2021-05-12 Meeting notes - Joint OAM / NONRTRIC / SIM SCRUM meeting

2021-05-12 Meeting notes - Joint OAM / NONRTRIC / SIM SCRUM meeting

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Meeting Detail: Times & Joining Info

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  • Meeting ID: 890 6970 8424.

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Date

May 12, 2021

Attendees

  • @John Keeney (Ericsson EST)

  • @Martin Skorupski

  • @Alex Stancu

  • @Andy Mayer

  • @Former user (Deleted)

  • @Dibas Das

  • Fernando (Fred) Oliveira

  • Gervais-Martial Ngueko (AT&T)

  • @Hariom Gupta (Deactivated)

  • @James Li

  • @Kamel Idir

  • @Konrad Bańka

  • @Krystian Kedron

  • @Lasse Kaihlavirta

  • @marcin krasowski

  • N K Shankar

  • @Pawel Slowikowski

  • @Sonia Sangari

  • @Swaminathan S

  • @Timo Perala

  • Sorry - didn't manage to get a full attendees list for this meeting  ... please add/remove yourself

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

Contents:

 

Recording

Notes:

Housekeeping:

  • Reminder from previous weeks:

  • O-RAN has declared that recording are kept for 2 weeks only. Does this apply to us? 

    • Is this a requirement, a privacy issue or a cost issue?

    • Not sure - the recording storage quota that we use is currently full - so we may need to delete old cloud recording?

    • All past recording are also available as files uploaded to the wiki pages - May be a  storage issue later, but no plans to delete as yet.

OSC Project roundup:

NONRTRIC (@John Keeney (Ericsson EST))

  • Continuing work as reported in past weeks - working toward OSC D code freeze

    • We are testing a first version of a script for the O-RU recovery use case - Script version and ONAP-Policy version

    • Finishing touches to Control Panel upgrade activities

  • Integration tasks will likely run over into the Integration sprints. - e.g. deployment scripts, tests, etc.

SIM (@Alex Stancu)

OAM (@Martin Skorupski)

LFN ONAP Honolulu Webinar

Topology Modelling

  • @Andy Mayer - Confident work on topology modelling will be a big help for slicing. Can including slicing concepts in Topolgy model

  • https://wiki.onap.org/display/DW/Abstract+Topology+Model

  • Karthik (?) working with @Andy Mayer around TAPI topology model

  • @Alex Stancu working on a service to expose TAPI models for topology modelling - Research activity - can hopefully make available in opensource & maybe input for O1?

    • @Andy Mayer MEF are already looking at this - based on TAPI (part of Presto API) - especially for Ethernet etc - could be extended into a general topology model? Could/Should coordinate ONAP/O-RAN & MEF?

    • @Alex Stancu Wondering if anyone knows if TAPI will move to Yang 1.1 (currently 1.0)? - Should ask Karthik? - Could ask at ONF/TAPI call on Tuesday or ONAP modelling call on Friday?

  • Discussion about implementing a Topology Service:

    • Is it an O1 and A1 activity? : @John Keeney (Ericsson EST) O1 is most useful for RAN topology

    • @John Keeney (Ericsson EST) Most important to have a solid model first before implementing. Service that the SMO should provide.

    • Also need to consider core, transport topology too - so not just O-RAN.

  • @Andy Mayer Needs to be use case driven

    • Proposed model sketch: https://wiki.onap.org/display/DW/Proposed+Topology+IM+Sketch - but needs to be used/populated to verify.

    • NK Shankar: Is TAPI the best place to start? Maybe should start with something simple - e.g for the SON use case - cells, neighbors, etc is very different from actual connections (logical vs physical views)

      • Likely need simplified logical views .

      • @Andy Mayer Best to sketch out some use cases - will verify model & drive requirements.

      • @John Keeney (Ericsson EST) Probably need a well-thought out base/canonical model to act a base for other logical view.

        • Source of truth is config data (O1) and Inventory.

      • NK Shankar - This is very hard to achieve - simpler logical views is easier to achieve & work with @John Keeney (Ericsson EST) Needs to be grounded in reality though

      • @John Keeney (Ericsson EST) For example for NON-RT-RIC use cases we need live topology information about UEs - which makes the topology service very difficult!

      • NK Shankar - lots of layers/views - probably can't implement the whole thing from scratch - need to make simplifications.

  • Needs further discussion at ONAP Modelling subcommittee meeting https://wiki.onap.org/display/DW/Modeling+sub-committee+meetings

O-RAN F2F - 01-14 June 2021

  • No update

ONAP Q/A

  • @Vidhu (Deactivated) - Needs access to O-RAN SC lab lab to try O-DU for integration tests to test/demo O-DU. O-DU runs in a VM directly - not a Docker image so a but difficult to do without lab access.

    • @Martin Skorupski Can try help get access to VMs to test.

    • @Vidhu (Deactivated) to @Martin Skorupski Please check out the Gerrit review for the VES event producer etc.

Follow up note:

  • @Swaminathan S - who had to leave the meeting midway -  informed us all recently that he is changing roles

    • We are sorry to see him go. Thanks for helping alot with this meeting series over the past few months.