02-18-25 - 5G SBP Bi-Weekly Status Meeting

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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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Agenda:

• Antitrust

• Reminder to sign in on attendance table

• Welcome 1st Time Attendees

• Events - call for volunteers

• 2025 Networking & Open Source Survey

• New Projects

• 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

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

• LFN's KubeCon + CloudNative Con EU sponsorship enables us to host Cloud Native Telco Day. LFN will have a booth onsite at the main KC + CNC show floor,  April 2-4. 

  Call to Action- LFN is looking for community members to help staff the booth, as well as project or collaborative demos that we can showcase in the booth.

Take the 2025 Networking & Open Source Survey. Take the survey and get 30% off registration for Open Networking & Edge Summit LF Networking on LinkedIn: 📶 CALLING ALL NETWORKING PROFESSIONALS! We want to hear from YOU. 📍…

• Whats the survey about? LFN is partnering with Linux Foundation Research to explore trends and priorities in open source networking. We're looking for insights from industry professionals to get a better picture of open source use, opportunities, and challenges in the telecom industry.

New Projects:

Indian Open-Source Software Platform for end-to-end Mobile Communication Networks - Project Lead- Sridhar Rao

Project Updates:

5G Quality on Demand

• Presentation from 02/04:

Reference Open Source Testbed - 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 . Muddasar spoke with Rahul. Pending @Rahul assessment.

  • 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?

    • Keep on the Tuiesday bi-weekly status meeting.

  • Project overview:

Joint LFN/LF Edge Use Case- Application Centric Connectivity

• Look at next steps from 02/11

• Next meeting Feb 25, 2025 meeting logistics

  • 1700 UTC / 9am PT / 12noon ET

  • https://zoom-lfx.platform.linuxfoundation.org/meeting/95506273491?password=9c574290-7bf6-4c5b-80b1-8fca19701e5c

HEXAeBPF/QORE: Quantumized 5G Core

• Slides from 02/04:

  • Next Steps:

    1. @SHANKAR MALIK add Key Message slides to intro.

    2. @LJ Illuzzi @SHANKAR MALIK get on ONAP SECCOM calendar. Work through Byung?

    3. @LJ Illuzzi @SHANKAR MALIK @Rahul get on Nephio PTL calendar. Work through Byung?

Upstreaming to Nephio

• Security goals discussed with the LFN TAC (from SECOM)

  • TAC security hardening efforts

  • Bring in Amy for feedback

  • Nephio road show (what is the pitch?, What are the alignment points?). Can 5G SBP efforts be included in Nephio on a permanent basis? What permanent features can be included in Nephio?

    • Next Steps:

      • Action Items:

        • @LJ Illuzzi Create a 5G SBP Use Case Page

        • Develop a pitch/discussion points. Reference: Library and existing Use Cases in flight.

        • @LJ Illuzzi get on a Nephio TSC agenda

• Changes to Nephio API (Ganesh). potential merge into Nephio roadmap.

• 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)

• @Ganesh Narayan (Deactivated) reached out to Keguang on 01/07 for updates and requested a meeting.

• Next meeting is TBD

Aether Blueprints - Cross Promotion

• Next Steps:

  • Cross-promotion / cross-reference.

    • Proposal to link Aether Blueprints on Library page.

• Action Item: @LJ Illuzzi to contact Larry Peterson (Aether TST chair) to discuss cross promotion and HEXAeBPF inclusion. (LJ, Larry, Ranny, Jennifer, Shankar).

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

Upcoming Meetings

• Feb 25, 2025 Project update on Application Centric Connectivity, 1700 UTC

• Mar 3, 2025 TSC Meeting

• Mar 4, 2025 Bi-weekly Status Review meeting

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)

• Simplified Slicing repo; use Aarna repo for now

• Bring in OAI stack

• Next Steps:
  
  

  • 5G SBP: Orchestration of OAI Core and Amarisoft gNB with EMCO

  • Slice selection within Edge Site Selection and Placement use case

  • Any other roadmapped items?

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

    • https://github.com/openfheorg/openfhe-development
      https://github.com/orgs/sabres-lfproject/repositories

  • 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:

• Create a template for documentation collateral

• Playbook-like theme

• YouTube - independent of any D&TF YouTube postings, but cross-linked