framework to accelerate O-RAN research and innovation.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationMobiHoc 2025 - Proceedings of the 2025 International Symposium on Theory, Algorithmic Foundations, and Protocol Design for Mobile Networks and Mobile Computing.
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages395-396
Number of pages2
ISBN (Electronic)9798400713538
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 23 2025
Event26th International Symposium on Theory, Algorithmic Foundations, and Protocol Design for Mobile Networks and Mobile Computing, MobiHoc 2025 - Houston, United States
Duration: Oct 27 2025Oct 30 2025

Publication series

NameMobiHoc 2025 - Proceedings of the 2025 International Symposium on Theory, Algorithmic Foundations, and Protocol Design for Mobile Networks and Mobile Computing.

Conference

Conference26th International Symposium on Theory, Algorithmic Foundations, and Protocol Design for Mobile Networks and Mobile Computing, MobiHoc 2025
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityHouston
Period10/27/2510/30/25

Keywords

  • O-RAN
  • algorithm testing
  • automated testing framework
  • communication performance
  • energy efficiency
  • real-time profiling system

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Hardware and Architecture

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