Provisioning RAN as a Service (RANaaS) Connectivity in an Optical Metro Network Through NETCONF and YANG

This study experimentally proves the capability of vendor-neutral implementation of a Mobile Transport and Computing Platform (5GT-MTP) to interconnect Virtual Radio Access Network (V-RAN) elements, such as virtual Distributed Unit (vDU) and virtual Central Unit (vCU), in a RANaaS scenario.