2023-05-16 Meeting notes - Joint OAM / NONRTRIC / SIM Community meeting

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Date

16 May 2023

Attendees

• John Keeney (Ericsson EST) (Ericsson EST & OSC NONRTRIC)
• Martin Skorupski (Highstreet & OSC OAM)
• Joseph Thaliath (Samsung & OSC AIMLFW
• Seshu Kumar Mudiganti (Wind River & ONAP & OSC SMO)
• N.K. Shankaranarayanan (ONAP)
• Aravindhan Ayyanathan (Ericsson EST)
• Kevin Timoney (Ericsson EST)
• Marian Darula (Ericsson)
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See also / co-located (ONAP/O-RAN-SC/SMO - Meeting)

• Co-located with ONAP 2023-05-16 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://lf-o-ran-sc.atlassian.net/wiki/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 (Ericsson EST) 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://lf-o-ran-sc.atlassian.net/wiki/display/TOC/#ORANSCTechnicalOversightCommittee(TOC)
  • Last week's TOC (Thursday):
    • Presentation from Sylva project
    • Some reports from project PTLs, but meeting ran over so some of last week topics may continue
  • This week's TOC (Tomorrow):
    • 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

NONRTRIC (John Keeney (Ericsson EST))

• RSAC this week: Will demo Service Registry & Service Discovery - based on CAPIF

  • Working now. Yennifer Chacon 

• RSAC this week: Will demo ONAP SO CNFM function for ASD-packaged CNFs deployment - working in standalone mode.

  • We've removed dependency on SDC and A&AI - replaced with initial stub functions.

  • CNFM in standalone mode gives ASD deployment support - either on its own or as part of a larger ONAP SO/SDC/A&AI install.

  • Propose to demo at joint SMO/SO call tooAravindhan Ayyanathan 

• Continuing work on documentation & deployment for RAN-PM functions
• Hoping to release OSC H & ONAP London functions a bit early, so release preparation & documentation tasks ramping up
• Otherwise continuing as per last week :
  
  • 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)

• Alex Stancu not available this week
• PM File generation
  
  • John Keeney (Ericsson EST) Alex Stancu
  • Ready to start working on PM file generation & serving
  • Std-defined fileReady event should be working now. Will test with NONRTRIC RAN PM file collection & processing
    • To test: Just send VES File Ready, DFC will collect it.
• Working on simpler docker compose files for COSMOS lab & simplifying networking set up
• RTD documentation work

OAM (Martin Skorupski)

O-DU Vidhu)

• No update

OSC Integration / INT (James Li )

• No update

SMO (Seshu Kumar Mudiganti )

• Meeting notes Meeting notes
• Trying to find slot for weekly meeting. Best candidate seems to be weekly @ 13:00UTC - co-located with ONAP SO call.
• Discussions last week about SMO disagregation. Lots still to do & alignment with outer projects.
• Plan to discuss K8s operator in Nephio - maybe May 26th meeting

RSAC (David Kinsey [AT&T] Rittwik Jana )

• Minutes: 2024 RSAC Meetings  (9 May)
  
  • No update
• This week:
  • Plan for NONRTRIC to present:
    • Service Registry & Service Discovery - based on CAPIF
      • Working now. Yennifer Chacon 
    • ONAP SO CNFM function for ASD-pacakaged CNFs deployment - working in standalone mode.
      • Aravindhan Ayyanathan

AI/ML platform project (Joseph Thaliath)

• Minutes & Meeting: Meeting notes

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

• Continuing work on DME integration
  • Working on scripts for QOE prediction use case

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

• Presented plan for proposal
  • Slides : Draft / WIP
  • Need to be a clear that work happens across OSC & ONAP - with some parts 'living' in ONAP and some parts 'living' in OSC
    • make sure to avoid duplication of work by making sure work happens in the right project.

Questions / Comments / AOB:

• No time this week

Meeting ends 60min