Honolulu Requirements

Owned by Swaminathan Seetharaman
Last updated: Nov 16, 2020
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Functional view

Note: Priority 1 items are proposed to be part of Honolulu. Priority 2 items will be considered as "Stretch goals".

Track

Details

Impacted Component(s)

Companies

Priority

Track

Details

Impacted Component(s)

Companies

Priority

Guilin functional enhancements




Completion of remaining Guilin Integration Tests, fixing of related bugs (across all tracks)

UUI, SO, OOF, SDN-C/CCSDK, DCAE, Policy, ExtAPI

CMCC, Wipro, Tech Mahindra, TIM, Huawei, LTTS

1

Endpoint related enhancements (NSMF, RAN/Core/TN NSSMF)

UUI, SO, OOF, SDN-C/CCSDK

CMCC, Wipro, Tech Mahindra, TIM, Huawei

1

3GPP API alignment (Service/Slice Profile - e.g., coverageArea and coverageAreaTAList), modeling enhancements, minor workflow enhancements for NSMF, all 3 NSSMFs and NSSMF adaptor for e2e network slice

SO, AAI

CMCC, Wipro, Tech Mahindra, Huawei

1

NST selection enhancement

OOF

Huawei, Wipro

1

Use of resource occupancy levels in NSI/NSSI for NSI/NSSI selection (involves collecting and storing/analyzing the data, and then using this info for NSI/NSSI selection) (ArchCom)

DCAE (to be confirmed), SO, OOF

Wipro

2

TMF 641 alignment for Slice LCM

UUI

CMCC

2

RAN Slicing





A1 interface for Closed Loop and Intelligent Slicing

SDN-R/CCSDK

Wipro, IBM

1

RAN Slice resource (re)allocation, Slice profile decomposition at Near-RT RIC level

SDN-R/CCSDK, OOF

Wipro, IBM

1

Coverage Area to TA mapping

SO/OOF?

Wipro

1

RAN Service enhancements, including service instantiation actions

SO, SDN-R/CCSDK

Wipro

2

3GPP specs related enhancements including yang updates

SDN-R/CCSDK

Wipro, IBM

2

Use of CPS instead of Config DB

SDN-R, DCAE

Wipro, IBM

2

Core Slicing

Enhancements to Core NF configuration

SO, CDS

Tech Mahindra, TIM

1

Core NF placement

SO, OOF

Tech Mahindra, Wipro

2

Transport Slicing

Enhancements related to TN NSSI reuse, considering occupancy levels, modification of associated NSSI with SLA, etc.

SO, SDN-C/CCSDK

Huawei

1

TN model enhancements, alignment to SDOs

SO, AAI, SDN-C

Huawei

2

Support of MP to MP connection

SO, OOF, SDN-C

Huawei, Wipro

2

KPI Monitoring

Complete PM-mapper/new MS with all required functionality for KPI computation (ArchCom)

DCAE

CMCC

1

Computation of KPIs at NSI/NSSI level, policy-driven list of KPIs

DCAE

CMCC

2

Retrieval of historic KPI values for Closed Loop and by UUI

DCAE

CMCC, Wipro

2

TMF 628 API support for KPI monitoring (ArchCom)

ExtAPI, UUI

Wipro

2

Aggregator function (to aggregate data from all NFs of same type, otherwise KPI computation logic to be refined) (ArchCom)

???

???

2

Closed Loop

Closed Loop scenario involving RAN and Core - details being worked out

SO, DCAE, SDN-R/CCSDK

Wipro (RAN, RAN Simulator), IBM (SDN-R), LTTS (Core NF Simulator)

1

Intelligent Slicing

Enhance existing scenario with Core

DCAE, SDN-R/CCSDK

Wipro, IBM

1

Modeling enhancements

  • RAN service design enhancements

  • Endpoints

  • Service and Slice Profiles

SDC, AAI, SO

CMCC, Amdocs, Wipro

1

Component view

Note: Only Priority 1 items are listed.

Component

Impacts

Commitment

Component

Impacts

Commitment

AAI

  • Guilin bugs

  • Modeling enhancements

CMCC, Huawei

SDN-C/CCSDK

  • Guilin bugs

  • TN NSSI reuse and config updates

Huawei

SDN-R/CCSDK

  • RAN resource (re)allocation

  • A1 interface support

IBM, Wipro

SO

  • Guilin bugs

  • NSMF enhancements and NSSMF workflow enhancements for all 3 subnets (mainly fixing Guilin gaps and any minor enhancements for RAN, Core, TN for e2e slice stitching), endpoints enhancements

  • CoverageArea → TA list mapping (will it be part of OOF?) (RAN)

  • RAN NSSI related enhancements (RAN)

  • Reuse of TN NSSI (TN)

  • Core NF config updates (Core)

  • Closed Loop related enhancements (RAN/NSMF)

CMCC (NSMF), Wipro (RAN NSSMF), Tech Mahindra (Core NSSMF), TIM (Core NSSMF), Huawei (TN NSSMF)

CDS

  • Core NF config updates (Core)

Tech Mahindra

OOF

  • NST selection enhancements

  • Use of endpoints for NSSI selection

  • CoverageArea → TA list mapping (will it be part of SO?)

  • TN NSSI selection enhancements (if any)

  • Generic functional enhancements (Slice profile generation, etc.)

  • RAN resource (re)allocation including Slice Profile decomposition

Wipro, Huawei

Policy

  • Guilin bugs

Wipro

ExtAPI

  • Guilin bugs

Wipro

DCAE

  • Guilin bugs

  • Enhancements in PM Mapper/New MS for KPI computation

  • DES for historic KPI retrieval

  • Enhancements in Slice Analysis MS for Closed Loop

CMCC (PM Mapper/New MS and DES)

Wipro (Slice Analysis MS)

UUI

  • Enhancements related to endpoints

CMCC

Config DB/CPS

  • Guilin bugs

  • Enhancements related to endpoints, etc.

(Note: CPS may be a stretch goal, and may be realized as a PoC)

Wipro, IBM