Bronze release page for the O-RAN Software community
Welcome to the Bronze release page for the O-RAN Software community
This page contains all the information specific to the Bronze release and frozen code (code freeze = Jun-14, 2020) and documentation. The main trunk will continue on to support future releases.
This is the second 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.
See Requirements and Software Architecture under Committees and Projects for more details on current activities.
Second release capabilities include contributions under the following projects:
- Non-Real-time RIC (A1 Interface) (NONRTRIC)
- Near Realtime RAN Intelligent Controller Platform (E2 Interface) (RIC-PLT)
- Near Real-time RIC X-APPs (RICAPP)
- OAM (O1 Interface)
- O-RAN Central Unit (OCU)
- O-DU High
- O-DU Low
- Dashboard (OAM)
- Simulators (SIM)
- Infrastructure (INF)
- Integration and Test (INT)
- Documentation (DOC)
Get Bronze
- Source code: Release Date:
- Per-repository details: Release Date:
Documentation
Table of Projects
Bronze Release Timeline
Learn Bronze
- Documentation home: http://docs.o-ran-sc.org
- Video tutorials and demos:
Near real-time RIC X-APPs (RICAPP) |
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Primary Goals: This includes open source sample xAPPs and platform applications that can we used for integration, testing, and demonstrations. |
Bronze Feature Scope: Support Bronze use cases by developing and evolving existing xApps. For the traffic steering use case, we are extending the existing KPIMON xApp and developing new TS, QP, and QP Driver xApps using the different programming langauges supported by the RIC platform. For the health check use case we are developing a demo xApp that supports the A1 health check and extending existing xApps with more thorough liveness checking from K8s and new statistics/alarming APIs provided by the RIC platform. |
PTL: Matti Hiltunen |
Jira: Count of Epics, User Stories, Tasks, and Issues: Getting issues... Status 3-31-2020:
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Near Realtime RAN Intelligent Controller Platform (E2 Interface) (RIC-PLT) |
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Primary Goals: Develop platform for xApp hosting with stable APIs for xApps using RIC's E2 interface, xApp management interface and other auxiliary xApp interfaces, like a database storage interface. |
Bronze Feature Scope: Adapting RIC from pre-spec to WG3's first formal E2 protocol specification (for communication with RAN nodes, like CU/DU). Implement netconf-based O1. Enhance RIC's messaging solution (RMR) to achieve higher throughput, various health check capabilities including a capability to ping E2 nodes via E2 and to do a health check of the A1 interface, better failure handling in various components, ... |
PTL: Thoralf Czichy |
Status 2020-04-29 and 2020-04-30
Status 2020-03-31
Status 2020-03-04
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Non-Real-time RIC (A1 Interface) (NONRTRIC) |
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Primary Goals: The primary goal of Non-RT RIC is to support intelligent RAN optimization by providing policy-based guidance, ML model management and enrichment information to the near-RT RIC function so that the RAN can optimize, e.g., RRM under certain conditions. |
Bronze Feature Scope: |
PTL: John Keeney |
Jira: Count of Epics ( ), User Stories, Tasks, and Issues: Getting issues... Getting issues...
