Welcome to the
Amber release page for the O-RAN Software community
Welcome to the Amber release page for the O-RAN Software community
The press release is planned for Dec 3rd 2019. The code freeze is Nov 30th.
This page will contain all the information specific to the Amber release and frozen code and documentation. The main truck will continue on to support future releases.
This release is the first release and is in partnership with the O-RAN Alliance. The specification and software are being worked at the same time and the software is considered pre-specification software.
The projects have limited capabilities which will increase over future releases.
Initial release capabilites capabilities include:
- Non-Real-time RIC (A1 Interface)
- near real-time RIC (X2 Interface)
- X-APPs
- OAM (O-1 Interface)
- Simulators
- Dashboard (OAM)
Link to press Release (Pending)
Documentation
https://docs.o-ran-sc.org/en/latest/
Table of Projects
Amber Release Timeline
Amber Release Software Package
We have packed all the software together to provide a simple step to download and install the Amber release. Here is a link to that package.
(TDB)
Near Real-Time RIC xApps (RICAPP) | |
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Primary Goals: Support near-real-time radio resource management via development and deployment of a series of xApps that interact with one another and the external components via A1, O1, and E2 interfaces (O-CU/O-DU) Planned xApps: (1) Admission Control; (2) Measurement Campaign; (3) UE Manager; (4) ML xApp; (5) KPI Monitor Active participation from AT&T, Nokia, Samsung | |
PTL | Matti Hiltunen (AT&T) |
Amber | 14 Epics defined; 5 Completed; 8 in-progress; 0 Blocked; 1 Deferred to Rel B |
Documentation and Project Coordination | Wiki Jira Gerrit Meetings |
Project Relations | OAM O-CU O-DU |
Near Real-Time RIC Platform (RICP) | |
Primary Goals: Support near-real-time radio resource management, managing O-CU’s and O-DU’s via E2 messages, receiving A1 intent and policy guidance messages from the non-RT RIC, O1 configuration requests, and emitting O1 measurement data to ONAP. | |
PTL | Thoralf Czichy (Nokia) |
Amber | 36 Epics defined |
Documentation and Project Coordination | Wiki Jira Gerrit Meetings |
Project Relations | OAM O-CU O-DU |
Infrastructure | |
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Target: Provide the infrastructure to vO-CU and vO-DU, include the VM and Container solutions. Enable the AAL (accelerator abstract layer) for the RAN application VNF/CNF. Active participation from Windriver and Lenovo. | |
PTL | Xiaohua Zhang (Windriver) |
Amber | 4 Epics defined and in-progress; 1 Deferred to Rel B
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Documentation and Project Coordination | Wiki Jira Gerrit Meetings |
Project Relations | OAM O-CU O-DU |
Non Real Time RIC (NONRTRIC) | |
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Primary Goal: Support non-real-time radio resource management, higher layer procedure optimization, policy optimization in RAN, and providing guidance, parameters, policies and AI/ML models to support the operation of near-RealTime RIC functions in the RAN to achieve higher-level non-real-time objectives. | |
PTL | John Keeney (Ericsson) |
Amber | 9 Epics, 10 user stories and 3 tasks defined (all open) |
Documentation and Project Coordination | Wiki JIRA Gerrit Meetings |
Project Relations | OAM O-CU O-DU |
O-RAN Distributed Unit High Home (O-DU High) | |
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Primary Goals: The O-DU (High) project provides reference implementation according to the O-RAN WG8 documents. It provides the implementation of F1AP, RLC, MAC, Scheduler modules and API between them. | |
PTL | Sachin Srivastava (Radisys) |
Amber | 6 Epics identified O-DU-OAM-Agent – Work In Progress |
Documentation and Project Coordination | Wiki Jira Gerrit Meetings (common meeting with O-CU, O-DU High, O-DU Low and Sim) ASN 1 tool |
Project Relations | Near-RT RIC Platform Non-RT RIC OAM O-CU-CP O-CU-UP O-DU Low |
O-DU (ODU-LOW) | |
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Primary Goals: The O-RAN-SC-ODU LOW project provides reference implementation of ODU-LOW according to the O-RAN AAL specification (WG8) documents. The reference design will follow the open interface toward ODU HIGH, RRU and Accelerator, provide physical layer signal processing functionality according to 3GPP . Scope: According to the ORAN-WG8.AAD specification, PHY layer functionality is realized as High-PHY in O-DU and Low-PHY in O-RU. Some of the PHY functionalities may be realized using hardware acceleration. O-DU Low project will focus on the High-PHY and fronthaul library modules that reside in O-DU. NR FAPI being standardized by Small Cells Forum (SCF) will be used for defining L1 and L2 interactions. | |
PTL | Zhimin Yuan (Intel) |
Amber | 4 Epics(2 Done, 2 To Do), 3 tasks (1 Done, 2 In Progress), 1 defer to release B |
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Project Relations | ODU High |
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