Date


Attendees

Dave Milham Dong Sun Francisco Fontes Jean-Michel Cornily Tayeb Ben Meriem Behnam Shariati @caoguangjing Cristina Badulescu Diego Lopez George Glass @Henry Calvert GSMA Hui Li @Johannes Fischer Kevin McDonnell Klaus Martiny @ Klaus Moschner @Luca Pesando Luigi Licciardi Magnus Buhrgard @Marcus Brunner (Huawei) @Min He @Ray Forbes (ETSI ENI Chairman, Huawei) @SONG Xiaojia @Tom Van Pelt (GSMA) @Thomas Tovinger Unknown User (tonbrand@kpnmail.nl) Vance Shipley @Xi Cao (China Mobile) @XU Riuyue Zou Lan Alan Pope


Apologies


Input Material

Meeting Agenda

Monday, September 28, 2020 at 09:00-12:00 BST (10:00-13:00 CET)

TIME BST (GMT+1)

Topic

Lead

09:00

Introduction and welcome

TM Forum

09:05

Round table attendee introductions


09:15

Overview of workshop and objectives

TM Forum

09:30

Share information on current Autonomous Networks activities


10:30

Open discussion on areas of common interest


11:30

Discussion of next steps


11: 50

Summary


12:00

Close


Call for IPR Declaration – IPR Statements for Use in Meetings

Meeting Type

Informational Meeting

IPR Claims

N/A


Meeting notes


Summary:

The representatives of multiple SDOs shared ongoing activities and key points in AN related works, including:

  • TM Forum:

Autonomous Networks Project (ANP) was initiated since May 2019 and has published the Whitepaper, Vision & Roadmap, as well as Business Requirements & Architecture documents, which formulate the baseline of AN concept, framework, AN levels and key capabilities; in addition, multiple catalyst (PoC) projects have been established and marketing events are organized.

TMF believes both the challenges and opportunities of AN are significant, no single company and/or SDO is capable to cover E2E perspectives of AN. The Cross SDO industry level collaboration on the consensus of key concepts and terminologies (e.g. AN definition, framework, autonomous networks levels) and the development of key capabilities/mechanisms/interfaces (e.g. closed-loop, autonomous domain, intent) is essential to the success of AN.

  • ETSI:

Multiple groups are relevant to the AN, including ENI, F5G, MEC, NFV, OSM, TC INT AFI and ZSM. Those works are intended to address the different aspects of automation & intelligence of networks & operations domains. Many documents have been published in the context of architecture and key mechanisms, and some of them with use cases and PoCs.

ETSI recognises the need for further coordination and collaboration both internally and externally and has organized an internal coordination activity for Autonomous Networks. ETSI is developing an overall framework to leverage the complementarity of the different ETSI AN activities and is open to further discussion with relevant SDOs and Open source initiatives on the topic of AN.

  • 3GPP:

SA5 is responsible for management, orchestration and charging standards for 3GPP networks, which has been engaged in autonomous network relevant topics for LTE network, including Self-Organizing Network (SON) for E-UTRAN standardized since 3GPP Rel-8 (in 2008); in addition, For 5G, Autonomous Network Level

Closed loop communication service assurance, Intent driven management service for mobile networks, Management Data Analytics Service, Self-Organizing Networks (SON) for 5G networks, Network Slicing are being addressed.

3GPP SA5 has already made some progress on autonomous networks and continues to deliver more features to support autonomous networks. 3GPP SA5 is actively involved and developing specifications with full support of network automation and is happy to cooperate with other SDOs on autonomous networks.

