SLICES-RI / CONVERGE Summer School – June 2025

Hands-On Introduction to Open RAN: Setting Up a 5G Network with Open Source Components by Merim Dzaferagic

This week June 25–27, 2025, students in SLICES-RI / CONVERGE Summer School participated in hands-on workshop where they managed to:

  1. Set up a basic 5G network using open-source tools like srsRAN, Open5GS, FlexRIC, and O-RAN SC RIC
  2. Understand key concepts like Open RAN architecture and the CU/DU split
  3. Deploy a basic xApp
  4. Collect and analyze real network data from experiments

Goal was to give a practical, end-to-end perspective on Open RAN and 5G systems — not just theory, but actual lab work that mirrors real-world deployments.

Big thanks to Merim Džaferagić and Serge Fdida as well as wider SLICES-RI and CONVERGE teams for empowering the next generation of network innovators!

See LinkedIn Post.