Attendees:

Please add your name below: Name (Company) :

• Ahmed ElSawaf ( STC)

• @luci suci (Orange)

• @Walter.kozlowski (Telstra)

• @Rabi Abdel (Vodafone)

• @Tom Van Pelt (Deactivated) (GSMA)

• @karim Rabie (NEC)

• @Karine Sevilla (Orange)

• @Ildiko

• @Toshi Wakayama (KDDI)

Agenda and Minutes:

• Recording

• Anti-Trust Policies:

  • Linux Foundation Anti-Trust Policy Notice

  • GSMA Anti-Trust Policy Notice

• Agenda Bashing 

Minutes:

• Latency is the main issue, the why FPGA is mandated in Fronthaul ( 50-100 usec /tested) , in the mid-haul in msec

• List down all function that required for FPGA ( vRAN use case ) 

  • DU processes RLC, MAC and Hi-PHY layer. For Hi-PHY processing, FPGA accelerators are used for enhancing performance. If used, the FPGA is used for FEC offload at L1. For 5G NR, PHY is offloaded to the FPGA 

  • Real Time Signal Processing Task

  • Forward Error Correction (FEC) : Turbo/LDPC/Polar

  • Fronthaul Acceleration & Conversion

  • Telemetry ( latency ) 

• CNTT can have FPGA in the transition period without obligation toward the operator to use it

• AAL form O-RAN it will be a target to have a single abstraction layer for all acceleration tech.

•  for the new profile: the name "Edge profile" , covers many uses cases over the edge starting with vRAN

• For RA01 & RA02 , it will not new Arch, it will be tweaking of the normal arch to be fit at the edge and can be covered in subchapter/chapter in RA01&RA02

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