E2E Network Slicing Meeting Notes for Sep 13, 2021
Date: Jun 13, 2021
Participants
@Ahila P
@Alex D
@Aniello Paolo Malinconico
@Alessandro D'Alessandro
@Borislav Glozman
@Deepika S
@Dong Wang
@Emmanuelle Delfour
@Fei Zhang (Ericsson)
@Klaus Negle
@marcin krasowski
@Raffaele Passannanti
@Rajendra Mishra
@Saravanan Ayyadurai
@Timo Perala
@Yogendra Pal
Agenda
E2E Testing Status - Service Activation/Deactivation, Termination
Istanbul Release - Integration Testing Preparation & Contribution
Requirements planning for Jakarta release
Update on action items from the previous meeting
AOB?
Notes and Actions
Elaborate the J-Release requirements - @Ahila P
Config DB issues - @Alessandro D'Alessandro to send a mail with the issues faced
E2E Slice instance creation - Core NSSMF - CBA package correct version - @Deepika S to share the correct version of CBA package, TN and RAN NSSMF - @Alessandro D'Alessandro to check and report if the same issue persists for TN & RAN NFs
TN NSSMF - Call from SDN-R to AAI to retrieve RAN NFs returns improper result. @Alessandro D'Alessandro to share the details in mail
M4 update - 1. Integration test cases are updated at R9 Integration Testing 2. Documentation - In Progress
J-release Requirements:
S.No | Requirements | Description | Type | Priority | Owner | Organization | Contributors | Comments |
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1 | Support for mMTC, uRLLC Slices | eMBB slice type is supported in the previous release. This requirement is to accommodate the modification in the existing system to support mMTC and uRLLC performance requirements. | Enhancement | 1 | Ahila | Wipro |
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2 | Activate, Deactivate flows support in external RAN NSSMF | To support the activate and deactivate actions in E2E Network Slicing with External NSSMFs (option2). Currently, instantiation and termination are supported. | Enhancement | 2 | Yogendra | Aarna Networks |
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3 | Capacity based NSI/NSSI Selection | In case of shared scenario (reuse existing slice), NSI/NSSI can be shareable only if sufficient resources are available in the network. OOF should return the solution for NSI/NSSI selection based on this criteria. | New | 2 | Ahila | Wipro |
| How to calculate the RAN NFs capacity? |
4 | Core, RAN Endpoints Discovery at NSMF | Hardcoded RAN and CN endpoints are used in the previous releases. Discover the Core and RAN endpoints from the network and fed it to TN NSSMF | New | 1 | Ahila | Wipro |
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5 | NSI Selection based on the coverage Area | eMBB or mMTC like service parameters. with coverageArea more than what is already supported in a suitable existing and shareable NSI Sharing allowed
| Enhancement | 1 | Ahila | Wipro |
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6 | IBN based E2E Slicing | Communication service request is given as business intent and it should be integrated with the existing E2E slice flow. | New | 3 | Dong Wang | China Telecom |
| Descoped for this release |
7 | CSIT Continuation (SO, SDN-R) | CSIT test cases for SO and SDNC component testing | Carry forward | 1 | Ahila | Wipro |
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8 | Use case Automation | E2E network Slicing use case test automation | New | 1 | Ahila | Wipro |
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9 | Populate sNSSAI in the UUI to complete the pending actions | Enable the user to select the sNSSAIs in UUI to complete the pending actions pertaining to that Slice | New | 2 |
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| Proposed by Yogendra. Under discussion |
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1 | cm-handle registration with CPS-DMI Plugin - Integration | cm-handle should be registered with CPS for every RAN NF instance. Karaf feature to do the registration is completed in I-release, integration with CPS is planned for J-release | New | 1 | Ahila | Wipro |
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2 | Instantiation of RAN NFs and initial configuration | RAN Network Functions (CUCP, CUUP, DU) are assumed as pre-instantiated and pre-configured since Guilin release. This needs to be created/instantiated as VNFs/CNFs | New | 3 |
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| Owner not identified yet. |
3 | CPS Integration with SDN-R | RANSlice allocate and reconfigure rpcs to be integrated with CPS for RAN configurations persistence | Carry forward | 1 | Ahila | Wipro |
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4 | CPS Integration Stabilization | Validate and bug fix of CPS integration for RAN slice lifecycle | Carry forward | 1 | Ahila | Wipro |
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5 | CPS-TBDMT enhancement to integrate with NCMP | CPS Core is directly invoked from TBDMT. The call should go via NCMP to CPS-Core | Enhancement | 1 | Ahila | Wipro |
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1 | ETSI aligned Core NSSMF | Leverage Core NSSMF to be in an alignment with SOL-005 APIs while supporting the existing Non-ETSI (3GPP) interfaces | New | 3 |
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2 | New NFs are not getting instantiated for allocateNSSI request having same NSST | Not able to create more than one non-shared Core Slice. It needs a fix at ExtAPI/NBI | Enhancement | 1 |
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| Cannot be done, as ExtAPI is in unmaintained state |
3 | CSIT for core slicing | CSIT test cases for Core NSSMF |
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1 | Support for modify-deallocate in TN-NSSMF |
| Enhancement | 1 | Henry Yu | Huawei |
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2 | TN NSSMF enhancements according to IETF latest specification |
| Enhancement | 3 | Henry Yu | Huawei |
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3 | Implementing the call to OOF (SelectNSSI API) for allocateNSSI (to enable TN NSSI reuse even when NSI is created newly) in TN NSSMF |
| New | 1 | Henry Yu | Huawei |
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4 | Implement the call to OOF (terminateNxi API) for deallocate NSSI (to enable TN NSSI NOT terminated even when NSI is terminated) in TN NSSMF |
| New | 1 | Henry Yu | Huawei |
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5 | CSIT for transport slicing |
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| 1 | Henry Yu | Huawei |
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6 | Transport Slicing enhancement to support IBN based E2E slicing |
| New | 1 | Henry Yu | Huawei |
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7 | Closed-loop enhancement in CCVPN to support Transport Slicing’s closed-loop |
| New | 1 | Henry Yu | Huawei |
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1 | IBN based Closed loop | Make use of intents/ML models for closed loop | New | 3 | Dong Wang | China Telecom |
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2 | Closed loop updates over A1 interface - enhancements | Done at POC level in I-release. It will be further enhanced to make use of A1-PMS for A1 policy instance creation and requires RAN Simulator enhancements | Enhancement | 1 | Ahila | Wipro |
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3 | CPS Integration Stabilization | Validate and enhance CPS integration for closed loop | Carry forward | 1 | Ahila | Wipro |
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1 | KPI Computation MS Remaining Requirements (Mark Scott’s comments) | Carry forward | 1 | Ahila | Wipro |
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