What exactly is RIC in RAN and what does an RIC engineer do?

Hi, I keep hearing the term RIC in some telco job titles? What is it? And what is the work
scope of an RIC engineer?

Thanks in advance.

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RIC > Remote/RAN Integration & Configuration

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RIC is the acronym of "RAN INTELLIGENT CONTROLLER’’ is a kind of son function which is support for all G as 1g/2g/3g/4h/5g…So on, and will work for the CU as well as for DU in near real time and non real time functionality optimizations.

It’s RADIO INTELLIGENT CONTROLLER. RIC is basically responsible for all RAN operation and optimization procedure like radio connection management, mobility management, QoS management , edge services, and interference management, radio resource management, higher layer procedure optimization, policy optimization in RAN, and providing guidance, parameters, policies and AI/ML models to support the best effective network operation.