• Consolidated & Improved RAN PM data exposure in new repo for RAN PM functions
  • Adds 4 new services for RAN PM processing
  • Lots of work on deployment scripts/charts, testing, CI, and documentation
• (R1)

• R1 Service Exposure & Management (SME)
  
  • CAPIF Aligned Service Registry & Discovery
  • Continued
  • Continuing work of Service execution platform extensions (K8s, Istio, Keycloak, OPA, Gateway) to enable and enforce service isolation & exposure
  • First version of 3GPP CAPIF-aligned Service Registration & Discovery service available. Will continue integration with related work on rApp management & Service exposure enforcement.
  • Controlled access & exposure of service to/from rApps
• (R1) R1 Data Management & Exposure
  • Aligning with emerging proposals for R1-DME where possible
  • R1 DME Data Catalog support in NONRTRIC ICS 
  • R1 Data delivery & filtering (Kafka & REST)
    • Investigating approaches for access to stored data
  • Continuing prototyping with PM data exposure, filtering & access control
    • Additional support for stored data access (S3 currently supported) (InfluxDB tbc) .
  (DME)
  
  • Small updates to Information Coordination Service – studying alignment with R1 proposals
  • File-based PM data → Kafka/InfluxDB/Minio
    • Including parsing, filtering & delivery
    • ref. PM Data exposure above
• rApp Management
  • Started work on a new rApp Manager functions – more in next release
  • LCM for rApps:
  rApp Manager
  • Building on ONAP “Automation Composition” model & platform to implement rApp use cases
    • Added a 'KServe Participant’
      • Inference Services in rApps
      • Now supports KServe-based AI/ML rApps
    • Added an ‘A1 Policy Participant’
  • Overlap with Service Exposure work to examine role of an rApp Manager to support controlled access to and exposure & LCM of µService and non-µService parts of an rApp
  • Hope to start work on supporting ASD-based rApps
  • of Services
  • Overlap with Data Exposure work to examine role of an rApp Manager to support controlled access to and exposure of Data typesSupport KServe App components
• Continued A1-Policy & A1-Enrichment-Information evolution (& R1-A1)
  • Sample use cases (rApps)
    • Requirements Drivers for rApp/R1 development
    • High degree of cross-project integration activity
  • Testing, Maintenance & Housekeeping
    • Function Test & Integration Test environment,
    • Support integration, deployment & configuration of SMO/Non-RT-RIC related functions & usecases in OSC Integration env.
    • Project coordination, Documentation, Delivery, Reporting, Cross-project alignment, Community demos, O-RAN Standardization support, etc.
  • • A1-Policy work in ONAP (continues in ONAP London) - candidate for R1-A1(P)
      • Numerous updates to improve security
      • Improved support fine-grained policy-based access control
      • Removed DMaaP NBI
    • A1-EI management as part of DME - candidate for how to include A1-EI in R1-DME
      • ref. DME work above
  • Demonstrated ASD-based CNF LCM
    • ONAP SO CNFM in standalone mode
  • Sample use cases (rApps)
    • Requirements Drivers for rApp/R1 development
  • Testing, Maintenance & Housekeeping
    • 3PP update – esp. Springboot 3 & JDK 17
    • Function Test & Integration Test environment,
      • Lots of new test cases, and new ONAP L & OSC H test profiles
    • Continue integration, deployment & configuration of SMO/Non-RT-RIC related functions & usecases in OSC Integration environment.
    • Project coordination, Documentation, Delivery, Reporting, Cross-project alignment, Community demos, O-RAN Standardization support, etc.

H Release - Tasks:

Count of Epics (20 issues), User Stories, Tasks, and Issues:  (455 issues)

Relevant Epics:

• Jira
  server ORAN Jira

H Release - Highlights:

Count of Epics (20 issues), User Stories, Tasks, and Issues:  (455 issues)
Relevant Epics (Draft/Incomplete. Mostly in progress):