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CTL Staff Advance O-RAN Standards
NIST contributions to O-RAN security, testing, RAN intelligent control, systems management and orchestration
- NIST is working with industry in the O-RAN Alliance to significantly enhance the quality and utility of their product testing program, integrate principles of zero trust security throughout their RAN standards, and develop use cases and supporting standards to enable the use of RAN intelligent control to improve resilience.
CTL staff made several technical contributions to the O-RAN Alliance face-to-face meeting on February 24-28 in the areas of security, testing, and RAN intelligent control. NIST contributions on security focused on zero trust architecture, continuous monitoring, systems management and orchestration, and the transition to post-quantum cryptography. NIST contributions on testing focused on the definition of a new Security Assurance Program and the incorporation of Implementation Conformance Statements for security requirements. NIST contributions on RAN intelligent control focused on enhancing service models and controls necessary to support interference mitigation use cases. CTL staff contributing to the meeting included Scott Rose, Oliver Borchert, Simeon Wuthier, Wesley Garey, and Doug Montgomery.
For more information see: O-RAN Research at NIST
