2020-02-27 Meeting notes - E2 Simulator enhancements for Traffic Steering use case

2020-02-27 Meeting notes - E2 Simulator enhancements for Traffic Steering use case

Date

Feb 27, 2020

Attendees

  • @Alex Stancu

  • @Former user (Deleted)

  • @harrytran (Harry)

  • @Eliza Celenti

  • @Martin Skorupski

Goals

  • Assess if E2 Simulator can be enhanced to support Traffic Steering use case

Discussion items

Time

Item

Who

Notes

Time

Item

Who

Notes

5min

E2 Simulator current status

@all

  • Current E2 Simulator capabilities:

    •  setup

    • subscription

    • indication

 5min

Enhancing E2 Simulator 

@all 

  •  Before specific enhancements for Traffic Steering use case:

    • WG3 alignment for E2 Simulator

      • Harry estimates 2-3 weeks in his case

      • we need to find another resource to work on this

    • E2 Service Model - need sample message from production for integration in Simulator

10min

New resource needed for E2 Sim development

@all

  • We need to define work items for the resource

  • We need to find a new resource to work on the enhancement of E2 Sim

  • The new resource can align with Harry wrt the code and details

10min

UE Simulator in OSNL (Berlin lab)

@all

  • Viavi UE Simulator (TM500) is present in OSNL

  • Need to check if UE Sim handles RF measurements

  • Assess if flat files can be generated by the UE Sim

  • Generate flat files with RF reports

    • define 7-8 cells

    • define concentration of users - static users in first phase

    • start RAN simulation 

    • generate RF reports

5min

E2 Simulator flat file replay

@all

  • After flat file with RF reports is available, E2 Simulator will be able to feed the data to the RIC xApps 

Action items

@harrytran define work items for new developer Feb 27, 2020 
@Alex Stancu send out email requesting for a new resource to the O-RAN-SC mailing list Feb 28, 2020 
@Alex Stancu check with @Martin Skorupski the details wrt the Viavi UE Simulator in OSNL Feb 28, 2020