ICSA Talk - 01/05/2026

Talk Abstract:  By implementing radio access functions in 5G/6G networks as software, separated from the underlying hardware, virtual 5G/6G Radio Access Network (RAN) architectures presents opportunities to innovate on RAN architecture. In this talk, I will present some of the work we have done to build systems and tools for vRAN. These work include per-UE baseband processing supported by a flexible fronthaul multipoint routing, in-place software updates for DU and CU, hardware acceleration of CU and support for scalable multi-access solution that can be integrated with UPF. Finally, I will briefly mention some on-going work and possible future directions.

Bio: Mun Choon CHAN graduated with a BS in Computer and Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and Ph.D. from Columbia University. He was a Member of Technical Staff in the Networking Research Laboratory, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies before joining the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2004. He is currently a Professor and Vice Dean of Graduate Studies of the School of Computing (SoC). He has published more than 140 conference/journal papers and has been awarded 7 US patents. He has won three best paper awards (ICNP 2019, SOSR 2019, ICDCN 2016) and was awarded the Facebook Networking Systems Research Award in 2019. His current research includes mobile sensing, programmable networks and 5G/6G networks.