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Executive Summary - (Give a short description of your Use Case, the "Executive 2 min elevator pitch", this describes the "WHAT")

Business Impact - (This is the Business Impact which describes why this use case is important from a business perspective, this describes the "WHY").

Business Markets - (This is the marketing analysis, which can include but not limited to applicable markets, domains, marketing projections, this can describe the "WHERE").

Funding/Financial Impacts - (The Funding requirements and Financial impacts can describe the financial savings, or CAPEX, OPEX impacts for a Use Case).

Organization Mgmt, Sales Strategies - (It is suggested that you use the following wording): There is no additional organizational management or sales strategies for this use case outside of a service providers "normal" ONAP deployment and its attendant organizational resources from a service provider. (This would typically describe the "WHO", but because use cases are all deployed with ONAP itself, these two areas come with the actual ONAP deployment and uses the organizational management and sales strategies of a particular service provider's ONAP deployment

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Executive Summary - (Give a short description of your Use Case, the "Executive 2 min elevator pitch", this describes the "WHAT")

Business Impact - (This is the Business Impact which describes why this use case is important from a business perspective, this describes the "WHY").

Business Markets - (This is the marketing analysis, which can include but not limited to applicable markets, domains, marketing projections, this can describe the "WHERE").

Funding/Financial Impacts - (The Funding requirements and Financial impacts can describe the financial savings, or CAPEX, OPEX impacts for a Use Case).

Organization Mgmt, Sales Strategies - (It is suggested that you use the following wording): There is no additional organizational management or sales strategies for this use case outside of a service providers "normal" ONAP deployment and its attendant organizational resources from a service provider. (This would typically describe the "WHO", but because use cases are all deployed with ONAP itself, these two areas come with the actual ONAP deployment and uses the organizational management and sales strategies of a particular service provider's ONAP deployment)

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Executive Summary: 5G Network Slicing is one of the key features of 5G. The essence of Network Slicing is in sharing network resources (PNFs, VNFs, CNFs) while satisfying widely varying and sometimes seemingly contradictory requirements to different customers in an optimal manner. Same network is expected to provide different Quality of Experience to different consumers, use case categories and industry verticals including factory automation, connected home, autonomous vehicles, smart cities, remote healthcare, in-stadium experience and rural broadband. An End-to-End Network Slice consists of RAN, Transport and Core network slice sub-nets. This Use Case intends to demonstrate the modeling, orchestration and assurance of a simple network slice (e.g. eMBB). While 3GPP standards are evolving and 5G RAN and core are being realized, this Use Case will start with realizing an E2E Network Slice with a simple example of a 5G RAN, Core and Transport Network Slice sub-nets. It will also align with relevant standard bodies (e.g., 3GPP, ETSI, TM Forum) as well as other open initiatives such as O-RAN where relevant, w.r.to both interfaces as well as the functional aspects.

Business Impact: Network Slicing is a feature that almost every service provider will leverage. It allows a service provider to improve their network efficiency by maximizing the network throughput more tailored to each user's use of the network. It is seen as an imperative for efficient and optimal use of their network. This will be particularly relevant as 5G is expected to have upwards of 10,000x the traffic load over 4G and 20GB peak data rates.

Business Markets: Network Slicing, for this use case, is specifically aimed at a 5G access, core and transport. In the future, this might be extended to other domains or applications such as fixed-wireless convergence, Wi-Fi access, all aspects of transport including fronthaul, or unified network management orchestration. Network Slicing functionality is what almost every wireless service provider will inevitably find valuable. The concepts and modeling work being done for Network Slicing will find applications in other areas as well. (Industries) Some applications and industries such as smart cities, remote maintenance, video streaming vs life-saving first-responder type applications will demand different requirements from Network slicing. (Markets/Regions) There are no regional specific aspects to Network Slicing.

Funding/Financial Impacts: Network slicing engenders the optimal use of resources for a Network. Thus, this represents OPEX savings for a service provider.

of 5G. The essence of Network Slicing is in sharing network resources (PNFs, VNFs, CNFs) while satisfying widely varying and sometimes seemingly contradictory requirements to different customers in an optimal manner. Same network is expected to provide different Quality of Experience to different consumers, use case categories and industry verticals including factory automation, connected home, autonomous vehicles, smart cities, remote healthcare, in-stadium experience and rural broadband. An End-to-End Network Slice consists of RAN, Transport and Core network slice sub-nets. This Use Case intends to demonstrate the modeling, orchestration and assurance of a simple network slice (e.g. eMBB). While 3GPP standards are evolving and 5G RAN and core are being realized, this Use Case will start with realizing an E2E Network Slice with a simple example of a 5G RAN, Core and Transport Network Slice sub-nets. It will also align with relevant standard bodies (e.g., 3GPP, ETSI, TM Forum) as well as other open initiatives such as O-RAN where relevant, w.r.to both interfaces as well as the functional aspects.

