Paper

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  "raw_xml": "<entry>\n    <id>http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.18604v1</id>\n    <title>AutORAN: LLM-driven Natural Language Programming for Agile xApp Development</title>\n    <updated>2026-03-19T08:21:03Z</updated>\n    <link href='https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.18604v1' rel='alternate' type='text/html'/>\n    <link href='https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.18604v1' rel='related' title='pdf' type='application/pdf'/>\n    <summary>Traditional RAN systems are closed and monolithic, stifling innovation. The openness and programmability enabled by Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) are envisioned to revolutionize cellular networks with control-plane applications--xApps. The development of xApps (typically by third-party developers), however, remains time-consuming and cumbersome, often requiring months of manual coding and integration, which hinders the roll-out of new functionalities in practice. To lower the barrier of xApp development for both developers and network operators, we present AutORAN, the first LLM-driven natural language programming framework for agile xApps that automates the entire xApp development pipeline. In a nutshell, AutORAN turns high-level user intents into swiftly deployable xApps within minutes, eliminating the need for manual coding or testing. To this end, AutORAN builds a fully automated xApp generation pipeline, which integrates multiple functional modules (from user requirement elicitation, AI/ML function design and validation, to xApp synthesis and deployment). We design, implement, and comprehensively evaluate AutORAN on representative xApp tasks. Results show AutORAN-generated xApps can achieve similar or even better performance than the best known hand-crafted baselines. AutORAN drastically accelerates the xApp development cycle (from user intent elicitation to roll-out), streamlining O-RAN innovation.</summary>\n    <category scheme='http://arxiv.org/schemas/atom' term='cs.NI'/>\n    <category scheme='http://arxiv.org/schemas/atom' term='cs.AI'/>\n    <published>2026-03-19T08:21:03Z</published>\n    <arxiv:primary_category term='cs.NI'/>\n    <author>\n      <name>Xin Li</name>\n    </author>\n    <author>\n      <name>Shiming Yu</name>\n    </author>\n    <author>\n      <name>Leming Shen</name>\n    </author>\n    <author>\n      <name>Jianing Zhang</name>\n    </author>\n    <author>\n      <name>Yuanqing Zheng</name>\n    </author>\n    <author>\n      <name>Yaxiong Xie</name>\n    </author>\n  </entry>"
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