2020-10-07 Meeting notes (ONAP/O-RAN-SC/SMO - Meeting)

Next meeting: 2020-10-14

Quick report of the OTIC last week

Plugfest results were presented during webex session –

European webex sessions:

• The presentations have been uploaded to https://oranalliance.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/TTIFG/pages/503939280/PF2+Europe+Presentations
• The recordings have been uploaded to https://oranalliance.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/TTIFG/pages/504201383/PF2+Europe+Videos

The closing joint O-RAN plugfest session (all plugfest venues) – presentation and recording at https://oranalliance.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/TTIFG/pages/503971932/PF2+General

Postman scripts to interface with the SMO and in turn test O1 interface between the SMO and different parts of O-RAN instances of O-CU, O-DU, O-RU and RIC using these models. 

• yang modules
• framework for test and validate CM 

share content in in SMO gerrit and create wiki linking to the same source

• Working on a framework for vendors for OAM/YANG tests
• O-RAN-SC to host the framework
• Postman and vsCode as RestClients
• Alex about to setup a SIM in OSC lab - involve Rittwik in a O-RAN private lab
• OpenFronthaul
• 3GPP models are considered.

O-RAN Component deployment

The question is: How to deploy the red colored CNFs/VNFs of the O-RAN-Architecture?

• CNF for O-RAN-components 
  • model of CNF - how to be configured, how many components, blueprints
  • CDS model needs to be created
  • Network-service based on several CNFs
    • CNF types
      • Near-RT-RIC
      • O-CU-UP
      • O-CU-CP
      • O-DU

For detailed discussion the following page was created:

• CNF deployment of O-RAN Components 

Package

• for Network Functions (priority)
• for Network Service (second step)

CNFs or VNFs

• both should be considered 
  • let's start with CNFs first
  • VNF is considered as additional option

• no CNFs and VNFs combined in a single package
  • maybe not for rApps → 
  • VNF should take care about internal CNFs

ONAP/CCSDK - INT - script based testing by copy from O-RAN-SC repos

• guidelines for such scripting - hints, guidelines, ... - @john - for Honolulu 

Questions and Answers