Business Impact: Network Slicing is a feature that almost every service provider will leverage. It allows a service provider to improve their network efficiency by maximizing the network throughput more tailored to each user's use of the network. It is seen as an imperative for efficient and optimal use of their network. This will be particularly relevant as 5G is expected to have upwards of 10,000x the traffic load over 4G and 20GB peak data rates.

Business Markets: Network Slicing, for this use case, is specifically aimed at a 5G access, core and transport. In the future, this might be extended to other domains or applications such as fixed-wireless convergence, Wi-Fi access, all aspects of transport including fronthaul, or unified network management orchestration. Network Slicing functionality is what almost every wireless service provider will inevitably find valuable. The concepts and modeling work being done for Network Slicing will find applications in other areas as well. (Industries) Some applications and industries such as smart cities, remote maintenance, video streaming vs life-saving first-responder type applications will demand different requirements from Network slicing. (Markets/Regions) There are no regional specific aspects to Network Slicing.

Funding/Financial Impacts: Network slicing engenders the optimal use of resources for a Network. Thus, this represents OPEX savings for a service provider.

Organization Mgmt, Sales Strategies: There is no additional organizational management or sales strategies for this use case outside of a service providers "normal" ONAP deployment and its attendant organizational resources from a service provider.

Smart Operator Intent Translation in UUI based on IBN - R8 5G Slicing Support

R8 PRESENTATION:

Key Contacts - Dong Wang Xin Zhang Huang ZongHe

Executive Summary - Intent-based network (IBN) is a self-driving network that uses decoupling network control logic and closed-loop orchestration techniques to automate application intents. An IBN is an intelligent network, which can automatically convert, verify, deploy, configure, and optimize itself to achieve target network state according to the intent of the operators, and can automatically solve abnormal events to ensure the network reliability. In R8, the smart operator intent translation function is proposed to support the 5G slicing selection of current E2E usecase in UUI.

Business Impact - In 5G networks, dozens of slice templates will be created to support different SLA requirements. It is difficult for the operators to select the target slice and create the slice instance manually. The IBN based smart operator intent translation function is applied to select the target slice automatically and accurately.

Business Markets - Currently, the smart operator intent translation function is developed to support the 5G slice selection. In the further releases, it will be improved to support multiple network configurations in ONAP.

Funding/Financial Impacts - This function will have OPEX savings by selecting more accurately slices to save the network resources, and decreasing the labor cost using automation technology.

Organization Mgmt, Sales Strategies -There is no additional organizational management or sales strategies for this requirement outside of a service providers "normal" ONAP deployment and its attendant organizational resources from a service provider. 

PM Data Collection Control: Subscription update

Key Contacts - Mark Scott, Zu Qiang (Ericsson), Michela Bevilacqua

Executive Summary - PM data collection control provides network operators with a dynamic and more efficient way to configure performance measurement collection on a selected subset of  PNFs/VNFs in the network and complements the existing PM data collection and processing capabilities in ONAP/DCAE. An initial version has been delivered in Rel 6 (REQ-129) then enhanced in Rel 7 (REQ-381). Planned enhancements for Rel 8 intend to improve the (PMSH) subscription management about subscription update.

Business Impact - PM control is a critical business function because it is vital to enable the PM data collection in ONAP.

Business Markets - All operators and service providers that want to use ONAP for PM data collection.

Funding/Financial Impacts - PM data collection control can provide OPEX savings for operators due to increased automation of a critical function. 

Organization Mgmt, Sales Strategies -There is no additional organizational management or sales strategies for this requirement outside of a service providers "normal" ONAP deployment and its attendant organizational resources from a service provider. 

PNF Software Upgrade enhancement

Key Contacts -  Zu Qiang (Ericsson)

Executive Summary - In Rel 6 (REQ-84) and Rel 7 (REQ-324), PNF sw upgrade requirement in ONAP has progressed covering both with/without schema updates. A schema update in relation to a xNF software upgrades is a routine for network upgrade to support new xNF features, improve efficiency or increase xNF capacity on the field, and to  eliminate bugs.  This use case provides to ONAP an advantage in orchestrating and managing the Life Cycle of a Network Services in-line with business and service objectives. In Rel 8, the feature will be enhanced with PNF sw version management during sw upgrade procedure.

