Use Case Realization Call: November 13, 2019

Date

13 Nov 2019

Attendees

DISCUSSION ITEMS LOG

DISCUSSION ON PLUGFEST

PLUGFEST WIKI: https://wiki.o-ran-sc.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=7274618

QUESTION: Can we show things already Demoed? Yes. It is good to demo the "basic" stuff because the ORAN people in attendance are new to the ONAP use cases.

QUESTION: Who is the audience? ORAN (new members), ONAP. Held worldwide

QUESTION: How long will we have for each demo? 10 minutes, 5 min of Q&A, + a few minutes for logistics changing of demos.

QUESTION: New S/W Code, Demo R5/R6? No new S/W build is expected

QUESTION: Simulators vs Real DUs? Simulators can be used.

QUESTION: Timeline for development ends end of Oct/beginning of Nov? No new S/W is expected to be developed.

QUESTION: Slideware? Context, give Background. of the 10 min a few minutes to set the stage w/ slides. linkages to ORAN & ORAN S/W community. 3-4 slides Max. ORAN would request a separate break-out sessions for more information.

QUESTION: Commitment from Vendors?

PNF PnP - Nokia ("basic PnP"); Oskar, Ericsson variant of PnP. Samsung; Comscope AirSpan Altiostar. Not all confirmed.
Bulk PM - Ericsson (confirmed). Nokia (may demo).
Basic Fault Flow - WG4 M-Plane Specification. NetConf notifications. O1 FM Data in VES Message format. SCNR development, grab message from DMaaP
Basic Config Flow - Trigger from PNF from Portal; NetConf & VES. Martin Skorupski.
WG4 Open FH - Simulators. MPlane. Two vendors tentative. Interwork with Beijing lab.
SON/OOF/PCI - Two vendors tentative. Altiostar

QUESTION: Actual Demo Day? Thursday December 5, 2019. 10AM EST (USA GMT-5) to Noon.Interworking many labs. ONAP integration PTL Morgan Richomme .

LOCATION: Rutgers WinLab (5G cosmos research foundation testbed)
LOCATION: Orange Lab (Sofia Antipoli France).
LOCATION: AT&T in Washington Redmond (USA).
LOCATION: 5G Testbed in Murray Hill NJ (USA) Nokia.
LOCATION: AT&T Bedminster.

QUESTION: Missing Page OOF/SON/PCI - will be added.

QUESTION: Is there a dedicated Wiki page yet? In O-RAN-SC OAM wiki and SDN-R wiki.

QUESTION: Co-Demoing - ok for multiple companies to demo, that is great, encourage. Good to show that multiple companies are involved in a use case, that there is interest and multiple streams of development.

CO-DEMO LOGISTICS - want to have vendors have equal attention and don't run out of time.

QUESTION: NSF Power initiative (future).

QUESTION: Zoom, recording, Posted to ORAN, ONAP wiki.

QUESTION: Will there be a Panel Discussion? yes we are. details

QUESTION: Schedule - first two days for settings, setup. third day will be a demo day everyone is recording preparing slides.

QUESTION: In person F2F Logistics - details forthcoming. park. contact #s. Address.

QUESTION: What will be demonstrated for the WG4 Demo?

- Show real-equipment w/ WG4 M-Plane YANG files in ORAN S/W gerrit.

- based on NetConf & NetConf notifications.

- Question O1 I/F EMS to controller to EMS via NetConf this is still called O1 I/F?

- there is no EMS in the Opensource PoC. I/F from SDN-R to RU (not DU)

- Vendors starting to support.

- Differs from O1,

LINK TO PLUGFEST:

https://wiki.o-ran-sc.org/display/OAM/Upcoming+PoC+-+week+of+December+2nd+2019

Plug and Play Co-Demoing

Co-Demoing Companies: Ericsson, Nokia, ~~CommScope~~

Showing directly from OWL (Open Wireless Lab / 5G COSMOS) small VM without VPN

Link OWL (5G COSMOS): https://cosmos-lab.org/

Size needed - 2-4 cores, 8GB of RAM, 100 GB Disk.

What to Demo: Nokia would demonstrate the "basic" PnP flow (which was demonstrated a while ago)

PnP PNF Onboarding Process in R5, show artifacts of an existing resource already onboard. use VID to trigger instantiation of service. Show via logs onboarded. Link to onboarding

Ericsson demo:

PNF PnP + NETCONF configuration (step 37)

Location: Ericsson lab

Demo Time Break-down:

30 min overall

5 min overview slides "Spokesperson" Benjamin Cheung PnP w/ simulator (2 slides)

10 min per vendor (20 min): Nokia (Lead show base PnP), Ericsson (NetConf), ~~Comscope~~

5 min for questions

LINK EMERGENCY PRERECORDED DEMO & SLIDES: PNF PLUG and PLAY in R6 Frankfurt

Bulk Performance Management Co-Demoing

Co-Demoing Companies: Ericsson, Nokia, ~~CommScope & NEC~~

What to Demo:

Ericsson demo:

Bulk PM - fileReady event + FTP file collection

Location: Ericsson lab

Nokia will show Bulk PM based on FTPES server.

