2024 Roadmap
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 (SD-RAN 1.5 release)
- 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
- 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 (SD-RAN 1.6 release)
- 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