Goals

• Follow-up current RIC/O-RAN!
  • We are a little behind since SD-RAN was paused for an year or so
  • We much catch up with other O-RAN projects
    • Engineering
    • Researches
• Enlarging SD-RAN community
  • Engineering team - currently Woojoong only
  • Get more use-cases/research topics with community members
    • Corps: Intel Labs, RIMEDO Labs, etc.
    • Universities
• Stabilizing/Refactoring SD-RAN components
  • E2-SM
  • A1-DM
  • Bumping up latest onos-config/onos-topo
  • K/V DB - Keep using Atomix? or other well-known K/V DB such as Redis
  • Integrate with other O-RAN stack
    • O-RAN SC
    • OAI
    • etc.

Engineering Goals/Tasks

• Scalable RAN Simulator
• RC service model integration
• 4G/5G OAI RAN integration
  • KPM
  • RAN Slicing
• Refactoring SD-RAN components
  • E2 interface
  • Deprecating Python-based SDK (or recover it if there is any engineer/team to maintain)
  • K/V database
  • Bump up onos-config/onos-topo in SD-RAN chart
• SMART-5G support
• O1 interface integration
• A1 interface enhancement
• SD-RAN observability stack (fix SD-RAN exporter)
• SMO integration
• AI/LLM use-case - following O-RAN use-case
• 1-2 new use-cases/research topics
• Missing pieces that O-RAN RIC architecture has

Q1

• Complete O-RAN RC service model integration with xApps
• Complete Aether On-Ramp integration
• Complete scalable RAN Simulator design

Q2

• Throughly check SD-RAN CI/CD pipeline and image/chart publication process
• Complete initial version of scalable RAN Simulator
• Fix SD-RAN observability stack
• Release SD-RAN 1.4
• Documentation
  • RIC
  • RAN Simulator
  • OAI with NUC/USRP
• Complete designing a new AI/LLM related use-case/research topic related
• Brainstorming how SD-RAN can work with SMART-5G
• Start brainstorming new SD-RAN research topic with community members

Q3

• Fix E2 SM to work with other O-RAN stack
• Integrate O1/NetConf
• Complete A1 integration
• 1st phase done for SMO integration

Q4

• Complete new AI/LLM related use-case
• Complete OAI 5G RAN Slicing
• Complete SMO integration
• Release SD-RAN 1.5
• 1-2 publications/deliverables for new research topics