OAIC-EdgeRIC Workshop ‘24

First EdgeRIC workshop will be held in association with the NSF open AI Cellular (OAIC) Workshop at Mississippi State University.

Dates: August 6-8, 2024

Register here: https://www.openaicellular.org/2024-oaic-workshop

Tutorial Date: August 7, 12-2PM

Agenda:

• Part I: Introduction

  • Introduction to the EdgeRIC Project

• Part II: Our network setup

  • Installation of our containerized srsRAN 4G with EdgeRIC support

  • Running the E2E n/w with traffic

• Part III: Hands on Tutorial

  • Introduction to EdgeRIC python API

    • how to write muApps

  • Deploy EdgeRIC

    • Introduce CQI based abstraction of channel on Tiny-twin

    • Run various kinds of traffic profiles

    • Visualize real time metrics - throughput (UL/ DL), CQI, Buffer (UL/ DL) per UE on dashboard

  • Running an example muApp

    • Perform downlink scheduling control for various algorithms

  • EdgeRIC training on Tiny-twin

    • Train an RL scheduling policy with EdgeRIC

• EdgeRIC tutorial
  • μApp demo: MAC scheduling
    • Training Reinforcement Learning scheduling Policy
  • Install srsRAN supporting EdgeRIC hooks
    • Option 1: Install on your system
      • Dependencies and cloning the repository
      • Compile the protobuf message schema
      • Build the repository
    • Option 2: Install the containerized version
      • Building the srsRAN with EdgeRIC support
      • Note on Channel Emulation
  • How to run the network
    • Setup the core and srsenb
    • Run the UEs
      • Known Issue
    • Stream Traffic:
      • Running Downlink iperf traffic
  • Running EdgeRIC
    • EdgeRIC messenger
    • μApps supported in this codebase
    • Running muApp1 - downlink scheduler
      • Setting the scheduler algorithm manually
    • Using redis to update the scheduling algorithm
    • Running muApp3 - Monitoring
    • Running muApp2 - Training an RL policy for scheduling
      • Usage
      • muApp2_train_RL_DL_scheduling.py
      • Repo Structure
      • EdgeRIC Env (edge_ric.py)