04-18-23 - 5G SBP Bi Weekly Status Meeting

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Last updated: Apr 25, 2023
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Company

@LJ Illuzzi

Linux Foundation

@Muddasar Ahmed 

MITRE

@Rodney Elder 

Equinix

@Sandeep Panesar 

LFN MAC CHAIR

@Parthiban Nalliamudali 

Wavelabs Technologies 

@Rahul 

AccuKnox

@Rajesh Krishnan 

Peraton Labs

@Yow-Jian Lin 

Peraton Labs

@Roopashree Nayak 

Infosys

@SATISH SADAGOPAN 

IBM

@Yogendra Pal 

Aarna Networks

@Bhagyalakshmi Ramachandran (Deactivated) 

Infosys

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                        

Agenda:

  • Antitrust

  • Start Recording- helps facilitate minutes and Action Items

  • Welcome 1st Time Attendees

  • 2023 LFN Events Plan - Heather

  • Projects Updates

  • Upcoming Meetings

  • Any Other Business

 

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LF Anti-trust

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Start Recording

 

Welcome 1st Time Attendees

Welcome all. new attendees. If you have any questions about participating in this community, please contact Louis Illuzzi (lilluzzi@linuxfoundation.org).

5G Super Blueprint Overview and Getting Started

 

2023 LFN Events Plan - Heather

 

Projects Updates

  • Edge Placement - link to Use Case

    • Rodney- problem statement- how do MNOs deploy 5G standalone both at the edge and the core (aside from greenfield deployments).

    • Rodney- MNOs and private entities are asking, where do they place edge elements? For what reasons? How do they get it deployed from a physical and logical perspective.

    • This Use Case builds on the PCEI Use Case (which describes public to private interconnect), and scales to mulitple edge sites.

    • How are sites selected? What tools are available for site selection. Muddasar asserts that site selection is mostly manual, but may be automated if using commercial cloud.

    • It was proposed to connect Equinix edge sites to 5G SBP labs to demonstrate multi-access edge compute interacting with 5G infrastructure. Yogen proposes 2 sites with 1 common core.

    • Capabilities (long list);

      • Muddasar proposes to demonstrate automated load deployment

      • Muddasar proposes having an orchestrator be aware of the Equinix edge capabilities via ORAN SMO

      • Automated deployment of CU/DU

      • Demonstrate both internal network orchestration for 5G workload as well as industry solution at the edge.

  • SEDIMENT packaging for Accuknox deployment for 5G SBP use case

 

Upcoming Meetings

  • Apr 25, 2023 Off Week Deep Dive Meeting

    • Proposal to use 04/25 as projects deep dive: Edge Placement

  • May 2, 2023 Bi-Weekly  Status Meeting

    • SEDIMENT - Brief the team on RA Use Case

 

 

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SEDIMENT Project Overview

  • Can we get a PDF version of presentation and attach to wiki?

    • Add links to Use Case wiki pages

  • Potential Next Steps:

    • Introduce Peraton, Kaloom, IBM. LJ to sent an introduction email

    • Determine if existing IBM cameras can support RA (create Evidence)

      • Camera spec sheet

    • What other IoT devices can be introduced? Does Perton have IoT devices(s) that can be introduced? Peraton using development boards as IoT emulaters.

      • Temperature sensor

    • RAP server- remote access to Peraton?

 

Sprint 1 Planning 3 months

Umbrella goal- NaaS - evaluate above as they applies to NaaS, example RAN, Network. NaaS can become a tenant of these services. (not a separate Use Case).

  • High Level problem statement:

    • Hign level User Stories:

  • Epic/Use Case- Edge placement of network functions (RAN) deployment at the edge. Create a cell site (leveraging Equinix metro site availability) and place CU/DU workloads at the cell site. for slicing Use Case and cell site deployment (edge placement) Use Case. Also include slicing latency at the network edge. Find the characteristcs of the slice, example; maximum number of UEs, maximum number of videos sessions that can be supported; latency at the core and RAN

    • create Epic and User Stories for each; consult with Equinix @Yogendra Pal @Muddasar Ahmed @Rodney Elder @ron victor @phil . Schedule followup call

    • Sketch of an Epic for Edge Placement:

      • Operators are looking for methods to place Edge Infrastructure in enough proper places to enable scaling of Edge operations from day 0 to day 3 (full production).  This becomes technically challenging, to support day 0 edge infrastructure for a targeted number of UE subscribers with just enough infrastructure to commercially support initial subscribers, but also enough capabilities to scale as subscribers are added.  This leads to challenges of physical and logical placement of compute and interconnection.  In this Epic, it can explore the current standards state and identify gaps of real world implementations, redundancy and resiliency.