Open discussion on collaboration:

The representatives from each SDO recognized the necessity of collaboration to fulfill the E2E perspectives of Autonomous Networks. It is proposed the following plan and next steps:

  • Overall plan:
  1.  Start from the consensus and alignment of basic concepts, terminologies, framework, and key perspectives including definition of Autonomous Networks, closed loop, Autonomous Networks Levels, Autonomous domains, Intent driven interaction and open discussions.
  2.  Further deep dive on the development of key technical mechanisms, framework and interfaces, as well as use cases/PoCs and testing and verification mechanisms to support autonomous networks.
  • Next steps:
  1. Set up a “Cross SDO Autonomous Networks Collaboration” email group with the representatives of participating SDOs to kick off the information sharing and open discussion, starting from Item 1 above.
  2. 2Set up a repository for information sharing and working documents.
  3. Schedule the discussion workshop on demand (e.g. monthly) to sync up and tackle the open issues.


Draft Participant list ( will be updated for the Email Distribution Group )

Organization

Group

Recipients

CC

ETSI

 

Secretariat

David Boswarthick, Director New Technologies

 David.Boswarthick@etsi.org

 

Anthony Brand, Director SDC and BOARD Secretary

Anthony.Brand@etsi.org

-Luis Romero, General of ETSI, luis.romero@etsi.org

-Adrian Scrase,CTO Adrian.Scrase@etsi.org

 

-ISGsupport@etsi.org

OCG

Nick Sampson, 

nick.sampson@orange.com

 

Autonomous Network Initiative (Whitepaper)

-Francisco Fontes 

Fontes@alticelabs.com

-Luigi Licciardi Luigi Licciardi luigi.licciardi@huawei.com

ENI

Ray Forbes, Chair
raymond.forbes@huawei.com

-Haining Wang (Vice Chair) haining.wang@intel.com

F5G

Luca Pesando, Chair
luca.pesando@telecomitalia.it

 

-Wei Lin, Liaison officer wei.linwei@huawei.com

-Hakim Mkinsi

Hakim.Mkinsi@etsi.org

-Christine Mera

christine.mera@etsi.org

MEC

Dario Sabella, Vice Chair

dario.sabella@intel.com

 

NFV

Diego Lopez

diego.r.lopez@telefonica.com

Cristina Badulescu

cristina.badulescu@ericsson.com

OSM

 

 

TC INT AFI

Tayeb BEN MERIEM tayeb.benmeriem@orange.com

 

ZSM

Klaus Martiny, Chair
klaus.martiny@telekom.de

-Christian Touch (Vice Chair) christian.toche@huawei.com

-Nurit Sprecher (Vice Chair) nurit.sprecher@nokia.com

GSMA

Telco Operating Platform

AI in network

Henry Calvert , Head of Network 2020.
HCalvert@gsma.com

 

Liuhong, Head of Technology, hliu@gsma.com

Tom Van Pelt

 

Carlos Gavilanes

CGavilanes@gsma.com

Michele Zarri, Technical Director at GSMA
MZarri@gsma.com

Elisa Balestra, Director of Strategy, AI Lead, ebalestra@gsma.com

NGMN

 

Klaus Moschner

klaus.moschner@ngmn.org

Feifei Lou

feifei.lou@ngmn.org

 

3GPP

SA5 WG5

TOVINGER, Thomas, Chair,
thomas.tovinger@ericsson.com

-Lan Zou, vice chair

zoulan@huawei.com

 

-Maryse Gardella

maryse.gardella@nokia.com

Mirko Cano Soveri, Secretary Mirko.Cano@etsi.org

CCSA

TC 7

Meng Luoming, Chair, lmmeng@bupt.edu.cn

 

-Li Wenjing, Chair of WG1, wjli@bupt.edu.cn

-Zhang Dehua, Chair of WG2,  zhangdehua@caict.ac.cn

-Liu Yang, Secretary,  liuyang@ccsa.org.cn

LFN

ONAP

ONAP NM Liaison Coordinator

magnus.buhrgard@ericsson.com

 

TM Forum

ANP

Dong Sun, dong.sun@futurewei.com

Luigi Liccardi,  luigi.licciardi@huawei.com

Dave Milham  dmilham@tmforum.org

 


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