Business Impact - Deployment and orchestration of new services over CNFs,  VNFs and PNFs in a model and software driven way simplifies the network management. Enables operators and service providers to manage the Life Cycle of a Network Service. Assuring continuity of operation of services is crucial for production and carrier grade environments. The actualization or upgrades of software and in consequence required changes in the service model is a natural part of service instance life cycle. Without the support of ONAP service update with schema change, service life cycle management by ONAP can be very difficult which can impact the quality and continuity of services.

Business Markets - All operators and service providers that are using ONAP for service and network function Life Cycle Management

Funding/Financial Impacts -  Reduction in operations expense from using industry standard Interfaces.

Organization Mgmt, Sales Strategies -There is no additional organizational management or sales strategies for this requirement outside of a service providers "normal" ONAP deployment and its attendant organizational resources from a service provider. 

A1 Adapter and Policy Management Extension (ORAN/ONAP/3GPP Harmonization)

Key Contacts -  John Keeney, Michela Bevilacqua

Executive Summary - This requirement enhances the A1 interface capabilities provided in Rel 6 as part of  5G/ORAN & 3GPP Standards Harmonization requirement ( REQ-38) and extended in Rel 7 with the introduction of A1 policy management.   O-RAN has defined A1 interface specification in the context of the management of 5G RAN elements to provide intent based policies for optimization of the RAN network performance. Planned enhancements for Rel 8 include support of new A1 interface version in alignment to O-RAN alliance and common logging/audit.

Business Impact - Continuing the convergency between ONAP and ORAN for A1 interface to used by all service providers and avoid duplicate development efforts.

Business Markets - Enhanced A1 capabilities, once developed, will be useable by any service provider deploying and using ONAP.

Funding/Financial Impacts -  A1 interface provides a flexible way for the operator to manage wide area RAN network optimization, reducing capex investment needs.

Organization Mgmt, Sales Strategies -There Organization Mgmt, Sales Strategies: There is no additional organizational management or sales strategies for this use case requirement outside of a service providers "normal" ONAP deployment and its attendant organizational resources from a service provider.

Smart Operator Intent Translation in UUI based on IBN - R8 5G Slicing Support

Support for Vertical Industry 

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Key Contacts -  Dong Wang Xin Zhang Huang ZongHe  Cheng Huang,yaoguang wang

Executive Summary - Intent-based network (IBN) is a self-driving network that uses decoupling network control logic and closed-loop orchestration techniques to automate application intents. An IBN is an intelligent network, which can automatically convert, verify, deploy, configure, and optimize itself to achieve target network state according to the intent of the operators, and can automatically solve abnormal events to ensure the network reliability. In R8, the smart operator intent translation function is proposed to support the 5G slicing selection of current E2E usecase in UUI.

Business Impact - In 5G networks, dozens of slice templates will be created to support different SLA requirements. It is difficult for the operators to select the target slice and create the slice instance manually. The IBN based smart operator intent translation function is applied to select the target slice automatically and accurately.

Business Markets - Currently, the smart operator intent translation function is developed to support the 5G slice selection. In the further releases, it will be improved to support multiple network configurations in ONAP.

 Vertical Industry is one of the greatest potential 5G markets. In order to deploy 5G network in an efficient way, vertical industry may choose to rent the network resources from the service operators. Therefore, the service operators should provide O&M capabilities for multiple vertical industries. When one specific operator manages multiple vertical industry networks, its OM system needs to distinguish vertical industry’s resources. This requirement propose to help operators to manage multiple vertical industry networks using ONAP. In R8, it will start with managing the relations between providers and consumers (vertical industry) of network resources..

Business Impact - Vertical industry networks contain various combinations of resources, such as VNFs, PNFs, and edge computing resources. Providing one unified OM platform is the most efficient way to satisfy various vertical industry’s requirements. ONAP can be a great automation management platform for 5G vertical industry.

Business Markets - All operators and service providers that want to use ONAP to support the management of vertical industry networks.

Funding/Financial Impacts - Reduce the operation expense while providing Network O&M service for different vertical industriesFunding/Financial Impacts - This function will have OPEX savings by selecting more accurately slices to save the network resources, and decreasing the labor cost using automation technology.

Organization Mgmt, Sales Strategies -  There is no additional organizational management or sales strategies for this requirement use case outside of a service providers "normal" ONAP deployment and its attendant organizational resources from a service provider. 

