James Li, China Mobile Technology (USA) Inc.
I have extensive experience with open source projects/communities, starting with ONAP, and then Acumos, LF Edge Akraino, and OSC. I was actively involved in the Akraino Public Cloud Edge Interface (PCEI) blueprint, and was awarded the “Committers of the Year” in 2021, and the PCEI blueprint was recognized as one of the “Blueprints of the Year” in 2021. I joined the RICAPP project as a committer about a year ago, and mainly worked with my colleagues on the Load Predictor (LP) xApp. Earlier this year I participated in the discussion of the “Portability SDK” to ease the xApp development across RIC platforms (OSC and ONF as of now). Recently I also tried to set up a lab environment in our office that mimics the OSC community lab, in the hope to help integration test in the future. I view the RICAPP project as one of the best venues to demonstrate the intelligence pillar of the O-RAN initiative, and would like to strive for the following goals: 1. Fast software reference implementation with the O-RAN Alliance’s open architecture and specifications; 2. Solid xApp examples for others to start with/follow; 3. More interoperability tests and end-to-end verification.
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