Discretion and electronic communications markets: O-RAN perspective

Abstract

In the period of post-war reconstruction, an urgent issue for Ukraine will be the issue of integration into the supranational infrastructure of the European Union, including the electronic communications industry. Given the above, the research aims to reveal the impact of discretion on a digital single market in the electronic communications area. Using the dialectical general philosophical method, a current era of discretion in a post-industrial society, which is closely associated with a large-scale digitalization of all processes of building new models of technical solutions in the context of revolutionary standalone, evolutionary non-standalone, compromise approaches, is presented. Using the specific scientific system-structural method, the structure of the Open Radio Access Network framework for the convergence of the electronic communications market, such as open internal RAN stack interfaces (HTTP Live Streaming; Lan-Like Switching), open Northbound interfaces (management, optimization, orchestration), open interfaces for hardware and software disaggregation (vRAN functions running on Network Functions Virtualization Infrastructure), was demonstrated. The evolution of RAN has gained special attention in the context of openness and virtualization, using the general scientific formal empirical method of comparison, based on a combination of Open Radio Access Network and Cloud Radio Access Network regarding vRAN as a key enabling technology. The practical value of the results is that key issues of legal policy and the prospects of its coordination with revolutionary transborder processes of building a coherent GAIA-X network ecosystem based on a new generation communication technology have been revealed, including privacy, justice and non-discrimination, responsibility, consistency with human rights