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International Open RAN Symposia (IORS)
The International Open RAN Symposia (IORS) provides a forum, via email lists, virtual meetings, and face-to-face meetings, for Open RAN experts to exchange information, work together on common goals, and create a community of practice for consistent, repeatable, Open RAN testing.
Working Methods
- Subscribe to IORS mailing lists
- Review IORS meeting etiquette
- Register 2 weeks before virtual meetings
Future Meetings
IORS is organizing a series of virtual meetings and hybrid in-person/virtual meetings, culminating in a face-to-face IORS meeting in the fall of 2025. IORS is open to US Foreign assistance eligible countries. If you have questions, contact us directly at iors@ntia.gov.
Click on the meeting name for details. No admittance fees. Registration closes 2 weeks before each event.
- June 11, 2025: "Key performance indicators and quality of experience"
- Virtual meeting, 2 hours
- Led by the Chairs of the Video Quality Experts Group (VQEG) 5G Key Performance Indicators project.
- Fall or Winter 2025, "IORS meeting"
- 3 day in-person meeting
- Location to be announced
The following topics will be rescheduled for virtual meetings or moved to the in-person IORS meeting in the fall. Let us know what topics you would like to discuss or present by sending an email to iors@ntia.gov
- "Improving test plans"
- Led by Lincoln Lavoie (University of New Hampshire, UNH-IOL)
- "Stages of testing, progress, and missing pieces"
- Led by Eng Wei Koo (Keysight Technologies)
- "Lessons learned in Open RAN system integration"
- Led by Tim Thompson (NTIA/ITS)
- Feedback from NTIA/ITS, SONIC UK, and ITRI
One goal of IORS is to organize specific lab testing projects. Of particular interest are open, collaborative efforts that leverage resources from multiple organizations to establish general solutions, and collaborative testing efforts between labs in established countries and emerging economies.
Past Meetings
Select past meeting links to access video recordings, agendas, and informative links.
- "Experiences in lab peer review and procedure harmonization for inter-lab and tool-independent reproducibility in O-RAN testing", May 19, 2025, virtual meeting led by Andreas Gladisch (Deutsche Telekom, i14y Lab), Carsten Rossenhövel (EANTC, i14y Lab), and Ian Wong (VIAVI Solutions, VALOR)
- "Lab-to-lab collaboration inventory", December 3, 2024, virtual meeting led by Martin Skorupski (highstreet Technologies)
- "IORS 2024", September 17-19, hosted by NTIA/OIA in Golden, Colorado, USA.