Nex-G Innovations

• Overview of Rust Language
• Why Rust for telecom (memory safety, zero-cost abstractions, concurrency)
• Comparison with C/C++ in RAN workloads
• Where Rust fits in 5G/ORAN software stack (e.g., near-RT RIC, O-DU, MEC)

• Ownership, Borrowing, and Lifetimes
• Data types and Pattern Matching
• Error handling (Result, Option)
• Traits, Structs, and Enums
• Modules and Crates
• Hands-on exercises

• Memory-safe systems programming
• Low-level IO and concurrency (Threads, async/await)
• Working with tokio for asynchronous programming
• Performance tuning and benchmarking Rust code
• Interfacing with C libraries (FFI)

• 5G RAN evolution & ORAN Alliance overview
• ORAN Functional splits (O-RU, O-DU, O-CU)
• Service Management and Orchestration (SMO)
• Near-RT RIC and xApps
• Key interfaces (E2, A1, O1, F1, etc.)

• Writing high-performance RIC xApps in Rust
• Implementing E2 nodes or protocol handlers
• Using Rust for MEC & packet processing (DPDK with Rust bindings)
• Building telemetry modules in SMO

• Rust in CI/CD pipelines for telecom
• Writing unit and integration tests
• Containerizing Rust applications for RIC/SMO using Docker
• Performance benchmarking with criterion
• Rust integration in O-RAN software stacks (O-RAN SC, ONAP)

• tokio, async-std – Async runtimes
• serde, reqwest, tonic – Data serialization, HTTP, gRPC
• dpdk-rs, neli – Network packet processing
• bindgen, cxx – C bindings
• wasmtime, wasmer – WebAssembly for xApp portability (optional)

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