OpenRheinMain Conference, 27 September 2024, Darmstadt, Germany

For the third consecutive year, UNIBERG will be a Bronze sponsor at the upcoming OpenRheinMain Conference, taking place in Darmstadt on September 27, 2024.

The event promises to be an enriching experience, bringing together tech enthusiasts, professionals, and students to explore the latest trends in Open Source and New IT. The UNIBERG team looks forward to meeting you at our booth in the entrance hall. Attendees will have the opportunity to gain insights into UNIBERG’s innovative projects and discover the diverse range of career possibilities we offer, from internships to working student positions.

We are also excited to contribute to the agenda with presentations from our team members.

Anomaly Detection and Root Cause Analysis in Big Networks

Speaker: Volker Schmidt, Data Engineer and Mathematician
Room: C20/4
Time: 11:45
Abstract: Large scale telco networks are expected to provide uninterrupted service for private as well as commercial applications. Thus it is vital that they are monitored in real-time to detect and resolve issues as soon as possible. This is a demanding task for operations teams and would be all but impossible without the help of automated tools.

In this talk, we will see how statistical methods help operators by detecting anomalies in a stream of logs and metrics. Models are trained in an unsupervised setting to fit the distribution of input data over time. These are used to mark low probability events as outliers and assign them a degree of severity. Anomalies are annotated and correlated with information from neighbouring systems. We will see examples of how such domain knowledge about the network hierarchy can help operators to track down the underlying root cause.

eSIM Technology in Private 5G Networks

Speaker: David Bauer, Software Developer
Room: C20/4
Time: 13:30
Abstract: Private 5G networks are based on the same technologies that have been used to build mobile networks for 30 years. User devices typically use SIM card technology for authentication in both private and public networks.

The ongoing shift towards eSIM technology presents new challenges for operators of private 5G networks, especially in constellations where devices are expected to connect to multiple different 5G networks.

This presentation aims to explain the basics of the technology, the challenges in addressing these issues and possible solutions.

Impressions from OPENRHEINMAIN Conference 2023