Time & Location:

Date

15 Dec 2021

Attendees

• John Keeney (Ericsson EST & OSC NONRTRIC)
• Martin Skorupski (Highstreet & OSC OAM & ONAP)
• Alex Stancu(Highstreet & OSC SIM)
• David Allabaugh(Fujitsu)
• David Kinsey (AT&T)
• Hariom Gupta (HCL)
• Gervais-Martial Ngueko (AT&T)
• James Li (CMCC & OSC INT)
• Kevin Tang (STL)
• Kevin Timoney (Ericsson EST)
• Marcin Krasowski (Samsung)
• Mateusz Zawadzki (Samsung)
• Michal Cmarada
• N.K. Shankaranarayanan (STL)
• Pawel Slowikowski(Samsung)
• Sonia Sangari (Ericsson EST)
• Vidhu Shekhar Pandey (HCL & OSC O-DU)
• May not have captured a full attendee list for this meeting  ... please add/remove yourself

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

• Co-located with ONAP 2021-12-15 Meeting notes (ONAP/O-RAN-SC/SMO - Meeting)
• Sorry - the minutes here a bit sparse - I had a poor connection & joined late - so please see also the minutes at ONAP 2021-12-15 Meeting notes (ONAP/O-RAN-SC/SMO - Meeting)

Contents

Recording

• Recording (MP4 - high res)

Notes:

Housekeeping:

OSC SMO Meeting Series: Reminder from previous weeks:

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

Next Meetings (Holiday period)

• 2021-12-22: cancelled
• 2021-12-29: cancelled
• 2022-01-05: cancelled
• 2022-01-12: Next Meeting

OSC Project roundup:

News from OSC TOC call this week

• https://wiki.o-ran-sc.org/display/TOC#ORANSCTechnicalOversightCommittee(TOC)
  • Roundup on E Release - Release vote passed! Congratulations E-RELEASE!
    
    • Branching label : "e-release"
    • E Release Docker Image List (In progress)
    • PR in progress - expect PR to appear in January

NONRTRIC (John Keeney)

• (Added after the call)
  
  • Finalized release
  • Taken from NONRTRIC - Release E & OSC Releases - E Release - NONRTRIC
    • In E Release:
      
      • Deployment, Integration & Configuration– Continued improvements for Docker & Kubernetes
      • Extended/Easier deployment options with OSC IT/DEP project (SMO/NONRTRIC deployment)
      • O-RAN A1-AP evolution (v3.0)
      • Evolution of A1-EI functions to a more generic Information Coordination functions, moving beyond A1-EI
      • Further improvement in security management
      • Re-architect & improve usability of Non-RT-RIC Control Panel (GUI)
      • Extend NONRTRIC Control Panel to sort and filter A1 Policies
      • Extend NONRTRIC Control Panel to sort and filter A1 Enrichment Types/Jobs
      • Extend NONRTRIC Control Panel to configure A1 Policy Management Service
      • Configurable Service Exposure function – Extends/Replaces static exposure gateway in OSC D-release
      • K8S Helm Chart LCM function for App µServices
      • Update NONRTRIC demo/test environment (one-click tests/use-cases, docker & single/multi-node K8s env)
      • OSC e2e integration use case – O-RU-FH-HelloWorld recovery
        • App to instigate O-RU-FH connection recovery after failure – via O-DU
          • Multiple implementation options – standalone µService and/or deployable ONAP-PF policy script
      • OSC e2e integration use case – O-DU-HelloWorld-SliceAssurance
        
        • Closed loop tuning of RRM policies to assure Slice performance - via O-DU
          • Multiple implementation options – standalone µService and/or deployable ONAP-PF policy script
    • E Release: discussions: (NONRTRIC Wiki Release E)
    • E Release: How to build: (NONRTRIC Wiki Release E - Build)
    • E Release: How to run: (NONRTRIC Wiki Release E - Run)
    • Released Images - NONRTRIC (E-Release)

SIM (Alex Stancu)

• Finalized release
  • E Release (Dec 2021)#Simulators(SIM)

  • Source code: https://gerrit.o-ran-sc.org/r/gitweb?p=sim%2Fo1-interface.git;a=shortlog;h=refs%2Fheads%2Fe-release

  • Container images are described here: Simulation (E-Release)

  • Instructions: Network Slicing Use Case

OAM (Martin Skorupski)

• Finalized release
  • E Release (Dec 2021)#OperationandMaintenance(OAM)

  • Source Code:  OAM master &  OAM Controller features master & ONAP VES Collector master

  • Release Note: in docs: docs.o-ran-sc.org/oam/release-notes (latest)
  • Release Note: in wiki: E-Release notes

O-DU (Hariom Gupta Vidhu Shekhar Pandey)

• Vidhu Shekhar Pandey
• E Release (Dec 2021)#O-DUHigh
• E Release (Dec 2021)#O-DULow
• Integration O-DU-low - O-DU-high done.
• Working on OAM aspects:
  • Is there an openAPI file for SIM CM?
    
    • Martin Skorupski Alex Stancu - this is derived from the Yang File by the controller (ODL)
  • Still working with VES event collection using OSC SMO Ves collector. Will not work with ONAP VES Collector
  • Martin Skorupski CM → can use any ODL-based netconf  controller. Can use ONAP/OSC-OAM Controller/SDNR  or vanilla ODL (Aluminum +)

RSAC/SMO (David Kinsey)

• Brief discussion on options for Release F (&G) requirements planning.
  • Discussions will continue at coming meetings & RSAC committee.
  • RSAC Meetings

OSC Integration / INT (James Li )

• E Release (Dec 2021)#IntegrationandTest(INT)

ONAP SMO deployment options

• Still working on SDK
  • May be an overlap with OTF?  Might be worth looking at in F Release (ref David Kinsey) Open Test Framework (OTF)

ONAP Use cases etc (N.K. Shankaranarayanan)

• N.K. Shankaranarayanan 
  • Meeting: VES formats - Discussing different options   Ref https://jira.onap.org/browse/DCAEGEN2-2987 &  OAM-234 - Getting issue details... STATUS  
  • Links to minutes from ONAP SON use case (Dec 2nd) Meeting:
    • https://wiki.onap.org/display/DW/2021-12-02+Meeting+notes 
    • https://wiki.onap.org/display/DW/SON+use+case+meetings
    • All comments from the discussion are captured and updated in DCAEGEN2-2986
      • (Added afterwards: See also notes at https://wiki.onap.org/display/DW/2021-12-09+Meeting+notes)

Q/A

• Happy Holidays!