O-RAN Alignment

Owned by LJ Illuzzi
Last updated: Mar 11, 2022 by Tracy Van Brakle
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The purpose of this page is to track use cases and alignment among ORAN Alliance, ORAN-SC, ONAP and how they relate to 5G Super Blueprint.



Use Cases Reference:

  • O-RAN Use Cases

    • Please see  O-RAN Use Cases Detailed Specification 6.0 - July 2021 O-RAN.WG1.Use-Cases-Detailed-Specification-v06.00

    • Use case (pending CR): Energy Saving / Energy Efficiency

    • Use case 1: Context-Based Dynamic HO Management for V2X

    • Use case 2: Flight Path Based Dynamic UAV Radio Resource Allocation

    • Use case 3: Radio Resource Allocation for UAV Application Scenario

    • Use case 4: QoE Optimization

    • Use case 5: Traffic Steering

    • Use case 6: Massive MIMO Beamforming Optimization

    • Use case 7: RAN Sharing

    • Use case 8: QoS Based Resource Optimization

    • Use case 9: RAN Slice SLA Assurance

    • Use case 10: Multi-vendor Slices

    • Use case 11: Dynamic Spectrum Sharing

    • Use case 12: NSSI Resource Allocation Optimization

    • Use case 13: Local Indoor Positioning in RAN

    • Use case 14: Massive SU/MU-MIMO Grouping Optimization

    • Use case 15: O-RAN Signalling Storm Protection

    • Use case 16: Congestion Prediction and Management

    • Use case 17: Industrial IoT Optimization

    • Use case 18: BBU Pooling to achieve RAN Elasticity

  • ONAP Major Use Cases

    • 5G NRM Network Resource Model

    • 5G SERVICE MODELING

    • BROADBAND SERVICE USE CASE

    • BULK PM: PM CONTROL

    • CCVPN

    • CCVPN for Intent Based Networking

    • CHANGE MANAGEMENT

    • CONFIG & PERSIST SERVICE

    • CMP v2

    • ETSI ALIGNMENT

    • INTENT BASED NETWORKING

    • LICENSING MANAGEMENT

    • MDONS

    • NETWORK SLICING

    • ONAP/ORAN 3GPP STNDDEF VES

    • ONAP/ORAN 3GPP A1 POLICY

    • OPS-5G PROJECT

    • PNF PLUG AND PLAY

    • PRE-ONBOARDING & ONBOARDING USE CASE

    • REAL TIME PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS

    • SELF OPTIMIZING NETWORKS

    • SCALING USE CASE

    • SECURITY & LOGGING FRAMEWORK

    • VERTICAL INDUSTRY MANAGEMENT

    • xNF (PNF/VNF/CNF) SOFTWARE UPGRADE


  • ONAP SDN-R basic building blocks use cases for Operation and Maintenance (O1 interface)

    • SDN-R: PNF registration

    • SDN-R: Fault management

    • SDN-R: Configuration management

    • ONAP/O-RAN-SC: Performance monitoring management

    • Legacy UDP based in-band management


  • O-RAN-SC Use Cases

    • Health-Check Use Case

    • Traffic Steering Use Case

    • Application LCM Use Case

    • Application Deployment Use Case

    • Closed Loop Use Case

    • Network-Slicing (O-DU focused to SMO and back)


  • Akraino- Public Cloud Edge Interface (PCEI) Blueprint Family

  • EMCO

    • Dynamic Network Slicing

    • Enablement of connectivity to Edge applications from/to Internet

    • ISTIO CA Automation across clusters for tenants

    • Selection of Edge locations based on latency

    • Subscriber traffic Steering



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