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Even in smaller RAN networks, it is quite confusion when description and discussing issues when there is no clear naming conventions are assigned.

This page proposes a naming conventions to serve the O-RAN-SC use cases.

Naming Convention

The O-RAN Architecture defines a hierarchy of components. This hierarchy should be reflected in the component names. Typically a distinguish name can be used. The drawback of such distinguish names is, that those become very long within a hierarchy. To shorten the names the O-RAN Component name concatenated with  a local identifier compared it its hierarchy level could be used. 

Example:

O-RU-12123

"O-RU" is the O-RAN Component Name.

The "identifier" 12123 is a combination of the local-ids in the hierarchy.

  • 1.... -> SMO #1
  • 12... -> Near-RT-RC #2
  • 121.. -> O-CU #1
  • 1212. -> O-DU #2
  • 12123 -> O-RU #3

Note: Obviously this naming conventions has its limitation but should be able to server O-RAN-SC use cases. In more complex scenarios more complex rules must be applied. 

Instance Diagram

The following diagram show O-RAN component instances with the following patter:

  • 2x Near-RT-RICs are assigned to the SMO
  • each Near-RT-RIC controls 2 logical O-CUs which are disaggregated into O-CU-UP and O-CU-CP.
  • each logical O-CU has F1 interfaces to 2x O-DU and
  • each O-DU controls 3x O-RUs.

The blue associations describe the OAM related traffic in a hybrid O-RAN architecture. 

  • OpenFronthaul M-Plane from O-RUs to the SMO
  • O1 from all other O-RAN components to the SMO

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