{"ID":2893789,"CreatedAt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23.091178241Z","UpdatedAt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23.091178241Z","DeletedAt":null,"paper_url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11935","arxiv_id":"2507.11935","title":"AI-Native Open RAN for Non-Terrestrial Networks: An Overview","abstract":"Non-terrestrial network (NTN) is envisioned as a critical component of Sixth Generation (6G) networks by enabling ubiquitous services and enhancing network resilience. However, the inherent mobility and high-altitude operation of NTN pose significant challenges throughout the development and operations (DevOps) lifecycle. To address these challenges, integrating NTNs with the Open Radio Access Network (ORAN) is a promising approach, since ORAN can offer disaggregation, openness, virtualization, and embedded intelligence. Despite extensive literature on ORAN and NTN, a holistic view of ORAN-based NTN frameworks is still lacking, particularly regarding how ORAN can effectively address the existing challenges of NTN. Furthermore, although artificial intelligence native (AI-Native) capabilities have the potential to enhance intelligence network control and optimization, their practical realization in NTNs has not yet been sufficiently investigated. Therefore, in this paper, we provide a comprehensive and structured overview of AI-Native ORAN for NTN. This paper commences with an in-depth review of the existing literature and subsequently introduces the necessary background about ORAN, NTN, and AI-Native for communication. After analyzing the DevOps challenges for NTN, we propose the orchestrated AI-Native ORAN-based NTN framework and discuss its key technological enablers. Finally, we present the representative use cases and outline the prospective future research directions of this study.","short_abstract":"Non-terrestrial network (NTN) is envisioned as a critical component of Sixth Generation (6G) networks by enabling ubiquitous services and enhancing network resilience. However, the inherent mobility and high-altitude operation of NTN pose significant challenges throughout the development and operations (DevOps) lifecyc...","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11935","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.11935v3","authors":"[\"Jikang Deng\",\"S. Fizza Hassan\",\"Hui Zhou\",\"Saad Al-Ahmadi\",\"Mohamed-Slim Alouini\",\"Daniel B. Da Costa\"]","published":"2025-07-16T05:58:45Z","proceeding":"cs.NI","tasks":"[\"cs.NI\",\"cs.AI\",\"eess.SY\"]","methods":"[]","has_code":false}