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A1 is used for enabling the near-real time RIC (the term RIC will be used on this page) to manage policies configured for various hosted xAPPs.  A1-related RIC Health-Check must ensure that: 1) the A1 interface is operational, and 2) policy changes (create, change, delete) can be processed.  

The A1 RIC Health-Check flow support  the following requirements/Epics:

  • Provide E2E Health-Check - Policy Changes via A1 interface
  • Non-RT RIC support of A1 messages - Policy list queries
  • RIC Support of A1 Policy Test Message Generation and Mediation
    • HelloWorld Test Policy Instance Creation and Deletion
    • xAPP process of HelloWorld Policy Creation and Deletion

For A1 interface health, the RIC Platform is already defining a self-check mechanism (see RIC Self-Check page) in which the A1 Mediator will support internal health-check requests (get_healthcheck request defined).  And if there are any anomalies, an alarm will be generated via O1VES and the RIC alarm-list will be updated.  So there is no need for the NB client issue a specific A1 health-check; NB client can just query for the alarm-list for A1 mediator health and other component/xAPP health that might hinder the policy configuration from being processed.

To verify whether policy configuration requests can be processed, it is recommended that a "HelloWorld" xAPP be defined that supports a unique "HelloWorld" policy to be created and deleted.   So a NB client (Non-RTRIC in SMO or OTF) can verify RIC's policy processing health across the pathway from A1 Mediator, to RMR, to HelloWorld xAPP, back to A1 Mediator, and A1 Mediator in updating its policy list.

Here are the sequence of operations:

  • Get current policy list (to ensure HelloWorld policy instance is not present)
  • Send via A1 a HelloWorld policy instance creation request
  • Upon receiving creation request successful, get current policy list again (to verify HelloWorld policy instance is present)
  • Send via A1 a HelloWorld policy instance deletion request
  • Upon successful response, get current policy list (to verify HelloWorld policy instance removal)

Near-RT RIC angle: RIC-46 for A1

Figure below shows the corresponding sequence flow diagram.


A1 RIC Health-Check Personnel SMO O-RAN RIC «INT»Test Driver «INT»Test Driver «OAM»O1 «OAM»O1 «NONRTRIC»Non-RT RIC «NONRTRIC»Non-RT RIC «RIC»A1 MED «RIC»A1 MED «RIC»O1 TERM «RIC»O1 TERM «RICAPP»HelloWorld xAPP «RICAPP»HelloWorld xAPP «SIM»E2 Node «SIM»E2 Node SMO SMO Provide E2E Healthcheck Test (Policy Changes via A1) A1 Heartbeat A1 Mediator Health is addressed by RIC Self-Check Flows A1 On-demand Policy Creation and Deletion Non-RT RIC support for A1 messages: A1 Query of PoliciesQuerying Policies can be requested by OTF/Test Driver as well 1Get Policies 2«A1» GET Policy List 3«A1» Policy List 4Policy List Support A1 Policy Test Message Generation:"HelloWorld" Test Policy Instance Creation 5Create Policy (HelloWorld) 6«A1» HelloWorld Policy Creation Request 7«A1» Policy Creation Request Accepted 8Policy Creation Request Accepted 9«A1» Get HelloWorld Policy Status 10«A1» Not Found 11«A1» Get HelloWorld Policy Status 12«A1» Not Found 13HelloWorld Policy Creation Support A1 Policy Test Message Mediation 14Policy Status Change Support A1 Policy Test Message Processing:"HelloWorld" xAPP process "HelloWorld" Policy Creation 15«A1» Get HelloWorld Policy Status 16«A1» HelloWorld Policy Status 17  Update Policy Status Data Store 18«A1» Get HelloWorld Policy Status 19«A1» HelloWorld Policy Status 20«A1» GET Policy List 21«A1» Policy List Send Policy List showing HelloWorld instance created Support A1 Policy Test Message Generation:"HelloWorld" Test Policy Deletion 22Delete Policy (HelloWorld) 23«A1» HelloWorld Policy Deletion Request 24«A1» Policy Deletion Request Accepted 25Policy Deletion Request Accepted 26«A1» Get HelloWorld Policy Status 27«A1» HelloWorld Policy Status HelloWorld Policy not deleted yet 28«A1» Get HelloWorld Policy Status 29«A1» HelloWorld Policy Status HelloWorld Policy not deleted yet 30HelloWorld Policy Deletion 31Policy Status Change 32«A1» Get HelloWorld Policy Status 33«A1» Not Found HelloWorld Policy deleted 34«A1» Get HelloWorld Policy Status 35«A1» Not Found 36«A1» GET Policy List 37«A1» Policy List Send Policy List showing HelloWorld deleted













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