Last 16 to 18 June, the first 5G OpenRAN Hackaton (OpenRanHack) was celebrated in Madrid under the leading of IBM and in cooperation with Telefonica, Red Hat, and Viewnext. Three universities of Madrid: UPM, Carlos III and Rey Juan Carlos were invited to present a contending team. Our researching group did a call between students of UPMTeleco-Campus Sur and a team with 5 students was formed for the competition, named “Wave Warriors”. Three junior researchers of GRC-UPM were among these five. As a result, “Wave Warriors” was finally ranked 2 after a brilliant work.

The competition consisted on developing a container network function (CNF) to provide an end-to-end solution in an OpenRAN environment, by using service orchestration and automation platforms (SOAPs) like Openshift, Cloud Pack 4 Network Automation, and Ansible.

“Wave Warriors” successfully developed and deployed four CNFs, so achieving all the requirements, and presenting the solution to an evaluation committee formed by top managers of the aforementioned companies.