2020-10-21 Meeting notes (ONAP/O-RAN-SC/SMO - Meeting)

Next meeting: 2020-10-28
Summer time ends in Europe Sunday 24-10-2020

>16:00 UTC / noon EDT / 17:00 CET (Am I right?)

ONAP - ORAN harmonization

OOF/SON

Subject: RE: ONAP - ORAN harmonization

Hi Martin,

... The presentation will be just an intro within ONAP community tmow (Thu) at 9 a.m ET (https://zoom.us/j/91411963761?pwd=N01jVmN4ZTl5bkxoY083NU9jNDhOUT09) at LFN vF2F meetings, to seek inputs & feedback – you have to register for the LFN vF2F meetings using the Registration link to attend.

I will attend the Wed meetings from next week as this week we have the vF2F meetings.

Thanks & Regards,
Swami.

Report from O-RAN-SC TOC meeting

• suggestion by O-RAN-SC
  • too many parts are develop outside of O-RAN-SC

• opens the question about the scope of open-source projects

Postman scripts to interface with the SMO and in turn test O1 interface between the SMO and different parts of O-RAN instances of O-CU, O-DU, O-RU and RIC using these models. 

• yang modules
• framework for test and validate CM 

share content in in SMO gerrit and create wiki linking to the same source

• Working on a framework for vendors for OAM/YANG tests
• O-RAN-SC to host the framework
• Postman and vsCode as RestClients
• Alex about to setup a SIM in OSC lab - involve Rittwik in a O-RAN private lab
• OpenFronthaul
• 3GPP models are considered.

Feedback from Rittwik

• SMO in T-Labs
• how to run Netopeer server - req to Felix (O-RAN-SC INT PTL)
• Alex asked for VMs 

Init script (Postman) for O-RAN OAM FH M-Plane (o-ran-interface.yang augmenting ) interface demoed

RFC8040 (RestConf by IETF) support supported by ODL

O-RAN Component deployment

The question is: How to deploy the red colored CNFs/VNFs of the O-RAN-Architecture?

• CNF for O-RAN-components 
  • model of CNF - how to be configured, how many components, blueprints
  • CDS model needs to be created
  • Network-service based on several CNFs
    • CNF types
      • Near-RT-RIC
      • O-CU-UP
      • O-CU-CP
      • O-DU

For detailed discussion the following page was created:

• CNF deployment of O-RAN Components 

Package

• for Network Functions (priority)
• for Network Service (second step)

CNFs or VNFs

• both should be considered 
  • let's start with CNFs first
  • VNF is considered as additional option

• no CNFs and VNFs combined in a single package
  • maybe not for rApps → 
  • VNF should take care about internal CNFs

ONAP/CCSDK - INT - script based testing by copy from O-RAN-SC repos

• guidelines for such scripting - hints, guidelines, ... - @john - for Honolulu 

Questions and Answers