06-12-24 - 5G SBP Bi-Weekly Status Meeting

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Last updated: Jun 12, 2024 by Ranny Haiby
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Meeting Zoom Link: 

https://zoom-lfx.platform.linuxfoundation.org/meeting/95015184719?password=d1ed6d85-060e-4349-a4f4-0bcbafebdcf0

Meeting start time: 1600 UTC



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Company

@LJ Illuzzi 

Linux Foundation

@Muddasar Ahmed 

MITRE

@Ranny Haiby 

Linux Foundation

@Lincoln Lavoie 

UNH-IOL

@John Keeney (Ericsson EST) 

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Agenda:

  • Antitrust

  • Reminder to sign in on attendance table

  • Welcome 1st Time Attendees

  • Project Governance

  • Off-Week Working Group and Deep Dive Meeting

  • Proposal for new meeting day and time

  • Project Updates

  • Upcoming Meetings

  • Any Other Business



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LF Anti-trust

  • We will start by mentioning the project's Antitrust Policy, which you can find linked from the LF and project websites. The policy is important where multiple companies, including potential industry competitors, are participating in meetings. Please review and if you have any questions, please contact your company legal counsel. Members of the LF may contact Andrew Updegrove at the firm Gesmer Updegrove LLP, which provides legal counsel to the LF.



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 Governance

The current TSC:

@Lincoln Lavoie - UNH

@Muddasar Ahmed - MITRE

@Rahul  -Accuknox/Raj as alternate

@Zahir Patni -Peraton Labs

@Ali Hussain - Iowa State University



Do we keep TSC self-nomination open in perpetuity? — Yes

Next Steps:

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    • Convert Bi-weekly Advisory and Use Case meeting into bi-weekly TSC meeting. Change the alternating week to avoid conflict with LFN SPC meeting

    • Final the Technical Charter

    • Prepare LFN induction material. What level? Sandbox, Incubation, Graduated? Add detail on different project stages.



Off-Week Working Group and Deep Dive Meeting

  • This meeting recurrance is canceled. We will schedule as needed.



Proposal for new meeting day and time for Bi-Weekly Status Meeting

This Wedneday timeslot has become crowded for many community members and LFN staff. Proposal to change this bi-weekly meeting to Tuesdays at 9am PT/ 12noon ET/ 1600 UTC. Look for a vote.



Outreach

Muddasar suggestion... 



Project Updates:

Joint LFN/LF Edge Use Case- Application Centric Connectivity

  • Next meeting June 11

  • Is previous Whitepaper available?

  • Ask Frank Brockner (Cisco) to particiapte @Muddasar Ahmed to reach out. Forward the June 4 meeting

  • Next Steps (use Use Case Page):

    • Build the business justification

    • Define requirements

    • Validate among the group

    • Reference Open Horizon project

    • Identify other open source components that can be used to glue the pieces together.

      • Relevant to Edgelake Project (Moshe Shadmon (AnyLog))

      • Where can LFN projects play a role and enrich this Use Case?

    • What are the standards that we would use for the data models for the interfaces, and so on.

      • Insights into applicable existing standards that should be followed



Intent Driven Orchestration for an Autonomous 5G Network - Leads- Keguang He (China Mobile)/Praveen Kumar Kalapatapu (Infosys)

  • Update and demo provided on June 6

  • Next Steps/Goals (see Use Case wiki):

    • Achieve cross-domain intent processing, including business, service, and resources (RAN,  Transport, Core, Edge, and Cloud)

    • Continuously enhance the ONAP large model convergence platform to support the integration of more large models

    • Continuously develop intelligent agents based on large models  to promote the evolution of autonomous networks to a higher level of automation and intelligence, achieving optimized allocation and dynamic management of network resource



SEDIMENT- Environmental Sensor Use Case

  • GSMA device security group. Suggestion to introduce this use case to that group. @Muddasar Ahmedto send an email to David Maxwell - fraud and security group lead.

    • Next Step- GSMA device security group will schedule Zahir presentation to the GSMA group.