      • Use Case - Incremental Edge Placement 

        • Scenario - an operator has an existing 5G NSA core for typical retail operations and seeks to support deployment of a 5G SA infrastructure to support a Day 1 customer with some defined number of scheduled subscribers over a defined geography.  In this use case it could be demonstrated for a scaled deployment of 100K subscribers incrementally added at 25K per quarter with geographic coverage for North America. 

  • Use Case- Automation. Equinix has a script to deploy Free5GC and gNodeB. We can look into how that fits into automation and auto deployment for an automation Use Case.

    • Equinix is using gNodeB built into Free5GC

    • How can KubeArmor be integrated into the automated deployment (Muddasar).

  • Remote Atestation of IoT devices - SEDIMENT project. Placeholder

  • Any others?

 

6/9 Month Sprint Backlog

  • Use Case- Secure Orchestration- using Enterprise and corporate policies, and well as standards requirements, demostrate the capability to deploy workloads securely, and then create network slices based on an SLA. Define behaviors at Day 0 and Day 1. How does KubeArmor fill the security gaps? Create Epic for secure orchestration, then add Use Stories

  • Use Case- Overlay networks (Equinix). Demonstrate the mapping of a 5G network slice to where the overlay gateway and controllers are located, and demonstrate how the placement of the UPF or RIC, where the traffic can be broken out to, support the overlay networks. Potential as a User Story in secure orchestration Epic

 

Lab Updates

  • UNH-IOL 

    • Will have a gNodeB (Amarisoft) available in March time-frame, that can be shared to the 5GSB.  System is already setup in RF isolation chamber.  Limited 5G eMBB UE are available as well.

    • LaaS is online / can be booked / connected to the gNodeB.

  • Kaloom (Montreal)

    • RU brought into the lab

    • SD-Core installed- Next- connect Kaloom UPF to SD-Core

    • Adding Use Cases with IBM- retail and IoT

    • Open5GS install is pending

  • Wavelabs (Hyderabad)

    • EMCO is working with Free5GC

 

Accuknox Introduction

 

Equinix - Free5GC deployment on Network Edge

 

  • Infrastructure as a Service, network placement and orchrestration as a Service

  • Contribution opportunity around observability; Equinix would be interested conversations in insert observability features into the framework

  • Equinix is using gnodeb built into Free5GC

  • Potential 5G SBP Use Cases

    • Slicing latency at the network edge. Find the characteristcs of the slice, example; maximum number of UEs, maximum number of videos sessions that can be supported; latency at the core and RAN

    • Use Case- RAN deployment at the edge. Create a cell site (leveraging Equinix metro site availability) and place CU/DU workloads at the cell site. for slicing Use Case and cell site deployment (edge placement) Use Case.

    • Use Case- Automation. Equinix has a script to deploy Free5GC and gnodeb. We can look into how that fits into automation and auto deployment for an automation Use Case.

      • How are KubeArmor be integrated into the automated deployment (Muddasar).

    • Use Case- Secure Orchestration- using Enterprise and corporate policies, and well as standards requirements, demostrate the capability to deploy workloads securely, and then create network slices based on an SLA

    • Use Case- Overlay networks. Demonstarte the mapping of a 5G network slice to where the overlay gateway and controllers are located, and demonstrate how the placement of the UPF or RIC, where the traffic can be broken out to, support the overlay networks.

    • Remote Atestation of IoT devices

    • Muddasar summarized the Use Cases at a high level-

      • RAN deployment at the edge

      • Segregated core deployment- core cloud and edge cloud

      • Secure orchestration

 

Work Activities Overview

  1. Establish/Re-establish permanet 5G Network capability in the labs

    • Must have requirments:

      1. Core

      2. RAN

      3. Automation

      4. Security orchestration

    • Workplan:

      1. Define a central Use Case(s)

  2. NaaS

    • Must have requirments:

      • LFN and LF Edge projects at the core, cloud, & edge

      • Enterprise Use Case(s)

      • ..

  3. Enterprise Use Case

 

5G Network-as-a-Service (NaaS)

 

Nephio

  • NaaS tie-in

    • IP Transport as a Service. Front haul/backhaul

    • RAN as a service

    • Core as a Service

    • MEC as a Service

  • Skills needed:

    • SD-Core

    • RAN

    • Anuket

    • Kubernetes

    • Nephio/EMCO

 

IBM Use Cases (in the hopper)

  • Potential retail Use Case - MWC has priority

  • Weather & Agriculture Use Case with GXC

 

5G Super Blueprint Workgroups & How to Submit a Blueprint Proposal