2023-08-22 Meeting notes - Joint OAM / NONRTRIC / SIM Community meeting

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Date

Aug 22, 2023

Attendees

• @John Keeney (Ericsson EST) (Ericsson EST & OSC NONRTRIC)

• @Martin Skorupski (Highstreet & OSC OAM)

• @Alex Stancu (Highstreet & OSC SIM)

• @James Li (CMTI & OSC INT)

• @Joseph Thaliath (Samsung & OSC AIMLFW)

• @Ambrish Singh (Ericsson EST)

• @Kevin Timoney (Ericsson EST)

• @Aravindhan Ayyanathan(Ericsson EST) 

• @Rohith Rajneesh (Ericsson EST)

• @Sonia Sangari (Ericsson EST)

• @Varadarajan (Samsung)

• @Glauco Gonçalves (UFPA) (UFPA)

• @Marian Darula (Ericsson)

• 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 2023-08-22 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

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):

  • This week's TOC (in 2 days):

NONRTRIC (@John Keeney (Ericsson EST))

• Quick Demo: Docker Compose & Scripts to run RAN PM use-case (@Kevin Timoney)

  • See below

• Updating sonar scans and related updates to improve results

  • Requires a couple of tickets etc in LF ... but making good progress

• Making good progress on rApp manager.  (Hope to demo in a couple of weeks)

  • 2 weeks maybe? (@Aravindhan Ayyanathan) 

• 3PP dependency updates & addressing vulnerability

• OpenAPI-first in A1-PMS & ICS

  • Change from code→openapi→docs to openapi → code-stubs & docs

  • To better align with R1 specs as they mature

  • To improve expressiveness of docs etc.

• Some changes in A1-Mediator in near-RT-RIC plt in H-Release.

  • Further investigation needed re effects on A1-PMS/ICS & A1-SIM

  • Will return to this next week.

  • Need to reply to @Thoralf Czichy to give an update. (ref INT project update below)

SIM (@Alex Stancu)

• Upgrading dependencies

• Working on PM streaming

  • especially python-based websockets for streaming etc. (from C)

• I-Release planning

OAM (@Martin Skorupski)

• Request (from RSAC) to make proposal for RAN PM streaming

  • Proposal for a pragmatic draft model

    • Based on 3GPP XSD for PM data

  • PM Streaming 

OSC Integration / INT (@James Li )

• Trying to figure out cross-project integration test requirements
  
  

  • e.g. AIML & NONRTRIC DME

  • e.g. AIML & Energy saving xApp (and rApp?)

  • e.g. Near-RT-RIC PLT & RIC Apps,

    • KPIMON-go, bouncer xapps?

  • e.g. A1 near-RT-RIC ↔ NONRTRIC

    • @John Keeney (Ericsson EST) Currently broken. Still analyzing the effect of changes in near-RT-RIC A1 mediator - and fixes (ref above). Need to reply to @Thoralf Czichy to give an update.

O-DU @Vidhu (Deactivated))

• No update

SMO (@Seshu Kumar Mudiganti )

• Meeting notes Meeting notes

• No Update this week

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

• No update this week

• Minutes: 2024 RSAC Meetings 

AI/ML platform project (@Joseph Thaliath)

• Minutes & Meeting: Meeting notes

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

• Starting I-Release planning & Dev

• Energy Saving usecase

  • Needs a test plan, feature updates, plan, etc.

  • @Martin Skorupski Any update on interactions with ONF on this use case? No. Hope to get more info from @Rittwik Jana. Maybe at RSAC tomorrow?

  • rApp? @John Keeney (Ericsson EST) will speak with @Sunil Kumar 

Demo NONRTRIC RAN PM Function - Docker compose & Scripts (@Kevin Timoney)

• (Recording: @16:55 - 45:20)

• Demo scripts & docker compose to make it much easier to run & experiment with NONRTRIC RAN functions

  • https://gerrit.o-ran-sc.org/r/gitweb?p=nonrtric/plt/ranpm.git;a=tree;f=docker-proj

  • https://github.com/o-ran-sc/nonrtric-plt-ranpm/tree/master/docker-proj#readme 

  • https://docs.o-ran-sc.org/projects/o-ran-sc-nonrtric-plt-ranpm/en/latest/

• Recording

  • Low Res:
    

  • High Res
    

• Earlier Recording:
  
  

  • Low Res:
    

  • High Res:
    

ONAP Update (@N.K. Shankaranarayanan @Seshu Kumar Mudiganti )

• No update this week

ONAP/OSC Usecases (@N.K. Shankaranarayanan)

• No update this week

PM Data Streaming (@Martin Skorupski & All)

• PM Streaming 

  • @John Keeney (Ericsson EST) Looking at PlantUML in PM Streaming to add more detail of NONRTRIC RAN PM functions ... will update later

  • Proposed schema: Based on 3gpp XSD - not the ASN.1 version

    • PM Streaming#DataModel 

      • proto: https://lf-o-ran-sc.atlassian.net/wiki/download/attachments/14680068/o-ran-sc-oam-meas-data.proto?api=v2

      • template: https://lf-o-ran-sc.atlassian.net/wiki/download/attachments/14680068/o-ran-sc-oam-meas-data.template.json?api=v2

Questions / Comments / AOB:

• Ran out of time - but no suggestions

Meeting ends 57min.