arxivcs.CRcs.LG2026-07-07
ORAN-DEFEND: Subspace Detection and Sanitization of Backdoor DRL xApps in Open RAN
Md Raihan Uddin, Fatemeh Lotfi, Tolunay Seyfi, Fatemeh Afghah
Open Radio Access Networks (O-RAN) increasingly delegate near-real-time control to deep reinforcement learning (DRL) xApps obtained from third-party vendors, creating a new supply-chain attack surface. A backdoor policy behaves optimally until an adversary injects a covert trigge…