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Intent Framework and Intent Modeling in R8 

Key Contacts - Mark Scott, Zu Qiang (Ericsson), Michela Bevilacqua

Executive Summary - PM data collection control provides network operators with a dynamic and more efficient way to configure performance measurement collection on a selected subset of  PNFs/VNFs in the network and complements the existing PM data collection and processing capabilities in ONAP/DCAE. An initial version has been delivered in Rel 6 (REQ-129) then enhanced in Rel 7 (REQ-381). Planned enhancements for Rel 8 intend to improve the (PMSH) subscription management about subscription update.

 yaoguang wang , Xianming Li, Dong Wang, Huang ZongHe

Executive Summary -  In R7, Intent technology was proposed as a proof-of-concept (REQ-329). It can be viewed as one of most promising solutions for towards autonomous network. This requirement propose to enhance ONAP with intent framework, which may contains intent translation, intent execution and intent decision etc. We would like to provide more POCs around it, and propose to be one of ONAP component or sub-component in the future. In R8, the requirement will provide the internal reference architecture and interacting with other ONAP components, and also introduce intent modeling for specific use cases.

Business Impact - It is a valuable business function that can furthermore reduce the operation expense in terms of automation managementBusiness Impact - PM control is a critical business function because it is vital to enable the PM data collection in ONAP.

Business Markets - All operators and service providers that want to use ONAP for PM data collectionnetwork management.

Funding/Financial Impacts - PM data collection control can provide OPEX savings for operators due to increased automation of a critical function.  Reduction in operations expense from using procedural while complex operations to using intent-driven declarative operations.

Organization Mgmt, Sales Strategies -  There is no additional organizational management or sales strategies for this requirement use case outside of a service providers "normal" ONAP deployment and its attendant organizational resources from a service provider. 

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Automatic testing platform in R8 

Key Contacts -  Zu Qiang (Ericsson) Yan Yang  , Lei Huang 

Executive Summary - In Rel 6 (REQ-84) and Rel 7 (REQ-324), PNF sw upgrade requirement in ONAP has progressed covering both with/without schema updates. A schema update in relation to a xNF software upgrades is a routine for network upgrade to support new xNF features, improve efficiency or increase xNF capacity on the field, and to  eliminate bugs.  This use case provides to ONAP an advantage in orchestrating and managing the Life Cycle of a Network Services in-line with business and service objectives. In Rel 8, the feature will be enhanced with PNF sw version management during sw upgrade procedure.

Business Impact - Deployment and orchestration of new services over CNFs,  VNFs and PNFs in a model and software driven way simplifies the network management. Enables operators and service providers to manage the Life Cycle of a Network Service. Assuring continuity of operation of services is crucial for production and carrier grade environments. The actualization or upgrades of software and in consequence required changes in the service model is a natural part of service instance life cycle. Without the support of ONAP service update with schema change, service life cycle management by ONAP can be very difficult which can impact the quality and continuity of services.

Business Markets - All operators and service providers that are using ONAP for service and network function Life Cycle Management

Funding/Financial Impacts -  Reduction in operations expense from using industry standard Interfaces.

Organization Mgmt, Sales Strategies -There is no additional organizational management or sales strategies for this requirement outside of a service providers "normal" ONAP deployment and its attendant organizational resources from a service provider. 

A1 Adapter and Policy Management Extension (ORAN/ONAP/3GPP Harmonization)

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Key Contacts -  John Keeney, Michela Bevilacqua

Executive Summary - This requirement enhances the A1 interface capabilities provided in Rel 6 as part of  5G/ORAN & 3GPP Standards Harmonization requirement ( REQ-38) and extended in Rel 7 with the introduction of A1 policy management.   O-RAN has defined A1 interface specification in the context of the management of 5G RAN elements to provide intent based policies for optimization of the RAN network performance. Planned enhancements for Rel 8 include support of new A1 interface version in alignment to O-RAN alliance and common logging/audit.

Business Impact - Continuing the convergency between ONAP and ORAN for A1 interface to used by all service providers and avoid duplicate development efforts.

Business Markets - Enhanced A1 capabilities, once developed, will be useable by any service provider deploying and using ONAP.

  The goal of this requirement is to provide common test platform through the augment of ONAP components to support VNF/CNF/Service automated testing , including auto design ,auto deploy, auto testing, auto analysis & certification. In ONAP Gulin release, proposed testing automation requirements and completed the function enhancement of ONAP components for the VNF test scenario. In order to support more SUT testing(PNF/CNF/Service, etc )and more automated goals, ONAP functions need continuous improvement. In R8, the requirement will mainly propose to support CNF/Service  automated testing, test case design and test case scheduling optimization.

