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Contents

Recording

Notes:

Housekeeping:

Should we change the time for this call?

  • Time is very late for attendees from Asia ... maybe a bit earlier ... but not earlier than 5AM West-US

  • Suggestions in coming weeks.

OSC Project roundup:

News from OSC TOC call last week

NONRTRIC (John Keeney)

  • Extending A1-Policy Management service in ONAP to support fine-grained access control
  • Making good progress on CAPIF service registry/discovery functions. Hope to demo in coming weeks
  • Documenting ONAP ACM/rApp participants contributed during this release
  • Improving support for x509 certs
  • Documenting & improving deployability of RANPM functions
  • Improving NONRTRIC Function/Integration testing with new profiles for current ONAP/OSC releases.
    • Need to see how we perhaps trigger some of tests in cooperation with James Li / INT project.
    • Need to work on keep SMO deployment working in it/dep - including tests etc.
  • Otherwise continuing as per last week :
    • Consolidating PM data exposure in new repo for RAN PM functions
    • (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)

  • WG4 OFHM O-RAN watchdog/supervision activity & reset
    • (Reverse) Heartbeat from O-RU
  • PM File generation

OAM (Martin Skorupski)

  • Still 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.
  • .. And WG4 OFHM v11 now has VES std defined models
    • Messages are based on Yang, which makes translation → VES a bit tricky
    • Looking at related VES messages & how this integrates in Simulators - with SIM above
      • Working on a small uService to react to resets/timeouts etc.

O-DU Vidhu Shekhar Pandey)

  • No update

OSC Integration / INT (James Li )

  • Adding more automation & testing for H Release
    • Focusing on near-RT-RIC deployment & xApps onboarding & testing with existing Robot scripts in XTesting.

RSAC/SMO (David Kinsey)

AI/ML platform project (Joseph Thaliath)

ONAP Use cases (N.K. Shankaranarayanan)

  • No Update

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

  • No Update

Questions / Comments / AOB:

  • None


Meeting ends 25min