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01-07-25 - 5G SBP Bi-Weekly Status Meeting

01-07-25 - 5G SBP Bi-Weekly Status Meeting

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Last updated: Jan 07, 2025 by eric aquaronne
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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

Name

Company

@LJ Illuzzi 

Linux Foundation

@Muddasar Ahmed

MITRE

@SHANKAR MALIK

CORAN LABS

@Denise Barton

Aether Project

@Ganesh Narayan

Infosys

@eric aquaronne

Anylog (EdgeLake)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Agenda:

  • Antitrust

  • Reminder to sign in on attendance table

  • Welcome 1st Time Attendees

  • TSC Updates

  • Events

  • Project Updates

  • Upcoming Meetings

  • Any Other Business

 

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LF Anti-trust

Antitrust Policy

 

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

 

TSC Updates

Next TSC Meeting Jan 20, 2025 , 7am PT/11am ET, https://zoom-lfx.platform.linuxfoundation.org/meeting/96312795073?password=f9f7ab55-a030-49ce-9b95-5b12fc4ef1cb

Meeting is open to all.

TSC self-nomination/nominations are open in perpetuity. Contributors of current integration projects are encouraged to join the TSC, at least for the time while there project is in development, to help guide the program. Potential to combine TSC and bi-weekly status call.

 

Upcoming Events

Open Networking & Edge Summit, hosted at EXCEL London on Monday, March 31. This is the same venue where KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU will take place, beginning April 1. 

  • This is a business/strategy focused event with a 100% curated agenda

  • 8am - 5 pm

  • Separate registration from KubeCon

Cloud Native Telco Day, officially a KubeCon + CloudNativeCon co-located event on Tuesday, April 1,  at EXCEL London

  • Half-day 

  • Developer / tech focused

  • Add-on to KubeCon registration

 

Project Updates:

https://lf-networking.atlassian.net/wiki/x/MACJDQ - Led by UNH-IOL

  • Next Steps:

    • Opportunity for Accuknox to contribute security attributes (@Raj to bring internal).@Muddasar Ahmed to reach out to Rajul

      • What is required from Accuknox? What are the benefits? @Muddasar Ahmed

    • Look at HEXAeBPF. What is the fit? eUPF? @SHANKAR MALIK to review test bed proposal

    • Add Backlog (Nephio) to Use Case for tracking purposes @Lincoln Lavoie

    • Add Roadmap section @Lincoln Lavoie

    • Setup a recurring separate project meeting or use this meeting?

  • Project overview:

 

Joint LFN/LF Edge Use Case- Application Centric Connectivity

 

Nephio + 5GSBP

  • Nephio SIG looking at ambient MESH, and and also to see if they can incorpate spiffe workload identity.

  • Next Steps for the SIG-

    • Define what architecture they will follow

    • Determine if it can provide security use case using Nephio to orchestrate security controls, meaning they can deploy the proxy. And can deploy the ambient mesh, or it can deploy on spire server and agent.

  • Action Item: @Muddasar Ahmed to reach out to the security group for update and applicability to 5G SBP.

    • Look at Nephio Backlog/roadmap for capability deliveries

    • Nephio is a potential phase 2 in the CI/CD/CT testbed (UNH)

 

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

  • Presentation to ONAP TSC from 09/26: Large Model Capability Exposure and Application Development Based on MaaS (Model as a Service).pdf

  • An update meeting on 09/12 was held. Highlights:

    • ONAP REQ-1588 Introducing Generative AI Solution Based on Large Models was discussed.

    • Work being done with CAMARA around MaaS (Model as a Service) was discussed.

    • Working is being done on enhancing ONAPs UUI Module to support construction, usage, and management of Large Model applications

    • A request is made to verify the advantages a Telco provider (China Mobile/China Telcom/AT&T/Verizon) has over a cloud provider (Google/Microsoft/Tencent) using these (ONAP-based) approaches.

    • A meeting and demonstration with the ONAP community to discuss how the same API for MaaS can be used by different operators is planned for the last week in September (Sept 26). We are working to get an invite to that meeting.

  • Next meeting is TBD

 

Aether Blueprints

  • HEXAeBPF to be introduced to the Aether Blueprints community for possible inclusion within that project. HEXAeBPF has 5G SBP ties; L3AF integration, as well as Nephio intergrarion are being descussed within that group.

  • Reference Aether Blueprints presentation from 09/03- Aether-Blueprints.pdf

  • Next Steps:

    • Cross-promotion / cross-reference.

      • Proposal to link Aether Blueprints on Library page.

 

HEXAeBPF/QORE: Quantumized 5G Core

  • Muddasar- HEXAeBPF have post quantum crypto safe implementation where they use the new standards to update the cryptographic implementation for ran and code. Are these or will these be open source, and would they be interested in bringing this to the 5G SBP.

    • @SHANKAR MALIK → Yes, we have migrated 5G Core to Post Quantum Core and it is a separate project that we have, i.e. called QORE: Quantumized 5G Core. This can be an interesting project to migrate it into HEXAeBPF. We can plan this in our roadmap in the future releases.

    • Proposal to presentation on QORE: Quantumized 5G Core to the LFN TAC, ONAP, Nephio?

      • Lessons Learned

      • @SHANKAR MALIK to talk to team and update.

 

Upcoming Meetings

 

Any Other Business

 

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

Outreach

  • Sylvia/5G SBP alignment (Aug LFN Board meeting)

  • How do we reach out to other communities?

    • Add table of projects and capabilities. Find intersects with community project capabilies and 5G SBP project capabilities. Add community TSC chairs/contacts, architecture leads.

    • Get TAC input

  • What capabilities exist?

  • What avenues are available for outreach?

    • Reach out to Use Case/architect/TSCs teams. Present 5G SBP overview and benefits

    • messaging- hackathon-like

  • Leverage events more- develop a promo package

 

Lab in a box - parked this until CI/CD/CT Open Source O-RAN Testbed takes form

  • UNH is targeting integration testing

  • Tie into Aether Blueprints

  • Potential for a "Core in a Box" -can benefit 5G/6G research

    • Next Steps:

      • User Story- 5G Researcher can deploy 5G Core and 5G RAN in one day. The more scripting that can be included the less setup time needed by research team.

      • Licensing- as components are identified consult with LF Legal for "In a box" usage.

      • Marketing opportunity (Aarna and UNH)

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

Next Steps:

  • Evolve to Nephio

  • (Yogen) New project requirements/gaps- Configure controller with default radio values such that radios have default parameters settings such that they can start radiating immediately.

  • Nephio using Free5GC core and working on OAI. ONE Summit demo shows Open5GS (Lincoln)

  • Is there collaboration opportunity with new UNH project?

 

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