SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING TRUST BROKER FRAMEWORK IN O-RAN

A method, performed by at least one processor of a trust broker, for establishing trust of vendor-supplied Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) software, includes: receiving a plurality of O-RAN software from a plurality of O-RAN software vendors, the plurality of O-RAN software respectively signed by...

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Hauptverfasser: KALLE, Ritesh Kumar, RAMIYA, Raghavendran
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Zusammenfassung:A method, performed by at least one processor of a trust broker, for establishing trust of vendor-supplied Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) software, includes: receiving a plurality of O-RAN software from a plurality of O-RAN software vendors, the plurality of O-RAN software respectively signed by the plurality of O-RAN software vendors; for a software, among the plurality of O-RAN software, verifying a signature included with the software using a vendor certificate issued by a certificate authority (CA) of the corresponding vendor; based on successful verification of the signature, performing a software attestation with respect to the software using a digital certificate issued by a CA of the trust broker; and providing the attested software to an operator corresponding to the O-RAN system and with which the trust broker has a trust relationship.