2023-05-23 Meeting notes - Joint OAM / NONRTRIC / SIM Community meeting

Time & Location:

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Date

23 May 2023

Attendees

• John Keeney (Ericsson EST & OSC NONRTRIC)
• Martin Skorupski (Highstreet & OSC OAM)
• Alex Stancu  (Highstreet & OSC OAM)
• N.K. Shankaranarayanan(ONAP) 
• Aravindhan Ayyanathan(Ericsson EST) 
• Kevin Timoney (Ericsson EST)
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See also / co-located (ONAP/O-RAN-SC/SMO - Meeting)

• Co-located with ONAP 2023-05-23 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

  • 7am PDT | 10pm EDT | 14:00 UTC | 15:00 BST | 16:00 CEST | 17:00 EEST | 19:30 IST | 22:00 CST | 23:00 JST

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

  • 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

• John Keeney Away last week

New time for this call!

• Tuesdays at 14:00 UTC.
  
  • What time where you are?
  • 7am PDT | 10pm EDT | 14:00 UTC | 15:00 BST | 16:00 CEST | 17:00 EEST | 19:30 IST | 22:00 CST | 23:00 JST

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):
    • Update from several projects, including SMO & NONRTRIC (See below)
  • This week's TOC (in 2 days):
    • New meeting format with updates from relevant PTL etc
      • week 0: RSAC, Integration I (cross-project testing related), Infrastructure

      • Week 1 : RIC, RICAPP, AIMLFW

      • Week 2: NONRTRIC, SMO, OAM, SIM

      • Week 3: Integration II (lab related), O-DU-HIGH, O-DU-LOW

    • This week: 
      • SIM, OAM, RICAPP, O-DU-HIGH, O-DU-LOW, DOC

NONRTRIC (John Keeney)

• Demo: "LCM of ASD-based CNFs using ONAP CNFM function in Standalone mode" Aravindhan Ayyanathan 
  • At last weeks RSAC committee Meeting (17 May 2023)
  • Demonstrate ASD-based LCM for CNFs using a cut-down version of the CNFM function originally from the ONAP SO project. The function can be used in standalone mode without the need for the rest of SO, A&AI or SDC. 
  • Video: Hi-Res
    20230517 - cnfmdemo-hires.mp4
  • Video Lo-Res
    20230517 - cnfmdemo-lowres.mp4
  • Slides:
    
    
    
    
• Demo: "CAPIF for Service Registration & Service Discovery" Yennifer Chacon 
  • At last weeks RSAC committee Meeting (17 May 2023)
  • Demonstrate Demo/Discussion of CAPIF-based Service registry/discovery. The 3GPP CAPIF approach seems to be gaining traction as a basis for R1-SME, and we would like to show the progress we have made with our implementation.
  • Video: Hi-Res
    20230517 - capifdemo-hires.mp4
  • Video Lo-Res
    20230517 - capifdemo-lowres.mp4
  • Slides:
    
    
    
    
• TOC Update:
  • Slides:
    
    
    
    
• Working on improving documentation - especially for RAN PM functions:
  • https://docs.o-ran-sc.org/projects/o-ran-sc-nonrtric-plt-ranpm/en/latest/
• Making some initial progress on consolidated rApp manager ... but just starting still
• Experimenting with using Avro for PM data serialization ...
• Will try to expedite release processes for ONAP & OSC due to teams vacation & availability plans
• Previous weeks:
  
  • 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)

• Preparing for TOC update tomorrow
• Still looking at PM file passing:
  • Some additional useful info: https://docs.o-ran-sc.org/projects/o-ran-sc-nonrtric-plt-ranpm/en/latest/

OAM (Martin Skorupski)

• Preparing for update to TOC tomorrow.

O-DU Vidhu Shekhar Pandey)

• No update this week

OSC Integration / INT (James Li )

• No update this week

SMO (Seshu Kumar Mudiganti )

• No update this week
• Meeting notes Meeting notes

RSAC (David Kinsey Rittwik Jana )

• Minutes: RSAC Meetings  (17 May)
  
  • See Demos in NONRTRIC above
• This week:

AI/ML platform project (Joseph Thaliath)

• Minutes & Meeting: Meeting notes

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

ONAP/OSC Usecases(N.K. Shankaranarayanan)

• SON Usecase
  • Moving towards release prepartation
  • NETSIM in ONAP needs some update (Honeycomb not available?

ONAP/OSC Alignment Usecase proposal for ONAP Montreal(N.K. Shankaranarayanan)

• As discussed last week here.
• Discussed at ONAP TSC call last week: https://wiki.onap.org/display/Meetings/TSC+2023-05-18
  • Lots of interest in ONAP TSC
  • Emails to OSC TOC/RSAC chairs. Lots of interest
• "ONAP/OSC SMO Automation use case." (Umbrella of use cases )
• Use cases will need an rApp
  • Could align with ONAP ACM team to show 'hello-world' type rApps/compositions to show the end-to-end nature.
    • rApps would have very limited intelligence or functionality - little more than stubs.
• The word "Use-case" is very overloaded
  • In OSC we are aiming more for an "Integration Demonstrator"  (use-case may not be the best word)
  • In ONAP 'use-case' is good (Integration has different connotations in ONAP)

Questions / Comments / AOB:

• Nothing additional this week.

Meeting ends 30min