Solving the Post-Quantum Control Plane Bottleneck: Energy-Aware Cryptographic Scheduling in Open RAN

arXiv:2602.11820 · cs.CR, cs.SY, eess.SY · Submitted 2026-02-12 · Read on arXiv

cs.CR, cs.SY, eess.SY

Submitted: 2026-02-12

Updated: 2026-02-12

Comments: Submitted to IEEE

DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.001.2500688

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

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Energy Efficiency — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Benchmark — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Core — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Security Operations Scheduling — 3× in this paper
3GPP Specifications — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Deferral — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Discrete-Event Simulation — 2× in this paper
Reinforcement Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
While Post-Quantum Cryptography — 2× in this paper
Abstraction — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Meta-learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Pre-Shared Key — 1× in this paper
Reinforcement Learning (RL) — 1× in this paper · explained in 25 episodes
Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
Sparsity — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
Steering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communication — 1× in this paper
Unified Framework — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

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