2020-12-02 Meeting notes (ONAP/O-RAN-SC/SMO - Meeting)

Martin Skorupski

Next meetings: 

2020-12-16: ???

2020-12-23: canceled 

2020-12-30: canceled

2021-01-06: Martin Skorupski

Status reports:

OSC Cherry Rapidly approaching! (Release early Dec)!

• Non-RT-RIC:
  
  
  • Please come along to OSC NONRTRIC Cherry Demo:
    
    • https://zoom.us/j/436210993

    • Friday Friday, December 4th, 2020 2:00pm (UTC Dublin)

      • 9AM EST USA, 15:00 CET Europe, 22:00 CST China, 23:00 JST Japan, 19:30 IST India, 6AM PST USA

    • Calendar: https://lists.o-ran-sc.org/g/main/viewevent?eventid=986219&calstart=2020-12-04
    • Download invite: invite.ics
    • Topics:
      • A1 Policy Management Service & A1 Controller Adapter (From ONAP)
      • A1 Enrichment Information Job Coordination Service
      • A1 Simulator
      • NONRTRIC Control Panel (A1-Policy & A1-EI)
      • NONRTRIC Test platform - testing & demonstrating end-to-end A1 interface functions & usecases.
        
        
  • Continuing with Cherry Release Prep.
  • Pushing with Integration & Deployment tasks with Felix in OOSC Integration team.
  • ONAP Honolulu reqmnt for A1 Policy functions approved through ONAP ArchCom & PTL approved. M1 expected 7thJan
  • Claudio David Gasparini Question about reuse of ONAP code in OSC at OSC TOC call: John Keeney No issue found. If there is a later divergence we will work it out then
  • Claudio David Gasparini Same for ONF? John Keeney Don't know. Have had no communications. Would welcome working together if its useful. Hopefully divergence can be avoided.
• SMO:
• SIM:
• OAM:

Swaminathan Seetharaman

ONAP H M1 extension ... 7th January?

• ONAP Usecases:
  • Please see:  Potential ONAP <-> O-RAN collaboration use cases 
  • Swaminathan S Usecases & requirments working through requirements & usecases & architecture committee. 
  • John Keeney Come see ONAP A1 Policy functions at Demo on Friday(See above)
  • John Keeney A1 Policy Functions in ONAP H passed Archcom & has PTL Approval
• ONAP Slicing Usecase:
  • Swaminathan S Hope to use the A1 interface to nearRTRIC. Come along to ONAP Slicing use case call for more info.
  • John Keeney WHich nearRTRIC will you use in that use case: Swaminathan S Not decided yet, maybe Simulator or OSC nearRTRIC.
  • John Keeney How would a nearRTRIC/RAN-CNF be deployed / stood-up? SDC, Orchestrator. Swaminathan S in Guilin all NFs are already up & running. May move to dynamic instantiation etc in Honolulu. Lots to do for modelling too in H for RU/DU/CU. Also Midhaul & Fronthaul & would need to interact with transport slicing functions .... TBC
  • Swaminathan S Will demo slicing in early Jan. Would be great to engage O-RAN folks there.
  • Swaminathan S Looking for update on Yang Model ... (Please confirm with Martin Skorupski & O-RAN WG1 team).
  • Swaminathan S Any plans in OSC for Slicing? John Keeney Don't think there is a plan in OSC Dawn to look at slicing. Will of course touch base if there is
• ONAP SON use case
  • Swaminathan S Currently SON has PCI & ANR SON functions. A simulator exists if useful for OSC. 
  • John Keeney Any plan to make the SON use case more general for other usecases? If so any way it would align with Control-Loop/Apps in ONAP or rApps in OSC?
    • Swaminathan S Should be possible for other use cases to add their own use cases following SON/Control-loop approach. Will add more usecases if they drive platform capabilities forward.
    • Swaminathan S Also hope to look at control loop interactions (Paused since Frankfurt). Also hopw to look at ML-based SON.
    • John Keeney Sounds like good options for alignment. Let's keep doors open

Please see:  Potential ONAP <-> O-RAN collaboration use cases

• Lasse Kaihlavirta CSIT in ONAP ... Disaggregating CSIT many CSIT functions out to individual projects & more granular. John Keeney Great. A1 Policy functions need to & will align more towards this in ONAP H.