Functional view
Note: Priority 1 items are proposed to be part of Honolulu. Priority 2 items will be considered as "Stretch goals".
Track | Details | Impacted Component(s) | Companies | Priority |
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Guilin functional enhancements | Completion of remaining Guilin Integration Tests, fixing of related bugs (across all tracks |
) |
UUI, SO, OOF, SDN-C/CCSDK, DCAE, Policy, ExtAPI | CMCC, Wipro, Tech Mahindra, TIM, Huawei, LTTS | 1 | |
Endpoint related enhancements (NSMF, RAN/Core/TN NSSMF) | UUI, SO, OOF, SDN-C/CCSDK | CMCC, Wipro, Tech Mahindra, TIM, Huawei | 1 |
3GPP API alignment (Service/Slice Profile - e.g., coverageArea and coverageAreaTAList), modeling enhancements, minor workflow enhancements for NSMF, all 3 NSSMFs and NSSMF adaptor for e2e network slice |
SO, |
AAI | CMCC, Wipro, Tech Mahindra, Huawei | 1 | ||
NST selection enhancement | OOF | Huawei, Wipro | 1 | |
Use of resource occupancy levels in NSI/NSSI for NSI/NSSI selection (involves collecting and storing/analyzing the data, and then using this info for NSI/NSSI selection) (ArchCom) | DCAE (to be confirmed), SO, OOF | Wipro | 2 | |
TMF 641 alignment for Slice LCM | UUI | CMCC | 2 | |
RAN Slicing | A1 interface for Closed Loop and Intelligent Slicing | SDN-R/CCSDK | Wipro, IBM | 1 |
RAN Slice resource (re)allocation, Slice profile decomposition at Near-RT RIC level | SDN-R/CCSDK, OOF | Wipro, IBM | 1 | |
Coverage Area to TA mapping | SO/OOF? | Wipro | 1 | |
RAN Service enhancements, including service instantiation actions | SO, SDN-R/CCSDK | Wipro | 2 | |
3GPP specs related enhancements including yang updates | SDN-R/CCSDK | Wipro, IBM | 2 | |
Use of CPS instead of Config DB | SDN-R, DCAE | Wipro, IBM | 2 | |
Core Slicing | Enhancements to Core NF configuration | SO, CDS | Tech Mahindra, TIM | 1 |
Core NF placement | SO, OOF | Tech Mahindra, Wipro | 2 | |
Transport Slicing |
- Endpoints and transport connectivity related aspects, for e.g., parameters required to be passed to TN NSSMF (how they shall be determined), MP to MP connection, etc.
- Transport NSSI selection and reuse
Enhancements related to TN NSSI reuse, considering occupancy levels, modification of associated NSSI with SLA, etc. | SO, SDN-C/CCSDK | Huawei | 1 |
TN model enhancements, alignment to SDOs | SO, AAI, SDN-C | Huawei | 2 |
Support of MP to MP connection | SO, OOF, SDN-C | Huawei, Wipro | 2 |
KPI Monitoring | Complete |
PM-mapper/new MS with all required functionality for KPI computation (ArchCom) | DCAE | CMCC | 1 |
Computation of KPIs at NSI/NSSI level, policy-driven list of KPIs | DCAE | CMCC | 2 |
Retrieval of historic KPI values for Closed Loop and by UUI | DCAE | CMCC, Wipro | 2 |
TMF 628 API support for KPI monitoring (ArchCom) | ExtAPI, UUI | Wipro | 2 |
Aggregator function (to aggregate data from all NFs of same type, otherwise KPI computation logic to be refined) (ArchCom) | ??? | ??? | 2 |
Closed Loop | Closed Loop scenario involving RAN and Core - details being worked out |
- Closed Loop involving RAN and Core
- Split intelligence, with guidance coming over A1
SO, DCAE, SDN-R/CCSDK | Wipro (RAN, RAN Simulator), IBM (SDN-R), LTTS (Core NF Simulator) | 1 | ||
Intelligent Slicing | Enhance existing scenario with Core | DCAE, SDN-R/CCSDK | Wipro, IBM | 1 |
Modeling enhancements |
| SDC, AAI, SO | CMCC, Amdocs, Wipro | 1 |
Component view
Note: Only Priority 1 items are listed.
Component | Impacts | Commitment |
---|---|---|
AAI |
| CMCC, Huawei |
SDN-C/CCSDK |
| Huawei |
SDN-R/CCSDK |
| IBM, Wipro |
SO |
| CMCC (NSMF), Wipro (RAN NSSMF), Tech Mahindra (Core NSSMF), TIM (Core NSSMF), Huawei (TN NSSMF) |
OOF |
| Wipro, Huawei |
Policy |
| Wipro |
ExtAPI |
| Wipro |
DCAE |
| Wipro (Slice Analysis MS), CMCC (PM Mapper/New MS and DES) |
UUI |
| CMCC |
Config DB/CPS |
| Wipro |