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This paper introduces AutORAN, a framework that leverages LLMs to automate the development of O-RAN xApps from natural language user intents. AutORAN integrates modules for requirement elicitation, AI/ML function design, xApp synthesis, and deployment, significantly reducing development time. Experiments demonstrate that AutORAN-generated xApps achieve performance comparable to or exceeding handcrafted baselines, streamlining O-RAN innovation.
Forget months of manual coding: AutORAN lets you build and deploy O-RAN xApps from natural language in minutes.
Traditional RAN systems are closed and monolithic, stifling innovation. The openness and programmability enabled by Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) are envisioned to revolutionize cellular networks with control-plane applications--xApps. The development of xApps (typically by third-party developers), however, remains time-consuming and cumbersome, often requiring months of manual coding and integration, which hinders the roll-out of new functionalities in practice. To lower the barrier of xApp development for both developers and network operators, we present AutORAN, the first LLM-driven natural language programming framework for agile xApps that automates the entire xApp development pipeline. In a nutshell, AutORAN turns high-level user intents into swiftly deployable xApps within minutes, eliminating the need for manual coding or testing. To this end, AutORAN builds a fully automated xApp generation pipeline, which integrates multiple functional modules (from user requirement elicitation, AI/ML function design and validation, to xApp synthesis and deployment). We design, implement, and comprehensively evaluate AutORAN on representative xApp tasks. Results show AutORAN-generated xApps can achieve similar or even better performance than the best known hand-crafted baselines. AutORAN drastically accelerates the xApp development cycle (from user intent elicitation to roll-out), streamlining O-RAN innovation.