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OAM (O1 Interface) |
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Primary Goals: Implementation of O-RAN Alliance OAM Architecture and Interface Specifications. |
Bronze Feature Scope: Modeling and implementation of the Health Check use case and Deployment of an SMO. |
PTL: Martin Skorupski |
Status:
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O-RAN Central Unit (OCU) |
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Primary Goals: The O-CU project provides 5G SA reference implementation according to the O-RAN WG8 documents. In addition we provide the implementation of RRC SDAP PDCP and F1AP module and API between them. Basic CU functions defined in O-RAN WG8 Support E2E use case defined in O-RAN |
Bronze Feature Scope: F1
SDAP
PDCP
RRC
Ng
E1
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PTL: user-a934b |
Jira: Count of Epics, User Stories, Tasks, and Issues: - OCU-1Getting issue details... STATUS F1 - OCU-2Getting issue details... STATUS SDAP - OCU-3Getting issue details... STATUS PDCP - OCU-4Getting issue details... STATUS RRC - OCU-5Getting issue details... STATUS Ng - OCU-6Getting issue details... STATUS E1 |
O-DU High |
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Primary Goals: Develop Amber release code to enhance O-DU layers source code |
Bronze Feature Scope:
Out of Scope:
Limitations/Dependencies:
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PTL: Sachin Srivastava |
Jira: EPICS are mentioned below:
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O-DU 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 AAD 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 ORAN specification and 3GPP . |
Bronze Feature Scope: enhance O-RAN FH interface lib, develop FAPI API, deliver O-DU Low full functionality binary |
PTL: @Zhimin Yuan |
Jira: 3 Epics, 4 Stories, Tasks, and Issues: |
Epics | Planning | Jira Epic Link | status |
Develop L1/L2 FAPI Interface API | 1.Develop the L1/L2 FAPI API files 2.Develop the interface parse software for O-DU low software | on-going 1 epic 1 story | |
Develop O-DU Low binary | 1.Upstream the O-DU low binary file with typical test cases 2.Provide loader for OSC to download and test | on-going 1 epic 1 story | |
Enhance O-RAN Front Haul Library | 1.Develop new features, include support category B, Support block floating point compression and decompression 2.Develop the CI/CD infrastructure according to O-RAN requirement | Done, 1 epic, 3 stories | |
O-DU interface with accelerator | Depend on the specification definition(TBD) | track in DPDK |
Limitations/Dependencies:
- L1 binary license agreement – affact the L1 binary release
- ICC usage agreement – it'll affact FAPI lib, O-RAN FH lib compilation and execution. it'll affact L1 binary execution
Status update:
Simulators (SIM) |
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Primary Goals: Providing software simulators which are needed by the other projects. |
Bronze Feature Scope: Support both the Health Check and the Traffic Steering use cases. |
PTL: Alex Stancu |
Jira: Count of Epics, User Stories, Tasks, and Issues: Getting issues...
Blockers: need resources for E2 Simulator enhancements for supporting Traffic Steering use case |
Infrastructure (INF) |
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Primary Goals: Provide an open source refence implementation of O-Cloud complying with WG6 specifications. Use it as the edge cloud to be able to run vO-DU and vO-CU services on it. |
Bronze Feature Scope: Based on release Amber, support the ARM based system. Align with requirement of the O-Cloud, add more services such as fault management , configuraiton management , software management , host management and service management. Improve the automation by adopting the ansible, and integrate with INT project. |
PTL: Xiaohua Zhang |
Jira: Count of Epics, User Stories, Tasks, and Issues: INF project EPICs in Release B 15 EPICs in total, 2 EPICs onging, 1 EPIC (document) is todo. Currently is during the bug fixing phase (by the end of 27th-April-2020) |
Integration and Test (INT) |
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Primary Goals: CICD, integration and deployment of O-RAN SC developed software, software testing. |
Bronze Feature Scope: 1. CICD to support software static analysis and quality reporting, and integrated testing for Near RT RIC; 2. "One-click" deployment of Non RT RIC, OAM, and Near RT RIC, and simulators for supporting the Bronze use cases; 3. Deployment and integration of other components; 4. Integrated testing and use case flow testing. |
PTL: user-d3360 |
Jira: Count of Epics, User Stories, Tasks, and Issues: Getting issues... |
Documentation (DOC) |
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Primary Goals: Bronze release documentation for OSC and developers |
Bronze Feature Scope: Improve current documentation skeleton and content, make documentation more understandable for readers. Focusing on integration documentation, the new feature of Bronze release. |
PTL: weichen ni |
Jira: Count of Epics, User Stories, Tasks, and Issues: |