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| SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 |
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| SD-Core Next Release |
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| We expect next SD-Core release to be available in the mid of **Jan 2023**. |
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| Metrics Support |
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| - Creating SD-Core metrics dashboard for 5G |
| - Should handle multiple instances of AMF, SMF |
| - Example statistics could be - `Number of UEs, UE status, UPFs status, gNB status, UE details` |
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| Extensions of AMF, SMF Cloud Native Support |
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| - Robustness test with multiple AMF, SMF |
| - Auto scale AMF, SMF with CPU/Memory/Custom metrics |
| - Adding SBI Load Balancer |
| - Multiple instances of SCTP LBs |
| - Multiple instances of UPF adapter |
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| Cloud Native UPF |
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| - Running multiple instances of UPF |
| - Storing states in DB |
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| gNBSim Features |
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| - gNBSim deployment as single docker container |
| - Running multiple gNodeBs under same gNBSim container |
| - gNodeB handover support |
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| NRF Notification |
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| - NRF discovery result cache support |
| - NRF notification integration in AMF, SMF |
| - SCTPLb to use NRF notification, discovery APIs (postponed) |
| - Distributed Resource Sharing Module (DRSM) to use NRF notification & discovery APIs |
| - UPF Adapter to use NRF notification & discovery APIs |
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| Redundancy Events |
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| - Testing restart of Sctplb |
| - Testing restart of upf adapter |
| - Testing restart of metric function |
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| .. note:: |
| Some of the features mentioned above are stretch goals and we rely on community members to |
| submit the code. There is chance that some of the code may not be able to make it to next |
| release. |