Demo Time Break-down:

30 min Overall

5 min overview slides "Spokesperson" Oskar Malm

10 min per vendor (20 min) Ericsson (Lead) & Nokia~~, NEC~~

5 min for questions

LINK EMERGENCY PRERECORDED DEMO & SLIDES:

O1 Basic Config

Basic Fault

Co-Demoing Companies: ~~Ericsson~~, Commscope, ~~Samsung, NEC~~

What to Demo:

O1 Basic Fault/Basic Config. trying to demo openRAN alliance published open I/F A1 & O1.

A1 Functionality

Equipment vendors supporting O1 already support VES for FM data.

Basic config 4 vendor support early version of O1 CM can say "support NetConf Yang"

show config from controller.

Ericsson demo:

No separate configuration or fault demo. Configuration is included in the PNF PnP demo.

Demo Time Break-down: 30 min

30 min Overall

5 min overview slides "Spokesperson"

20 min Demo from Commscope

5 min for questions

LINK EMERGENCY PRERECORDED DEMO & SLIDES:

A1 Functionality

(OOF SON PCI)

Co-Demoing Companies: Tech Mahindra, Wipro (Simulator & U/C functionality)

What to Demo: (No Demo in this Plugfest)

Show simplified version of OOF PCI w/ Comscope 1 cell. w/ R2 ONAP.

Only used RAN simulator to now. Sending NC to Comscope will take development.

A1 Functionality with Simulator.

Demo Time Break-down: 20 min

25 min Overall

5 min overview slides "Spokesperson"

15 min Demo

5 min for questions

LINK EMERGENCY PRERECORDED DEMO & SLIDES:

WG4 Open FH Demo

Co-Demoing Companies: Samsung

What to Demo: (Mention)

WG4 would show basic config/fault Open-FH M-Plane style.

Changing a value of a config setting on radio (RU),

generate an alarm (receiving the fault), was demoed in July.

Demo Time Break-down: (Mention). Slides will have links to recording in July 2019

Time & Planning

Rutgers (OWL)

(1) 30 min Plug and Play

(2) 25 min A1 functionality

(3) 30 min Bulk PM

(4) 30 min O1 config (Basic Fault/Basic Config)

(5) 2 min WG4 Open FH M-Plane > 2 min

20min buffer time, next steps, wrap-up, director of WINLAB > 20 min

Each vendor should do Pre-recording (showing their full demo) as fall-backs. Trial Runs.

Thu Dec 5 10AM-11:30AM EDT / Live. Rutgers WINLAB. Brunswick NJ

Demo, Discussion in Morning. Panel in Afternoon.

Demos would in Vendor Labs or in OWL. WINLAB.

Director of WINLAB at the end.

ZOOM LINK Thursday 9:30 - 11:30 AM USA EST → 9:30 - Noon

https://zoom.us/j/436210993 (Host ORAN WG1 Zoom) Martin, Marge, Tracy have host creditentials

Demos in Parallel?

Time Concern

Would it be possible to Demo in Parallel? Would that be possible? WebEx. Run Parallel webEx Recordings.

Worthwhile, if it can be done smoothly.

Time Concern. 9:00 - 11:30 instead (2.5 hours 150min) of 10-11:30 or 2-days instead of 1 day.

Panel Discussion

Pushed out to 1Q 2020

Auditorium in AT&T Middletown NJ, Thursday Afternoon 2-4 PM Videotaping. Widow display/Talking heads. Talking remotely. Video of demo.

Questions posed by a moderator. Each representative from equipment vendors will get to answer.

Local svc providers/operators.

3-4 questions > vendors (agree upon questions)

operators 3-4 questions want moderator to ask.

Who is moderator - Lindon Ong. (will ask if he can host).

Pushed out to 1Q 2020. Request to include ORAN Plugfest in Beijing. Comprehensive Readout.

Getting Access to the Labs

How to get Access to the Labs

SDN-R Proof-of-concepts

ORAN Plugfest Page

https://wiki.o-ran-sc.org/x/egBv

Sophie Antipolis I believe is the town in France. I will look it up.

RECORDING OF DEMOS PLUGFEST

https://zoom.us/recording/play/jbp0ivv4Cs0RwyWM1YiIqHDMXWvnwxCH-Xwh3PCezteHdg_5TRBGmGX-tnvvv4ze?startTime=1575556625000

WINLAB

http://www.winlab.rutgers.edu/

DIRECTIONS:

http://www.winlab.rutgers.edu/about/Directions.html

671 Rt-1

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Directions from I-287: Take exit for Route 1 South. Stay on Route 1 South until you pass Ryders Lane and the entrance to Cook Campus. Once you pass Cook Campus, move to the right lane. The entrance to the Technology Center of New Jersey is 7/10 of a mile down on the right. Exit into the Technology Center and make a left at the stop sign. Follow that road around to the right. Continue to the stop sign. Make a right and you will see Building 671 up on the left (with yellow trim). There are no parking permits required for this parking area.

Directions from Route 18: Take Route 18 North to Route 1 South. Stay on Route 1 South past Ryders Lane and the entrance to Cook Campus. Once you pass Cook Campus, move to the right lane. The entrance to the Technology Center of New Jersey is 7/10 of a mile down on the right. Exit into the Technology Center and make a left at the stop sign. Follow that road around to the right. Continue to the stop sign. Make a right and you will see Building 671 up on the left (with yellow trim). There are no parking permits required for this parking area.