VeraRAN: Pre-Actuation Certification and Event-Causal Synchronization Repair for Asynchronous Multi-Interface RAN Plans
TL;DR
VeraRAN is introduced, which checks plans before actuation by modeling request, delivery, acceptance, application, completion, and observation for each action while exploring plausible delays and event orders, and MI-POR prunes independent interleavings using RAN lifecycle and resource footprints.
Abstract
Agentic RAN controllers combine mobility, energy, and resource actions across independently implemented interfaces. Even when each command is valid and the target state is safe, asynchronous actuation can drive the network through unsafe intermediate states. In a frozen study of a 35B planner, 28.8% of locally valid plans remained asynchronously unsafe. We introduce VeraRAN, which checks plans before actuation by modeling request, delivery, acceptance, application, completion, and observation for each action while exploring plausible delays and event orders. When VeraRAN finds a counterexample, VeraSync inserts versioned event barriers and rechecks the repaired plan for safety and completion. MI-POR prunes independent interleavings using RAN lifecycle and resource footprints. In a post-freeze stratified confirmation within the declared repair domain, VeraSync re-certified every confirmation plan while leaving 87% of action pairs unordered. MI-POR matched exact search in a property-stratified audit and reduced explored states by 94.6-95.0% on 20-40-action plans. Native ns-O-RAN replay and an independent live E2 audit showed why distinguishing these events matters: acceptance may precede the authoritative state transition, so dependent actions must wait for direct APPLY evidence or a contract-backed completion event causally downstream of APPLY.