Radio event detection and processing in communications systems

A method comprising:

• obtaining, using a specified protocol of a radio access network, low-level signal data corresponding to a radio frequency (RF) signal processed in the radio access network;
• executing at least one machine learning network in computing hardware executing a distributed unit (DU) of the radio access network, wherein executing the at least one machine learning network comprises providing the low-level signal data as input to the at least one machine learning network;
• in response to providing the low-level signal data as input to the at least one machine learning network, obtaining as an output of the at least one machine learning network, metadata providing information on one or more characteristics of the RF signal;
• and
• controlling an operation of the radio access network based on the metadata.