Reference Tools

3GPP RAN and Core Platforms

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The project provides configurations, scripts, and integration guides for standing up 3GPP-compliant RAN and Core (5G Core, 5GC) stacks, forming the network infrastructure layer on which the other 5G-MAG reference tools run. It is useful for developers who need a complete 5G system to validate end-to-end media delivery pipelines. 5G-MAG builds these platforms on established open-source projects (Open5GS for the core, srsRAN for the radio) so members can reproduce a working network without commercial equipment. For the fork mapping and full technical detail, see Implementation Detail.

What's Built

4 repositories make up this project — the 5G-MAG forks of Open5GS and srsRAN, listed below.

Repositories

The real code behind this project, with each repository's latest release.

Implementation Detail

Which fork to use for which delivery technology.

Call to Try

Build and test it yourself, with the tutorials.

Developer Updates

Community stats and open pull requests.

Standards implemented

3GPP

Specifications referenced: 3GPP TS 38.300 (NR overall description), TS 23.501 (5G System architecture), TS 38.401 (NG-RAN architecture and interfaces).

Contributors & How to Contribute

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Repositories & Releases

5G-MAG's fork of Open5GSopen5gs

IssuesPull RequestsReleases

5G-MAG maintains a fork of open5gs for the development and adaptation of 5GC network functions to support other Reference Tools.

Standards3GPPRuns onLinuxDepends onOpen5GSLicenseAGPLv3.0

Latest release: v0.1.4-5mbs-v2.7.2-o5gs · 2026-07-14 · 13w ago

5G-MAG's fork of srsRAN (discontinued version prior to srsRAN_4G)srsRAN

IssuesPull RequestsReleases

Fork of the discontinued srsRAN suite, kept for reference. Superseded by srsRAN_4G for LTE and by rt-srsRAN_Project for 5G NR.

Standards3GPPRuns onLinuxDepends onsrsRANLicenseAGPLv3.0

5G-MAG's fork of srsRAN Projectrt-srsRAN_Project

IssuesPull RequestsReleases

5G-MAG maintains a fork of srsRAN_Project for the development and adaptation of NG-RAN procedures to support other Reference Tools.

Standards3GPPRuns onLinuxDepends onsrsRANLicenseAGPLv3.0

5G-MAG's fork of srsRAN_4GsrsRAN_4G

IssuesPull RequestsReleases

5G-MAG maintains a fork of srsRAN_4G for the development and adaptation of NG-RAN procedures to support other Reference Tools.

Standards3GPPRuns onLinuxDepends onsrsRANLicenseAGPLv3.0

Developer Updates

Last Synced: 2026-10-10 02:53 UTC

Repository	Stars	Forks	Views (Total)	Clones (unique per day)	Activity
srsRAN_4G	5	2	123	22	Active
srsRAN	4	6	52	8	Active
rt-srsRAN_Project	4	3	332	5	Quiet
open5gs	5	8	786	199	Active

Open Pull Requests

srsRAN_4Gphch: estimate the pre-FEC bit error rate of decoded DL-SCH code blocksReady#6 · 1w ago

srsRAN_4Gdocs: apply the 5G-MAG README formatReady#5 · 1w ago

srsRANdocs: apply the 5G-MAG README formatReady#10 · 1w ago

srsRAN_4GFembms update for rt-mbms-modem release 16Ready#4 · 14w ago

Unlike the other reference tools, these platforms are forks that track their own upstream projects (Open5GS, srsRAN) rather than a dedicated 5G-MAG feature roadmap — see Implementation Detail for the fork mapping that serves as this project's own roadmap.