Meeting 032321

Attendance

Agenda:

• LF Anti-trust Compliance Notice
• 5G Super Blueprint Overview
• 5G Cloud Native Network Status
• Demo Playbooks
• Demo Marketing

LF Anti-trust

• We will start by mentioning the project's Antitrust Policy, which you can find linked from the LF and project websites. The policy is important where multiple companies, including potential industry competitors, are participating in meetings. Please review and if you have any questions, please contact your company legal counsel. Members of the LF may contact Andrew Updegrove at the firm Gesmer Updegrove LLP, which provides legal counsel to the LF.
  • Antitrust Policy

5G Super Blueprint Overview

New Article on Linux Foundation website: https://linuxfoundation.org/en/blog/how-open-source-communities-are-driving-5gs-future-even-within-a-large-government-like-the-us/

New Landing Page on LFN website: https://www.lfnetworking.org/5g-super-blueprint/

Amar Kapadia made presentation at ONEEF. See Slides here.

• any proprietary elements used in the demo will be purely 3GPP based and therefore interchangeable 
• Lincoln Lavoie  can look into linking labs together if needed

Industry Drivers: OPS 5G involvement. Recognition that many of these components to build exist in open source.

Starting with open core and open RAN as a default. Initial slides are a suggestion, inspired by OPS 5G.

Ranny Haiby Leading effort at 5G Super Blueprint Whitepaper. Learn more and sign up here: https://wiki.lfnetworking.org/x/e4AZAw.

Working Group Logistics

Proposal: Use the foundation built by the LFN Demo: 5G Cloud Native Network working group as the "home" of the 5G Super Blueprint.

Track 1: Current Demo: 5G Cloud Native Network + RAN Integration + Network Slicing. Goal: Publish and promote working demo in Summer/Fall

Track 2: 5G Super Blueprint: In parallel, built a 5G Super Blueprint (specs, scripts, instructions, etc) covering the phases presented earlier. 

Between tracks: Same: Wiki, Mailing List, Slack Channel, Meeting Schedule (to start). Potentially split out a parallel meeting time.

Status Update

FlexRAN + Altran RAN + OpenShift Containers Update (Hanen/Rajat/Sam)

Faraday Cage built!

FlexRAN + Altran is currently running in lab. Have been tested in the UE, the team is now working to get Openshift set up in the lab. Hanen and Sam are working on this. There is a working radio in the Intel lab now, with Altran integrated. It shouldn't be a big lift to deploy to OpenShift. Target: completion before the next demo call in 2 weeks. Faraday Cage will depend on the radio type. Small Cell radio / Indoor Antenna is needed (Outdoor antenna won't work).

5G Radio Update (Sriram V)

From Sriram: Detected an amplifier overheating issue with our 5G Radio (these are still hand made), and has recalled it to fix it. Good news is that the problem is now resolved, and we will have the radio in hand in a few weeks. We have a backup radio as well in hand that is outdoor, just in case. We are awaiting your Faraday cage, at which point we can ship it to you.

E2E 5G Slicing Update (Sriram R)

Rajat primarily working on network slicing of 5G core and integration with ONAP (weekly meetings). Sriram, R and other members from Aarna are trying to bring up the 5G core. Sriram R: Good progress last week. Thread 1: ONAP in UNH Lab is Done. Some ONAP modules need to updated beyond Guilin to Honolulu (work continuing). Thread 2: How to integrate Altran 5G Core. Exploring a couple options for this. Core slicing very possible. RAN slicing will take longer. 

Conversation ongoing with with Kaloom (Ganesh/Sveto) about the UPF (a 5G core module) about configuration with ONAP. This will be the focus of work after the Altran integration. Will need to happen in the Montreal Lab. 

Demo Playbooks

We need to better define demo artifacts and components for reusability.

Demo Marketing

REMINDER

How To Page: How to replicate the demo page now moved over to LFN Wiki: https://wiki.lfnetworking.org/x/aYEZAw. Please review and add your demo contribution set up. 

Video Series: We'll be using this How to guide for short video interviews with demo participants that we'll also turn into blog and promote through LF/LFN channels. 

This will keep our marketing active and help us lead up to and promote the next demo version to be unveiled in the Summer/Fall.

Notes:

Concern raised about using commercial RAN in 5G Super Blueprint. The intent is to have a mix of open source + proprietary to start, then phase to all Open source.

• Observations on slide-1 - I am of the Opinion that 5G SUPER Blueprint has got to have Open Core and Open RAN architecture as the foundational basis since Day-1.... O-RAN and OPEN RAN goes beyond 3GPP specs to define new architecture, interfaces and deployments options. Although the demo can be a vendor who does not support Open RAN, the blueprint has got to start with O-RAN... This has to be debated a bit more by the community.