09-06-23 - 5G SBP Bi-weekly Status Meeting

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Name	Company
LJ Illuzzi	Linux Foundation
Rajesh Krishnan	Peraton Labs
lincoln	University of Southern California/ Information Sciences Institute
Prajith Paran	Du Telecom

Agenda:

Antitrust
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Welcome 1st Time Attendees
Project Updates
Events
5G Super Blueprint Library Update
Upcoming Meetings
Documentation (reference)
Any Other Business
- Look for a new Zoom bridge on the LFX Meeting platform

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- Antitrust Policy

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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

Project Updates

SEDIMENT+KubeArmor
- Initial PoC:
  - https://github.com/5G-Super-Blue-Print/KubeArmor-SEDIMENT-Demo
- Kaloom lab- VMs built - Risk
  - Need VPN to Kaloom. LJ to Contact Ganesh (gave@kaloom.com)
- Potential Hex Five sub project - Cesare/Rajesh
  - Investigative meeting took place between Peraton and Hex Five (Cesare).
  - Next Step- Hex Five to come back with a proposal
- Next Steps:
  - Rajesh- Set back. Need to revaluate camera wrt memory
    - Options
      - Potential to use a low end sensor (ex: temperature sensor)
      - Find camera that requires less memory
  - Kaloom/UNH implementation
  - Aarno labs has implemented SEDIMENT. Raj to get details
    - Can they provide a demo or overview to the community?
  - Identify and develop a security Use Case
    - Yogendra Pal - setup meeting with Accuknox to discuss security use case. Report back on an upcoming meeting

SABRES: Slice Selection, Path Validation, Multiparty Management
- Three use cases will have separate services associated
- What orchestrator will/can be used?
  - potential to duplicate Simplified E2E Network Slicing (Aarna) using EMCO
    - Aarna confirms all Simplified network slicing solution will be open source and NDA will not be required.
    - Check on licensing
  - potential to leverage Wavelabs slicing using EMCO
- ICCCN paper: ICCCN_2023_paper_187.pdf
- Code repository (https://pulwar.isi.edu/sabres/cbs/cbs) that was used during the last government demonstration. This is the initial code base (src directory), which will not be the final product (as this version only works on 2-3 variables, rather than arbitrary). This code was used to replace ETSI's OSM's PLA module (using minizinc constraint solver) with CBS [https://osm.etsi.org/gitlab/osm/pla].
- EMCO failed to come up - waiting on Simplified Slicing repo
- SD-Core setup at ICI
- Next Steps:
  - Open question on open sourcing SABREs (university policy)
  - Replicate Simplified Slicing demo locally in ISI lab (Lincoln)
  - Debug the environment (Lincoln)
  - Set up a drop-in replacement for the current slicing algorithm with CBS algorithm (Lincoln)
  - Leverage UNH and Kaloom. Ganesh and Lincoln

Simplified E2E Network Slicing (Aarna)
- Question to community to bring in OAI stack
- Next Steps:
  - Slice selection within Edge Site Selection and Placement use case
  - Potential to demo OAI stack to the community - Yogen
  - Yogen had asked about gNodeB at UNH. Lincoln advises it is available 2nd half June
    - Yogendra Pal to follow up with Lincoln Lavoie on this point
  - Yogen - need to open source simplified slicing solution to EMCO project (08/09)

ONAP SMO
- Scope-
  - use ONAP SMO to exercise gNodeB. Showcase RAN connectivity (O1 interface)
  - Showcase orchestration
  - Connect gNodeB to Kaloom core - Risk
  - Potential reference point/tie-in with ORAN-SC
- Requirements/Goals
  - Showcase RAN connectivity (O1 interface)
  - exercise gNodeB (UNH)
  - Demonstate core connectivity
  - Demonstate core connectivity
  - Stretch goal- tie-in with ORAN-SC
- Resources-
  - Aarna Networks
  - UNH - gNodeB
    - UNH has space for a core but no people resources. Potential for a 5G SBP resource to help
  - Kaloom - Core- Risk
    - UNH has space for a core but no people resources. Potential for a 5G SBP resource to help
- Next Steps-
  - Readout from 09/01 meeting on Next Steps
    - gNodeB config
  - confirm availability of gNodeB (Lincoln)
  - confirm availability of core at Kaloom (Ganesh) - Risk

Edge Site Selection and Placement (Equinix) - On Hold

- From June D&TF - Call to action: What is current state of edge site selection and where does it need to evolve (future state)?
- Tie-in with simplified slicing (Aarna)
- Edge definition talk from the LF? Twitter? LF Edge Taxonomy. https://hubs.la/Q01RnPZh0
- Next Steps
  - Proposal to pause, and focus on E2E slicing
  - Slice selection within edge placement - Yogen

5G Super Blueprint Library -

No new updates
The 5G Super Blueprint Library is the central reference point for completed 5G Super Blueprint projects.
The 5G Super Blueprint Library will be announced in an upcoming 5G SBP Whitepaper that will include all the projects completed to date as well as all the projects
Next Steps:
- Add project Lead(s) contact info into the Library Index:
  - SEDIMENT + KubeArmor
    - Peraton Lead: Yow-Jian Lin
    - Accuknox Lead: Ankur Kothiwal (ankur dot kothiwal at accuknox dot com)
  - Simplified End-to-End Network Slicing: Yogen
  - L3AF Integration with 5G-UPF (User Plane Function): Shankar
  - Factory Floor Safety: ??
  - 5G Public Cloud Edge Interface
    - Intel:
    - Aarna: Amar
    - Equinix: Oleg
  - 5G Cloud Native Network: ??
- Marketing Plan
  - The goal is that each completed project get the same marketing treatment (i.e. Marketing Plan execution) where the technology is highligthed and the participants and contributing companies are recognized.

Events

MWC Devcon- Las Vegas -
- https://www.gsma.com/futurenetworks/gsma_events/gsma-open-gateway-devcon/
- Dates: Sept 26 to 28
- Agenda appears to be set
- In-person event
- Free for developers and engineers
- CFP deadline - Pano
- Accuknox/KubeArmor interested - Ron to connect with Pano
LFN Developer & Testing Forum (Budapest, Hungary) this is an on-site event.
- November 13-16, 2023
- Registration is open and free
  - Submit Visa letter requests (if needed) ASAP
- Topic Submissions
- Topic Opportunities:
  - RA with Accuknox and KubeArmor - show existing demo to larger audience. Add RA Use Case. Foreign travel may be difficult due to government contracts
  - SABREs
  - ORAN SMO (Aarna)
  - Nephio- deploying RAN work loads, etc.
  - 5G SBP Library

Upcoming Meetings

13 Sep 2023 Off-week working group meeting
- Topic: D&TF planning?
- ORAN SMO?
20 Sep 2023 Bi-weekly Status Meeting

Any Other Business

New Zoom bridge on the LFX Meeting platform

Documentation - Deliverables to the 5G SBP

From Use Case Template:

Blueprint Outputs

(Mandatory)

check all that apply:

Code repository
Configuration files (e.g. Helm charts, etc.)
Upstreaming to relevant projects
Continuous Integration
Test requirements and test results (if applicable)
Documentation:
- Overview and Theory of Operation (i.e., what does it do?)
- Deployment and setup
Videos
- demo
- lab setup/behind the scenes
- other
- YouTube

Create a template for documentation collateral
Playbook-like theme
YouTube - independent of any D&TF YouTube postings, but cross-linked

Any Other Business