      • Update SEDIMENT presentation to align with the GSMA device security group; develop Use Cases aligned with the GSMA device security group

  • This Use Case was presented at ONE Summit April2024: SEDIMENT for IoT Device Security and Authentication

  • Next Steps:

    • Entry into 5G SBP Library

Established Baselines:



SEDIMENT+KubeArmor

  • New Use Case/Collaboration Proposals:

    • Project L3AF uses eBPF for LSM (Linux Security Modules). There may be a potential for alignment around security; zero-trust capabilities

    • L3AF community member Santhosh meet briefly with Rahul Jadhav/Accuknox at eBPF Day India on 03/16. Santhosh interested in working with KuberArmor

    • Are there Industry vertical support templates for KubeArmor? @ron victor to followup 

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        • Next Steps:

          Ron to take it up with KubeArmor technical team.
          @LJ Illuzzi send L3AF info to Ron.
          Ron to follow up on Industry vertical support templates @ron victor

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    • Can SEDIMENT be ported to Linux to expand it capabilities to say, self-attestation.

      • Zahir shared that SEDIMENT can be used on Linux and uses the notion of user-defined functions so that for Linux devices, with much larger storage spaces then IoT devices, specific files can be specified to be attested to insure they have not been tampered with.

      • Drilling deeper it is proposed that SEDIMENT might be used to attest a Linux host before deployment. For example, when a CSP deploys Kubernetes infrastructure on Linux based platforms there is a capability where SEDIMENT can attest the host before deployment. A base-level Use Case can show the concept of using Linux to deploy different security-level SLAs

      • Expand to confidencial computing?

        • Next Steps:

          • Zahir flushing out the idea internally at Peraton Labs



Upcoming Meetings

  • Jun 26, 2024Bi-weekly Status Meeting

  • Jul 10, 2024 Bi-weekly Status Meeting

  • Jul 24, 2024 LJ on PTO. Need coverage or cancel



Any Other Business



----- Back Burner Projects ---------

Orchestration of OAI Core and Amarisoft gNB with EMCO - Yogen/Vikas (Aarna Networks)

Next Steps:

  • Add to the 5G SBP Library.

    • Whats needed:

      • code- Put it in an Aarna repo

      • Additional documentation pending

  • Marketing:

    • Need ETA from Yogen

    • Align with LFN marketing for blog (LJ)

  • ONAP SMO?

ONAP SMO

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        • 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

          • Demonstate connectivity and orchestration

          • exercise Amarisoft gNodeB (UNH)

          • Stretch goal- tie-in with ORAN-SC

          • Stretch goal - Showcase RAN connectivity (O1 interface). OAI not ready with O1 interface

        •  Resources-

          • Aarna Networks

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

        • Next Steps-

          • Bring up OAI core and orchestrator with Amarisoft gNodeB - UNH lab

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

            • Bring up OAI core at UNH using the orchestrator. No update, been using SD-Core in the meantime

          • LaaS booking, extend the booking to last longer than 21 days - ping Lincoln by email.



Simplified E2E Network Slicing -Yogen (Aarna)



SABRES: Slice Selection, Path Validation, Multiparty Management - Lincoln Thurlow. (USC/ICI)

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    • Agreement with the Linux Foundation has ended

    • All code commited to LF repos will remain intact and continue to be updated through at least Sept2024

    • Open source license is BSD3

    • A demo on Constraint-based search is created; needs legal approval to make available

    • Lumen technologies will act as distributor

    • What existing capabiliites can be included/added to the 5G Super Blueprint Library? Constraint-based search, demo

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    • Next Steps:

      • Improve algorithms for constraint based search

      • Path validation with a different proof algorithm to improve the performance

      • Inclusion into 5G SBP Library

        • Scope: Constraint-based search, Can be done where RAN and other resources are deployed on a 5G network. If there are any contraints, for example disk space or CPU latency, and have a placement problem, thats where SABREs shines. The demo shows constraint-based search

      • Legal approval is needed to release the demo



--------- Reference material below --------

5G Super Blueprint Library -

  • Page opened for viewing- send comments to lilluzzi@linuxfoundation.org

  • Proposal to add a column for higher level network function associated with each entry, example; slicing, security, UPF integration, IoT (visual inspection), etc.

  • Marketing Plan

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      • 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.



5G Super Blueprint Whitepaper



Documentation - Deliverables to the 5G SBP

From Use Case Template:

Blueprint Outputs 

(Suggested. Not all may apply)

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