Andre Puschmann
Andre Puschmann

father, FOSS enthusiast, software radio engineer

Software Radio Systems

About Me

I am an engineer by heart and passionate about making srsLTE/srsRAN/OCUDU the most reliable and trusted RAN stack on earth.

Over the past years, I’ve worked on various 4G/5G/xG-related projects, both as active developer, leading engineer and/or project manager.

Prior to helping to build commercial RAN stacks, I was working as a postdoctoral researcher at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland and Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany.

I am involved in open-source software development for over two decades.

Interests
  • 4G/5G/xG-based cellular networks and software radios
  • (Open-)RAN architectures and protocols
  • Software quality assurance and test and validation methods
  • Embedded real-time systems and operating system design
Education

  • Dr.-Ing. (Computer Engineering), 2015

    Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany

  • Dipl.-Inf. (Computer Science), 2009

    Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany

Recent & Upcoming Talks

Panel - Challenges and solutions for energy efficiency in Open RAN

Next-generation networks promise revolutionary capabilities, including ultra-low latency, high data rates, and ubiquitous connectivity. However, these goals can only be achieved by improving network capacity, reliability, and latency, which in turn requires using larger bandwidth and especially a tenfold to hundredfold increase in the number of mobile access points. Improving energy efficiency becomes of paramount importance to keep this growth sustainable, as the Radio Access Network (RAN) uses 70-80% of the total energy consumption of cellular networks. Energy needs to be saved both horizontally (end-to-end from user to cloud) and vertically across all levels, from hardware chips to infrastructure deployments and software. In virtualized RANs, energy efficiency need to be developed across the different components at the RU, in the DU and CU implementation, making use of hardware acceleration and use of low power states in the general purpose processors; in the implementation of energy-efficient schedulers; and in the orchestration of the RAN cloud. In addition, ORAN brings the additional challenge of coordinating and synchronizing these energy-saving approaches. This session brings together vendors involved in the development of different parts of the ORAN chain to discuss current challenges and possible solutions ahead.

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Recent Publications
Andre Puschmann, Roth-Mandutz, Elke, Soleymani, Dariush M., A. Mitschele-Thiel, Mückenheim, Jens (2017). Transceiver, method and computer program for radio resource distribution.
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Andre Puschmann, P. D. Sutton, I. M. Gomez (2017). Implementing NB-IoT in Software – Experiences Using the srsLTE Library. Wireless Innovation Forum European Conference.
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F. Paisana, A. Selim, M. Kist, P. Alvarez, J. Tallon, C. Bluemm, Andre Puschmann, L. DaSilva (2017). Context-aware Cognitive Radio Using Deep Learning.
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P. Schulz, M. Matthe, H. Klessig, M. Simsek, G. Fettweis, J. Ansari, S. Ashraf, B. Almeroth, J. Voigt, I. Riedel, Andre Puschmann, A. Mitschele-Thiel, M. Müller, T. Elste, M. Windisch (2017). Latency Critical IoT Applications in 5G: Perspective on the Design of Radio Interface and Network Architecture. In IEEE Communications Magazine.
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Z. M. Shaik, Andre Puschmann, A. Mitschele-Thiel (2016). Self-Optimization of Software Defined Radios Through Evolutionary Algorithms.
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