Name of Use Case:

VoLTE

Use Case Authors:

AT&T, China Mobile, Huawei,  ZTE, Nokia, Jio, VMWare, Wind River, BOCO

Description:

A Mobile Service Provider (SP) plans to deploy VoLTE services based on SDN/NFV.  The SP is able to onboard the service via ONAP. Specific sub-use cases are:

• Service onboarding
• Service configuration 
• Service termination
• Auto-scaling based on fault and/or performance
• Fault detection & correlation, and auto-healing
• Data correlation and analytics to support all sub use cases
  
  

ONAP will perform those functions in a reliable way. Which includes:

• the reliability, performance and serviceability of the ONAP platform itself
• security of the ONAP platform
• policy driven configuration management using standard APIs or scripting languages like chef/ansible (stretch goal)
• automated configuration audit and change management (stretch goal)

To connect the different Data centers ONAP will also have to interface with legacy systems and physical function to establish VPN connectivity in a brown field deployment.

Users and Benefit:

SPs benefit from VoLTE use case in the following aspects:

1. service agility: more easy design of both VNF and network service, VNF onboarding, and agile service deployment.
2. resource efficiency: through ONAP platform, the resource can be utilized more efficiently, as the services are deployed and scaled automatically on demand.
3. operation automation and intelligence: through ONAP platform, especially integration with DCAE and policy framework, VoLTE VNFs and the service as a whole are expected to be managed with much less human interference and therefore will be more robust and intelligent.

VoLTE users benefit from the network service provided by SPs via ONAP, as their user experience will be improved, especially during the peak period of traffic

VNF:

Utilize vendors VNFs in the ONAP platform.

Note: The above captures the currently committed VNF providers, we are open to adding more VNF providers.

Note: The committed VNF providers will be responsible for providing support for licensing and technical assistance for VNF interowrking issues, while the core ONAP usecase testing team will be focused on platform validation. 

NFVI+VIM:

Utilize vendors NFVI+VIMs in the ONAP platform.

Note: The above captures the currently committed VIM providers, we are open to adding more VIM providers.

Note: The committed VIM providers will be responsible for providing support for licensing and technical assistance for VIM integration issues, while the core ONAP usecase testing team will be focused on platform validation. 

Network equipment

Network equipment vendors.

Note: The above captures the currently committed HW providers, we are open to adding more HW providers.

Note: The committed HW providers will be responsible for providing support for licensing and technical assistance for HW integration issues, while the core ONAP usecase testing team will be focused on platform validation. 

Topology Diagram:

Work Flows:

Customer ordering

• Design
  
• Instantiation

• VNF Auto-Scaling/Auto-healing
  
  
  
• Termination

Controll Automation:

Open Loop

• Auto ticket creation based on the policy (stretch goal)

Closed Loop

• Auto-scaling (stretch goal)

When a large-scale event, like concert, contest, is coming, the service traffic may increase continuously, the monitoring data of service may grow higher, or other similar things make the virtual resources located in TIC edge become resource-constrained. ONAP should automatically trigger VNF actions to horizontal scale out to add more virtual resource on data plane to cope with the traffic. On the contrary, when the event is done, which means the traffic goes down, ONAP should trigger VNF actions to scale in to reduce resource.

• Fault detection & correlation, and auto-healing

During the utilization of VoLTE service, faults alarms can be issued at various layers of the system, including hardware, resource and service layers. ONAP should detect these fault alarms and report to the system to do the alarm correlation to identify the root cause of a series of alarms and do the correction actions for auto healing accordingly.

After the fault detected and its root correlated, ONAP should do the auto-healing action as specified by a given policy to make the system back to normal.

Configuration flows (Stretch goal)

• Create (or onboard vendor provided) application configuration Gold standard (files) in Chef/Ansible server
• Create Chef cookbook or Ansible playbook (or onboard vendor provided artifacts) to audit and optionally update configuration on the VNF VM(s)
• Install the Chef client on the VM (Ansible doesn’t requires)
• After every upgrade or once application misconfiguration is detected, trigger auditing with update option to update configuration based on the Gold Standards
• Post-audit update, re-run audit, run healthcheck to verify application is running as expected
• Provide configuration change alert to Operation via control loop dashboard

Platform Requirements:

• Support for commercial VNFs
• Support for commercial S-VNFM/EMS
• Support for Multiple Cloud Infrastructure Platforms or VIMs
• Cross-DC NFV and SDN orchestration
• Telemetry collection for both resource and service layer
• Fault correlation application
• Policy for scaling/healing

Project Impact:

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• Modeling
  Modeling will need to be added to describe how VNFs are to be instantiated, removed, healed (restart, rebuild), scaled, how metrics related are gathered, how events are received
  Modeling will need to be added to describe the connection service (underlay/overlay) between cloud Edge and Core.

• SDC
  Add logic to use the new modeling when designing the service, and then distribute the resulting artifacts
• SO
  Add logic to understand the new artifacts; orchestrate/manage changes according to it
• SDN-C/SDN Agent
  Add logic to support to provision the underlay and overlay connection service between clouds, including 3^rd party commercial SDN controllers. 
• DCAE
  Support statistics collection on the VoLTE case and receipt of events as per the new model
• VNF
  Support to integrate with S-VNFM/S-EMS to fulfill the NS lifecycle management and configuration.

• VF-C and DCAE
  Support the above control loops
• SO/SDN-C/SDN Agent/VF-C
  Monitor the service to verify the all NSs/VNFs have been executed, and update A&AI. 
• A&AI
  Support the new data model
• Policy
  Support new policy related to the scaling and healing in VoLTE use case
• Multi-VIM
  Support multiple VIMs 
• Holmes
• CLAMP
• OOM
• MSB

Priorities:

1 means the highest priority.

Work Commitment:

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