Business Impact - There are a large number of cross-department and cross-organization communications during the traditional network element, system or equipment network access test. And the manual errors are inevitable, the knowledge in test field cannot be solidified. The cost of each test is high and the test cycle is always long. After introducing NFV, because network element software and hardware equipment are layered decoupled, the introduction of a large number of open source components as well as the frequent upgrade of the software itself, make network access test become more complicated and frequent. Testing has become a bottleneck during the introduction and iteration of new technologies. Therefore, it is urgent to introduce automatic testing platform to reduce labor costs, improve test efficiency and test accuracy , which can help reduce labor costs, shorten test cycle, improve test efficiency and optimize test accuracy.

Business Markets - After enabling NFV Automatic testing with ONAP, CSPs can leverage it to accelerate time to deployment for new network services, improve interoperability and software quality, and reduce in-house testing effort and reduce costs. Vendor can leverage it to deduce the cost of VNF developing, and improve time to revenue for new product offerings, achieve greater alignment with customer requirements from service provider, and demonstrate product quality through open ecosystem testing. Instrument manufacturers can integrate their test tools and test capabilities into this platform, and demonstrate product quality through open ecosystem testing. Integrators can refer to the open source implementation of this platform and provide solutions for their commercial products. At the same time, the ONAP-based NFV automatic testing platform can be combined with OVP's existing processes to accelerate the testing and certification of OVP NFV commercial products.

Funding/Financial Impacts -Reduce the labor costs in traditional NFV test process and the R & D costs of NFV commercial products, as well as shorten the benefit reaping period of new products, and improve test efficiencyFunding/Financial Impacts -  A1 interface provides a flexible way for the operator to manage wide area RAN network optimization, reducing capex investment needs.

Organization Mgmt, Sales Strategies -  There is no additional organizational management or sales strategies for this requirement use case outside of a service providers "normal" ONAP deployment and its attendant organizational resources from a service provider. 

Support for Vertical Industry 

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R8 PRESENTATION:

Key Contacts -   Cheng Huang,yaoguang wangHenry Yu LIN MENG

Executive Summary - Vertical Industry is one of the greatest potential 5G markets. In order to deploy 5G network in an efficient way, vertical industry may choose to rent the network resources from the service operators. Therefore, the service operators should provide O&M capabilities for multiple vertical industries. When one specific operator manages multiple vertical industry networks, its OM system needs to distinguish vertical industry’s resources. This requirement propose to help operators to manage multiple vertical industry networks using ONAP. In R8, it will start with managing the relations between providers and consumers (vertical industry) of network resources..

Business Impact - Vertical industry networks contain various combinations of resources, such as VNFs, PNFs, and edge computing resources. Providing one unified OM platform is the most efficient way to satisfy various vertical industry’s requirements. ONAP can be a great automation management platform for 5G vertical industry.

Business Markets - All operators and service providers that want to use ONAP to support the management of vertical industry networks.

 - An End-to-End 5G Network Slice consists of RAN, Transport and Core network slice sub-nets. This requirement is devoted to the realization Transport Slice sub-nets. It implements TN NSSMF, of which the functionality includes the modeling, orchestration and assurance of a Transport Slice. While TN NSSMF is a self-contained entity and thus this requirement can be independent, ensuring the integration with the E2E Network Slicing is an important aspect of this requirement. Standards-based interfaces and architectural framework (e.g., ETSI ZSM, IETF) are used by this requirement.

Business Impact - This requirement is important because Transport Slicing is an essential feature of the overall E2E Network Slicing, whose value is stated in its requirement.

Business Markets - Transport Slicing is an essential feature of Network Slicing. Any operators who would like to deploy ONAP-based Network Slicing solution will require this feature. Equally important, this feature (ONAP TN NSSMF) is self-contained and deployable. Thus, an operator who wishes to deploy an ONAP-based TN NSSMF may also benefit from it.

Funding/Financial Impacts - Transport slicing provides service automation, assurance, and the optimal use of network resources. Thus, it helps reduce OPEX for a service providerFunding/Financial Impacts - Reduce the operation expense while providing Network O&M service for different vertical industries.

Organization Mgmt, Sales Strategies - There is no additional organizational management or sales strategies for this use case outside of a service providers "normal" ONAP deployment and its attendant organizational resources from a service provider .