Primary Goals: 

O-DU new Feature Development

1. HARQ framework support and scheduler enhancement to prioritize retransmission

2. Enhancement of Scheduler

3. Mobility mode Support (Intra-CU handover)

4. Support for Idle Mode Paging

Feature verification

1. Closed-Loop Automation

2.16QAM and 64 QAM (Spillover from D release)

End to End Integration support

1.TDD/Mu1/100MHz

2.FDD/Mu0/20MHz * (Spillover from D/E release)

Enhancement

1.E2 AP upgrade 2.0

F Feature Scope: 

• HARQ framework support

• Scheduler enhancement
• Mobility (Inter-DU handover) support
• Idle mode paging support
• E2AP upgrade to v2.0
• End to end integration support

F Feature Achievement:

• HARQ framework support - Added
• Scheduler enhancement - enhanced to support HARQ retransmissions
• Mobility (Inter-DU handover) support - Added
• Idle mode paging support - Added
• E2AP upgrade to v2.0 - Aligned
• End to end integration support - Deferred to future release due to lab setup issues

HCL's updates

O1 Enhancements

https://jira.o-ran-sc.org/browse/ODUHIGH-430: Done

https://jira.o-ran-sc.org/browse/ODUHIGH-431: Done

https://jira.o-ran-sc.org/browse/ODUHIGH-454: Done

Dependency/Blockers:

 Blocked for PTP grandmaster at the OSC lab to start the end to end integration activities

F release maintenance source code, container images, and deployment instructions

Source code: https://gerrit.o-ran-sc.org/r/gitweb?p=o-du%2Fl2.git;a=shortlog;h=refs%2Fheads%2Ff-release
Release notes: https://docs.o-ran-sc.org/projects/o-ran-sc-o-du-l2/en/latest/release-notes.html#f-release
Document: https://docs.o-ran-sc.org/projects/o-ran-sc-o-du-l2/en/latest/

Code coverage: To be planned as UT framework is not available to provide code coverage.