EdgeRIC: Enabling Real-Time AI-on-RAN systems

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EdgeRIC: Real-Time AI-in-the-Loop decision making and control in cellular networks.

  • Next-generation Fine-Grained Telemetry for deep network observability

  • Reasoning over Network Dynamics for adaptive control

  • Experience-Aware Cellular for satisfying user experience over cellular networks

  • Mar 2026 - EdgeRIC with srsRAN 25.10 release

  • Feb 2026 - Sushila and Ushasi attended HotMobile

  • April 2024 - EdgeRIC main paper presented at NSDI 2024

  • Feb 2024 - BeamArmor presented at Hotmobile’24

  • Feb 2024 - Tiny-twin poster presented at Hotmobile’24

  • Nov 2023 - BeamArmor demo presented at Milcom ‘23 poster

  • Oct 2023 - EdgeRIC demo at srsRAN workshop 2023

  • Sept 2023 - EdgeRIC demo at Sigcomm 2023

  • Aug 2023 - EdgeRIC team attends the first OAIC workshop at Virginia Tech

Our Projects

Cloud Gaming via 5G

mmsRAN: Multi-Modal Sensing

SCOUT: Packet Centric Telemetry

QoE-aware Networking

Cellular Digital Twins

PRISM: 5G log Analysis

Our Projects

Team

Team

Dinesh Bharadia

Professor, UCSD

Srinivas Shakkottai

Professor, TAMU

Ish Jain

Professor, RPI

Shunsuke Saruwatari

Professor, Osaka University

Woo Hyun Ko

Senior Research Engineer, TAMU

Ushasi Ghosh

PhD Student, UCSD

Sushila Seshasayee

PhD Student, UCSD

Ali Mamaghani

PhD Student, UCSD

Archana Bura

Postdoc, UCSD

Qingyuan Zheng

MS Student, UCSD

Frederik Zumegen

Visiting Researcher, UCSD

Sesha Sai Rakesh

MS Student, UCSD

WCSNG

Lab @ UCSD

Demos

Demos

BeamArmor

Anti-jamming: Controlling MIMO weights in realtime to steer the beam null toward the jammer

EdgeRIC: AI driven Scheduling

RL-based scheduling policy trained to maximize overall system throughput

SPARC: Multi-site Management

Interference-aware resource distribution across sites with Near-RT RIC

Events

EdgeRIC Events

2024

srsRAN Workshop 2024

Talk - EdgeRIC: Empowering Real-time Intelligent Optimization & Control in NextG Edge Networks (Professor Srinivas Shakkottai)

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2024

srsRAN Workshop 2024

EdgeRIC tutorial talk: integration, experiments, and muApps deployment (Ushasi Ghosh)

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2024

OAIC Workshop 2024

Hand on Workshop on EdgeRIC integration and muApps deployment (Ushasi Ghosh)

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2022

OAI North American Workshop 2022

Charting the NextG Frontier: Prof. Dinesh Bharadia on the Evolution of 5G, RAN, and Digital Twins.

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Open Source Repositories

Open Source Repositories

srsRAN-4G + EdgeRIC

Release Date: TBD

Description: EdgeRIC integrated with srsRAN 4G

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srsRAN-5G (2024) + EdgeRIC

Release Date: 2024

Description: EdgeRIC on srsRAN 5G 2024 release

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srsRAN-5G (25.10) + EdgeRIC

Release Date: 25.10

Description: EdgeRIC on srsRAN 5G 25.10 release

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OAI + EdgeRIC

Release Date: Oct 01, 2025

Description: EdgeRIC integrated with OpenAirInterface

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5G Testbed

5G Testbed

5G Testbed

EdgeRIC Core Architecture

EdgeRIC Architecture

RT-E2 interface (Real time E2 interface)
Messaging framework between the RAN stack and EdgeRIC, built on ZMQ and protobuf, with TTI-level synchronization.
RT-E2 Report Message
Per-UE KPI report structure (cqi, buffers, TBS, rates) sent every TTI from the RAN to EdgeRIC.
RT-E2 Policy Message
Control-action messages from μApps back to the RAN, including scheduling weights and blanking decisions.
REDIS database
How Redis is used for model storage, μApp lifecycle management, and dynamic configuration.
μApps – EdgeRIC microservices
How μApps subscribe to metrics, compute policies, and send control via the EdgeRIC messenger.
Some Example μApps
Available suite of muApps for different use cases.

Publications & Tutorials

Publications & Tutorials

EdgeRIC: Empowering Real-time Intelligent Optimization and Control in NextG Cellular Networks.

Paper@NSDI'24 Demo@SIGCOMM'23 Demo Project Website Code on GitHub Tutorial

Beamarmor: Seamless anti-jamming in 5g cellular networks with mimo null-steering.

Paper@HotMobile'24 Paper@MobiCom'24 Demo Project Website Code on GitHub Tutorial

Tiny-Twin: A CPU-Native Full-stack Digital Twin for NextG Cellular Networks.

Paper@DySPAN'26 Poster@HotMobile'24 Demo Tutorial

Windex: Realtime Neural Whittle Indexing for Scalable Service Guarantees in NextG Cellular Networks.

Main Paper Demo@MobiCom'24 Project Website Code on GitHub Tutorial

SPARC: Spatio-Temporal Adaptive Resource Control for Multi-site Spectrum Management in NextG Cellular Networks.

Paper@CoNEXT'25 Demo Project Website Code on GitHub Tutorial

Datasets

Datasets

EdgeRIC Dataset

Channel traces (CQI) from over-the-air mobility experiments, used for Tiny-twin emulation and RL training.

Scout Dataset

Log dataset for SCOUT: packet-centric telemetry logs, per-packet latency, queue dynamics, and scheduling impact analysis.

Funding

This work was funded primarily by NSF Grants CNS 2312978, CNS 2312979 and in part by CNS 1955696, ECCS 2030245, ARO grant W911NF- 19-1-0367.