09-20-23 - 5G SBP Bi-weekly Status Meeting

Owned by LJ Illuzzi
Last updated: Oct 04, 2023
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Company

@LJ Illuzzi 

Linux Foundation

@lincoln 

University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute

@Yow-Jian Lin 

Peraton Labs

@Vijayakumar R Tawker 

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Agenda:

  • Antitrust

  • Start Recording- helps facilitate minutes and Action Items

  • Reminder to sign is on this page

  • Welcome 1st Time Attendees

  • New Project Proposal

  • 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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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



New project proposal:

5G SBP : A charging system for 5G SA use cases using Open Source Products for SBP - Prajith Paran

  • Who will use this system? In lieu of using existing systems?

  • This project may be best suited for an open source project and not a blueprint

  • People who are interested in contributing should reach out to Prajith



Project Updates:

SEDIMENT+KubeArmor

  •  

    • Initial PoC:

    • Kaloom lab- VMs built - Risk

      • Do we have a risk? What is the mitigation?

    • 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

      • Aarno Labs has implemented SEDIMENT. Raj to get details

        • Can they provide a demo or overview to the community?

      • Looking to create an easy to use guidebook (Raj)

        • Would have to go through DARPA Public Release process

        • Aarno Labs- an MIT spin-off. Provides security for (currently) Java script. Whereas KubeArmor protects at the container level, Aarno protects at the Java script program level. SEDIMENT offers them an alternative where they may not be deploying on SGX (Software Guard Extensions). Contact Eric and Jeff Perkins also on SEDIMENT project. Raj to make introduction. Presented on Sept PI meeting.

      • Identify and develop a security Use Case

        @Yogendra Pal @rajesh- discuss during a deep-dive meeting



SABRES: Slice Selection, Path Validation, Multiparty Management

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    • 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.

        • License - Apache 2

      • 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].

    • Lincoln tried setting up EMCO using documentation and it failed to come up.

    • SD-Core setup at ICI

    • Next Steps:

      • Open question on open sourcing SABREs (university policy) - still open

      • Replicate Simplified Slicing demo locally in ISI lab (Lincoln)

      • Debug the environment (Lincoln)

      • Setup SD-Core at ICI (demonstrate slicing using SD-Core)

      • Set up a drop-in replacement for the current slicing algorithm with CBS algorithm (Lincoln)

      • Leverage UNH and Kaloom. Ganesh and Lincoln?



ONAP SMO

  •  

    • Scope-

      • use ONAP SMO to exercise gNodeB. Showcase RAN connectivity (O1 interface)

      • Showcase orchestration

      • Connect gNodeB

        • Mitigation- UNH can host core but has no resources to implement; Yogen can implement

      • Potential reference point/tie-in with ORAN-SC

    • Requirements/Goals

      • Showcase RAN connectivity (O1 interface)

      • exercise gNodeB (UNH)

      • Demonstate core connectivity

      • Stretch goal- tie-in with ORAN-SC

    •  Resources-

      • Aarna Networks

      • UNH - gNodeB. Note; gNodeB is T&M gear and will need to be shared among projects.

      • Kaloom - Core- Risk

        • UNH has space for a core but no people resources. Potential for a 5G SBP  resource to help. 

          • Mitigation- Yogen can implement the core at UNH

    • Next Steps-

      • Edit two config files with ansible to orchestrate the on-boarding process for the Amarisoft gNodeB- Yogen

      • Create Ansible template / tasks that would deal with the gNodeB - Lincoln

      • Onboard core - Yogen

      • LaaS booking, extend the booking to last longer than 21 days



Simplified E2E Network Slicing (Aarna)



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 -

  • Ready to Go, to be introduced in the upcoming 5G SBP Whitepaper (final edits underway)

  • It is suggested to open the page up for more input prior to launch

  • 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



Upcoming Meetings

  • Sep 27, 2023 Off-week working group meeting

    • Topic: D&TF planning?

    • project deep dive

  • Oct 4, 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