A Survey on Open-Source-Defined Wireless Networks: Framework, Key Technology, and Implementation
Liqiang Zhao, Muhammad Muhammad Bala, Wu Gang, Pan Chengkang, Yuan, Yannan, Tian Zhigang, Yu-Chee Tseng, Chen Xiang, Bin Shen, and Chih-Lin I

TL;DR
This survey reviews open-source wireless networks, covering frameworks, key technologies, and implementations, highlighting challenges, security issues, and future research directions in the evolving 5G and 6G landscape.
Contribution
It provides a comprehensive overview of open-source wireless network frameworks, technologies, and implementations, including lessons learned and future research challenges.
Findings
Classification of frameworks into black-box, grey-box, and white-box
Analysis of open-source core network and radio access network efforts
Identification of security threats and open research issues
Abstract
The realization of open-source-defined wireless networks in the telecommunication domain is accomplished through the fifth-generation network (5G). In contrast to its predecessors (3G and 4G), the 5G network can support a wide variety of heterogeneous use cases with challenging requirements from both the Internet and the Internet of Things (IoT). The future sixth-generation (6G) network will not only extend 5G capabilities but also innovate new functionalities to address emerging academic and engineering challenges. The research community has identified these challenges could be overcome by open-source-defined wireless networks, which is based on open-source software and hardware. In this survey, we present an overview of different aspects of open-source-defined wireless networks, comprising motivation, frameworks, key technologies, and implementation. We start by introducing the…
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Taxonomy
TopicsIoT and Edge/Fog Computing · Software-Defined Networks and 5G · Caching and Content Delivery
