Time & Location:

Date

03 Mar 2021

Attendees

• John Keeney
• Martin Skorupski
• Alex Stancu
• Swaminathan Seetharaman
• Andy Mayer
• Bhanu Chandra K
• user-4594e
• Fernando (Fred) Oliveira
• HariomGupta(HCL
• Kamel Idir
• Konrad Bańka
• Krystian Kedron
• Kuldeep Negi
• Lasse Kaihlavirta
• Marcin Krasowski
• Marcin Szalus
• Pawel Slowikowski
• Pravin Kumar Ruppa Damodaran
• Sonia Sangari
• Scott Blandford
• Timo Perala
• Vidhu Shekhar Pandey
• Zu Qiang (Ericsson)
• Some others may have joined later ... please add yourself

See also / co-located (ONAP/O-RAN-SC/SMO - Meeting)

• Co-located with ONAP 2021-03-03 Meeting notes (ONAP/O-RAN-SC/SMO - Meeting)

Contents:

Recording

• Recording (cloud)
• Recording (low res mp4)

Notes:

Housekeeping:

• Timezone management
  • 2021-03-10    | 9am PST |  noon EST | 17:00 UTC | 17:00 GMT | 18:00 CET | 22:30 IST | 00:00 CST (Thurs) | 01:00 JST (Thurs)
  • 2021-03-17    | 9am PDT |  noon EDT | 16:00 UTC | 16:00 GMT | 17:00 CET | 21:30 IST | 00:00 CST | 00:00 JST (Thurs)
  • 2021-03-24    | 9am PDT |  noon EDT | 16:00 UTC | 16:00 GMT | 17:00 CET | 21:30 IST | 23:00 CST | 00:00 JST (Thurs)
  • 2021-03-31    | 9am PDT |  noon EDT | 16:00 UTC | 17:00 BST | 18:00 CEST | 21:30 IST | 23:00 CST | 00:00 JST (Thurs)
  • 2021-04-07    | 9am PDT |  noon EDT | 16:00 UTC | 17:00 BST | 18:00 CEST | 21:30 IST | 23:00 CST | 00:00 JST (Thurs)

• Reminder from previous week:
  • OSC SMO calls now move to its own time slot - Thursdays
  • See OSC RSAC Calendar: https://wiki.o-ran-sc.org/display/RSAC/calendars
  • (Note this meeting to open to anyone, including non-ORAN members)
  • We will maintain this slot for ONAP Alignment, and try flag issues/question to/from SMO meetings.

• Meeting invites etc.
  
  • John Keeney to update meeting invites.
  • Konrad Bańka To check if a postcode is needed - or just be signed into zoom.

OSC Project roundup:

NONRTRIC (John Keeney)

• No major update.
• Still training & initial prototyping around rApp execution platform - k8s based.

SIM (Alex Stancu)

• Ongoing work with OTF integrating E2 simulator
• Some email exchanges with Facebook RAN simulator

OAM (Martin Skorupski)

•  Still discussing topology in ONAP: Abstract Topology Model
  • Good discussions with Tony Finnerty
  • Agreeing on terminology & scope
• O-RAN specs from "November train" now available from O-RAN website
  • Ref O-RU & O-DU yang models - Copied to O-RAN gerrit (under review) - (note O-RAN SCP license) 
    • WG4 O-RAN RU Fronthaul M-Plane: https://gerrit.o-ran-sc.org/r/c/scp/oam/modeling/+/5706
    • WG5 O-RAN DU O1: https://gerrit.o-ran-sc.org/r/c/scp/oam/modeling/+/5705
  • Martin Skorupski Gathering & providing feedback to WGs.

ONAP - OSC:

• Lasse Kaihlavirta John Keeney ORAN ONAP CSIT
  • CSIT test run as expected now.(Tanks to Lasse Kaihlavirta)
  • Still need to confirm test environment is stable - if issues in coming weeks we will escalate to LF.
  • Lasse Kaihlavirta wants to discuss futher with Björn Magnusson user-4907f  - will do offline.
  • Some concern about how long tests may take to run. Will monitor for a while and adjust if needed.

• Lasse KaihlavirtaWhat will A1 / R1 look like? (Still being defined in O-RAN WG2 - so everything until then is just prototyping!) 
  • John Keeney Work is ongoing in OSC - likely to be some time before we have a proposal, and then any proposal is subject to change once R1 is specified
    • Would like all R1 operations to/from rApps to traverse through some form of API gateway - to enforce isolation & R1 compliance.
    • Current plan for A1 Policy is that A1 PMS should be close to R1 exposure for A1 (TBC) - so initially we will just expose A1 PMS NBI.
      • Likely to have some URL translation though AP1 gateway (e.g. url prefix etc)
    • Need to be careful to avoid ONAP service becoming de-facto R1. @All - Please bring your priorities/suggestions for R1 to WG2 as early as possible.

• Pawel Slowikowski Samsung A1 use case demonstrated late last year.
  • Ref: 2020-07-29 Meeting notes (SDN-R)
    
    • Demonstrates UE Handover closed loop - extends ONAP & OSC simulators & A1 policy functions, some DCAE microservices
  • Contributing the code to ONAP INT project in coming weeks.
  • Pawel Slowikowski Unlikely rApps will be DCAE microservices - more likely K8s deployments - but DCAE is starting to move this way too.
  • John Keeney Encourage to look at Control Loop work in ONAP (proposed as a new ONAP Project in Istanbul release) https://wiki.onap.org/display/DW/TOSCA+Defined+Control+Loop%3A+Architecture+and+Design
  • Pawel Slowikowski Hopefully this work will continue in ONAP INT (maybe a usecase?) in coming releases. Currently PoC only - Don't plan to promote as a full ONAP use case.
  • John Keeney Pawel Slowikowski Need to ensure alignment between OSC & ONAP

• HariomGupta(HCL) O-RU Closed loop use case - O-DU startup part.
  • Successfully Tested using Netopeer-cert and test certs. Will test will new certs from Felix if/when they are available (Alex Stancu also testing with newly created certs)
  • Regarding Yang files from WG5 - has LOTS of dependencies on 3GPP. Martin Skorupski HariomGupta(HCL) Will work together to use just the use-case necessary parts. Ref OSC SMO/RSAC call tomorrow.

• Vidhu Shekhar Pandey Setting up test env to work toward O-DU set up. 
  • Martin Skorupski to send sample for PNF  registration VES event

• Swaminathan Seetharaman working with user-4594e about FM in SON use case.
  • updates to follow