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E2E Network Slicing Meeting Notes for Sep 13, 2021

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

  1. E2E Testing Status - Service Activation/Deactivation, Termination

  2. Istanbul Release - Integration Testing Preparation & Contribution

  3. Requirements planning for Jakarta release

  4. Update on action items from the previous meeting

  5. AOB?

Notes and Actions

  1. Elaborate the J-Release requirements - @Ahila P 

  2. Config DB issues - @Alessandro D'Alessandro to send a mail with the issues faced

  3. 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

  4. TN NSSMF - Call from SDN-R to AAI to retrieve RAN NFs returns improper result. @Alessandro D'Alessandro to share the details in mail

  5. 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

E2E Slicing Solution

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

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

8

Use case Automation

E2E network Slicing use case test automation

New

1

Ahila

Wipro

 

 

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

 

 

 

Proposed by Yogendra. Under discussion

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RAN Slicing

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

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

4

CPS Integration Stabilization

Validate and bug fix of CPS integration for RAN slice lifecycle

Carry forward

1

Ahila

Wipro

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Core Slicing

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

 

 

 

Owner not identified yet.

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

 

 

 

Cannot be done, as ExtAPI is in unmaintained state

3

CSIT for core slicing

CSIT test cases for Core NSSMF

 

1

 

 

 

Owner not identified yet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Transport Slicing

1

Support for modify-deallocate in TN-NSSMF

 

Enhancement

1

Henry Yu

Huawei

 

 

2

TN NSSMF enhancements according to IETF latest specification

 

Enhancement

3

Henry Yu

Huawei

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

5

CSIT for transport slicing

 

 

1

Henry Yu

Huawei

 

 

6

Transport Slicing enhancement to support IBN based E2E slicing

 

New

1

Henry Yu

Huawei

 

 

7

Closed-loop enhancement in CCVPN to support Transport Slicing’s closed-loop

 

New

1

Henry Yu

Huawei

 

 

Closed Loop

1

IBN based Closed loop

Make use of intents/ML models for closed loop

New

3

Dong Wang

China Telecom

 

 

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

 

 

3

CPS Integration Stabilization

Validate and enhance CPS integration for closed loop

Carry forward

1

Ahila

Wipro

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

KPI Monitoring

1

KPI Computation MS Remaining Requirements (Mark Scott’s comments)

https://jira.onap.org/browse/DCAEGEN2-2801

Carry forward

1

Ahila

Wipro

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Recording