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06-10-25 - 5G SBP Bi-Weekly Status Meeting

06-10-25 - 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

  • TSC Updates

  • 5G SBPs Library Updates

  • Project Updates

  • Upcoming Events

  • Upcoming Meetings

  • Any Other Business

 

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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

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Next TSC Meeting Jun 23, 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.

 

5G SBPs Library Updates

 

Project Updates:

Joint LFN/LF Edge Use Case- Application Centric Connectivity (Edge Lake)- Led by AnyLog and Moshe

Webinar Recap-

Outreach & Follow-up

Next project meeting Jun 17, 2025.

 

Reference Open Source Testbed - Led by UNH InterOperability Laboratory and Lincoln

  • Spring Plugfest and subsequent release update

  • 5G SBPs Library entry completed

  • Press Release- 5G Super Blueprints Use Case Spotlight: Reference Open Source Testbed

  • Marketing around test bed, okudo, new release, and Plugfest?

    • @LJ Illuzzi provide blog template

  • Next Steps:

    • Release update- complete

    • Info on Spring Plugfest

    • Working with OAI [add detail from recording]

  • Next Steps (older)

    • 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. Still tracking, further out. @Lincoln Lavoie

 

5G Quality on Demand - Led by Infosys (Ganesh and Amit)

  • Amit update-

    • working with free5gc to implement QoS

    • Camara endpoint

    • Working on an E2E demo. Partial/intermitent demo in July timeframe

    • Nephio- will be used for deployment of free5GC. June/July timeframe

Backburner:

  • Look at SABREs, Dr Eric Klien- ressearch paper

 

HEXAeBPF - Led by CoranLabs and Shankar

Updates:

  • 5G SBP Library entry completed

  • Add more cores; Magma, Ella (new), QCRE? (new)

  • Collaborate with Essedum

Next Steps:

  • Spotlight Blog/Case Study- working with LF marketing

 

QORE: Quantumized 5G Core - Led by CoranLabs and Shankar

 

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

Overview- The Indian Open-Source Software Platform for end-to-end Mobile Communication Networks (IOS-MCN) will accelerate the development and deployment of Mobile Communication (5G/6G) products and services by the vendors. AI model. Building RAN-SMO/OAM capability for 5G/Next G

  • Next Steps

    • Readout from Sridhar and team

 

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:

          • 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-

    • Rahul looking into opportunity.

    • 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 - Led by China Mobile and Keguang He, Infosys and Praveen Kumar Kalapatapu

  • @Ganesh Narayan (Deactivated) reached out to Keguang on 01/07 for updates and requested a meeting. No responce.

  • 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 Events

 

Upcoming Meetings

 

Any Other Business

  • @Shankar Malik - Potential generic 5G SBP use case around Essedum

  • Eric asking about contacts at Orange. @Muddasar Ahmed has a contact via GSMA - Complete/Remove

 

----- 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