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

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