2023-04-12 Meeting notes - Joint OAM / NONRTRIC / SIM Community meeting

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Date

12 Apr 2023

Attendees

• John Keeney (Ericsson EST & OSC NONRTRIC)
• Martin Skorupski (Highstreet & OSC OAM)
• Alex Stancu (Highstreet & OSC SIM)
• Seshu Kumar Mudiganti (Windriver & ONAP & OSC INF)
• Timo Perala (Nokia & ONAP)
• Aravindhan Ayyanathan (Ericsson EST)
• Kevin Timoney (Ericsson EST)
• Sonia Sangari (Ericsson EST)
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See also / co-located (ONAP/O-RAN-SC/SMO - Meeting)

• Co-located with ONAP 2023-04-12 Meeting notes (ONAP/O-RAN-SC/SMO - Meeting)

Contents

Recording

• Recording (MP4 - lo res)

Notes:

Housekeeping:

• Calendar:

  • https://lists.o-ran-sc.org/g/main/calendar

  • https://lists.onap.org/g/onap-meetings/calendar

  • 9am PDT | 12pm EDT | 16:00 UTC | 17:00 BST | 18:00 CEST | 19:00 EEST | 21:30 IST | 00:00 CST (Thurs) | 01:00 JST (Thurs)  

• OSC SMO project calls now move to its own time slot - alternate Thursdays

  • See OSC RSAC Calendar: https://wiki.o-ran-sc.org/display/RSAC/calendars

  • See also OSC Meetings calendar: https://lists.o-ran-sc.org/g/main/calendar

  • (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.

  • See OSC SMO Project meeting notes

• See also OSC AIML Project meeting notes

OSC Project roundup:

News from OSC TOC call last week

• https://wiki.o-ran-sc.org/display/TOC#ORANSCTechnicalOversightCommittee(TOC)
  • Last week's TOC (Thursday):
    • Nominations for OSC SMO PTL position open.
      • Yogendra Pal gave a brief presentation on his candidature
      • (Seshu Kumar Mudiganti gave a brief presentation on his candidature last week)
      • Election should start this week?
    • Discussion about how to align with MVPC features. However MVPC fatures are difficult to 'comply' with - until they they are broken down and more 'actionable'. Lots of parts missing / incomplete in OSC
    • Discussion about better alignment with WGs - More to follow here?
    • Proposal that subsets of PTLs should report in more detail some weeks.
  • This week's TOC (Tomorrow):

NONRTRIC (John Keeney)

• No major update this week - Quiet week - Public Holidays & vacations
• Otherwise continuing as per last week :
  
  • Alot of work in JDK 17 & Springboot 3 updates
  • Consolidating PM data exposure in new repo for RAN PM functions
    • https://gerrit.o-ran-sc.org/r/gitweb?p=nonrtric%2Fplt%2Franpm.git;a=summary
  • (R1) Service Exposure & Management
    • CAPIF Aligned Service Registry
    • Secured/Sandbox execution environment
    • Controlled access & exposure of service to/from rApps

  • (R1) Data Management & Exposure

    • File-based PM data → InfluxDB
    • Previous focus on PM data - but will extend to other use cases too
    • Aim to work with AIML project for Training (and Inference ?) data access

  • rApp Management

    • Built on ONAP “Automation Composition” model & platform to implement rApp use cases
      • Inference Services in rApps
        • Added a 'KServe Participant'
      • rApp-specific extensions needed
    • Packaging, Onboarding & Orchestration of rApps
      • rApp-specific packaging & Onboarding
        • Aim to align with / inform ongoing work in O-RAN (& OSC) about Common App packaging & Onboarding.
      • (rApps with & without µService)
    • Overlap with Service Exposure work to examine role of an rApp Manager to support controlled exposure & LCM of µService and non-µService parts of an rApp

  • Continued A1-Policy & A1-Enrichment-Information evolution (& R1-A1)

    • A1 Spec evolution
    • A1-Policy work in ONAP (continues in ONAP London) - candidate for R1-A1(P)
    • A1-EI management as part of DME - candidate for how to include A1-EI in R1-DME
  • Sample use cases (rApps)
    • Requirements Drivers for rApp/R1 development
    • High degree of cross-project integration activity

  • Testing, Maintenance & Housekeeping

    • Function Test & Integration Test environment,
    • Support integration, deployment & configuration of SMO/Non-RT-RIC related functions & usecases in OSC Integration env.
    • Project coordination, Documentation, Delivery, Reporting, Cross-project alignment, Community demos, O-RAN Standardization support, etc.

SIM (Alex Stancu)

• ODU SIM now uses 3Gpp rel 18 yang models
  • Now available & in OAM Docker compose deployment
• ORU watchdog behavior?
• PM File generation
  
  • John Keeney Alex Stancu No update

OAM (Martin Skorupski)

• Working on Std-Defined VES Message examples for CM, FM, PM (17 different samples)
  • VES collector code updated to pull & inject YAML models automatically
  • Still working on examples & validation etc.
• Investigating WG4 OFHM v11 now has VES std defined models
  • Supervision mechanism under development to O-RU. (Watchdog & Reset)
    
    • Looking at related VES messages & how this integrates in Simulators - with SIM above
    • Needs an 'O-RU controller' - either in SMO or ODU to do resets etc)
      • Working on a small uService for this

O-DU Vidhu Shekhar Pandey)

• No update
• Martin Skorupski will update about latest spec updates.

OSC Integration / INT (James Li )

• No update

RSAC/SMO (David Kinsey)

• Minutes: RSAC Meetings (11/4)
  • No update
• SMO (Mahesh Jethanandani)
  
  • See OSC Meetings calendar: https://lists.o-ran-sc.org/g/main/calendar
  • See OSC SMO Project meeting notes
  • PTL election continues
    • Nominations so far: Yogendra Pal Seshu Kumar Mudiganti 
    • Voting starts next week - ref. TOC section above
  • No Meeting this week

AI/ML platform project (Joseph Thaliath)

• Minutes & Meeting: Meeting notes

• Calendar: https://lists.o-ran-sc.org/g/main/calendar

• No update this week

How to map OFHM notifications to Kafka Topics? (Martin Skorupski)

• How to map defined notifications to a topic on Kafka?

  • Discussion: https://wiki.o-ran-sc.org/display/OAM/Topics+for+OpenFronthaul-Management-Plane

ONAP Use cases (N.K. Shankaranarayanan)

• ONAP SON uses case ... & others
  • No Update

ONAP / OSC / O-RAN Alliance: Cooperation & Alignment

• No Update

Questions / Comments / AOB:

• None
• Seshu Kumar Mudiganti would like a little time next week to talk about Nephio next week.

Meeting ends 15min