2024-09-17 Meeting notes - Joint OAM / NONRTRIC / SIM Community meeting

Time & Location:

• Time Change: This meeting is now 1 hour later - 15:00 UTC on Tuesdays

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Date

Sep 17, 2024

Attendees

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

• @Martin Skorupski (Highstreet & OSC OAM)

• @Alex Stancu (Highstreet & OSC SIM)

• Subhash Kumar Singh (@subhash) (Samsung & OSC AIMLFW)

• @Sridhar Rao (LF)

• @Swaraj Kumar (Samsung)

• @Aravindhan Ayyanathan (Ericsson EST)

• @Francesco Davide Lapenta (Ericsson EST)

• @RAVITEJA KARUMURI (EST) (Ericsson EST)

• Ashwin Puthenpura (page)

• Srinivas Yanamadala (Tech Mahindra)

• Varadarajan Srinivasan  @Varadarajan (Samsung)

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

• Co-located with ONAP 2024-09-17 Meeting notes (ONAP/O-RAN-SC/SMO - Meeting) 

Contents

Recording

Notes:

Housekeeping:

• Calendar: 

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

  • https://lists.onap.org/g/onap-meetings/calendar

• Time Change:

  • This meeting is now 1 hour later - 15:00 UTC

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

  • 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 & OSFG calls last week

• TOC:

  • https://lf-o-ran-sc.atlassian.net/wiki/display/TOC/#ORANSCTechnicalOversightCommittee(TOC)

  • Last week's TOC (Thursday):

    •  

  • This week's TOC (in 2 days):

    • Would like to discuss if the issue with Insights portal data is closer to a solution (@Sridhar Rao also working on this)

    • Need to populate agenda for F2F demos Release "K"#Content 

• OSFG:

  • Alignment of OSFG messages across different events until the end of the year

NONRTRIC (@John Keeney (Ericsson EST))

• Still working away on issue from previous weeks:

  •  A1-Controller

    • Finally got several changes merged, and now need to do service releases in ONAP and OSC.

  • Service Manager

    • Hoping to discuss/demo (below) boot-strap service exposures at SMO start-up - but its proving a bit more difficult than expected.

    • Manual registration via API is still working fine - but currently all Services need to be explicitly registered rather than auto-registered.

  • Getting started on sample rApps ... starting now

    • First ones will include AIML use cases. See below.

  • Working with AIML team to get platform integrated for QOE E2E demo. See below.

• Working with LF to enable Maven 3.8+ in OSC Jenkins

SIM (@Alex Stancu)

• Making good progress for Hybrid & Hierarchical OAM & demo at F2f - including interesting issues like VES message translation.

  • Hybrid and Hierarchical OAM Architecture

    • Working with to support multiple O-RUs calling home to O-DU

    • Having O-RU supporting both Hybrid & hierarchical (connecting to O-DU and/or SMO in parallel)

OAM (@Martin Skorupski)

• Still working on Yang models

• Working on a issue with Cert Management for OAM

• Continuing some activity on topology - esp O-RAN view etc.

  • Will meet with @John Keeney (Ericsson EST) about maybe integrating some additional topology information in TEIV & integrating with existing models

    • Aim for Friday morning?

AI/ML platform project (@subhash )

• Minutes & Meeting: Meeting notes

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

• Registering AIMLFW service to NONRTRIC Service Manger (SME)

  • Hit a few problems but making good progress now.

  • Working together with NONRTRIC Team

    • Having a problem with multiple path parameters in a URL.

      • @Swaraj Kumar will send on logs etc to try diagnose.

• Working on integrating AIMLFW & NONRTRIC rApps for F2F.

  • Working in RanPM deployment & integration

  • Working with NONRTRIC team on QOE rApp & platform integration.

SMO (@Seshu Kumar Mudiganti)

• Meeting notes Meeting notes

• No specific update

  • Working with @Martin Skorupski to prepare demo videos for F2F

• Topology & Inventory: (@John Keeney (Ericsson EST) :

  • Will meet with @Martin Skorupski about maybe integrating some additional topology information in TEIV & integrating with existing models

    • Aim for Friday morning?

  • Added some more info on deploying your own models:

    • Release J - How to Run TEIV with Your Models

    • (Useful for discussion with @Martin Skorupski - above)

  • Added support & documentation for how to add classifiers/decorators to Topology entries.

    • https://docs.o-ran-sc.org/projects/o-ran-sc-smo-teiv/en/latest/classifiers-and-decorators.html 

  • Working on a sample rApp to demonstrate TEIV

  • Will be adding new models ASAP - with clear O-RAN aligned RAN model (e.g. remove 4G & integrated gNB)

  • From Last week - Still ongoing

    • Need to start working with others in OSC & beyond to help populate TEIV registry with data from their 'sources of truth'

    • Hope to make alot of use of TEIV in demos/rapps in K-Release

    • Refs:

      • doc: https://docs.o-ran-sc.org/projects/o-ran-sc-smo-teiv/en/latest/data-models-guide.html

      • code: https://gerrit.o-ran-sc.org/r/gitweb?p=smo/teiv.git;a=tree;f=teiv/src/main/resources/models

OSC Integration / INT (@fransiscus bimo )

• Minutes: https://lf-o-ran-sc.atlassian.net/wiki/display/IAT/Current+Meetings

• Difficult for @fransiscus bimo to join this meeting, but martin will update if anything interesting pops up

• Bimo has some question on AIML support in integration env. e.g. How to integrate NVidia hardware? 

  • https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jinsung-choi-48a8b61_oran-openran-orangpt-activity-7189503232971276288-UqMa 

  • Some details seem to have been removed since ... but should give a good idea what is happening.

RSAC (@Rittwik Jana  @Martin Skorupski )

• Minutes: 2024 RSAC Meetings 

• Need help populating demos page for F2F

  • Release "K"#Content 

  • Action: @John Keeney (Ericsson EST) @subhash @Martin Skorupski @Alex Stancu

Questions / Comments / AOB:

• ios-mcn.org @Sridhar Rao

  • New Research/Academic project from some partners in India

    • Will be more formally announced at India Mobile Congress (Mid Oct)

  • Focus on open-RAN integration

    • @Sridhar Rao will focus on OAM (PM, FM, CM) to showcase OAI, ONAP, OSC ONF

    • Welcome to Ashwin

      • Working on the configuration/CM usecase/app in SDNR  (ODLUX) - mentioned in prev weeks.

      • Will work with @Martin Skorupski about how to build the SDNR functions etc.

Meeting ends 41 min