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| SD-Core Upcoming Release |
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| Currently SD-Core has high level focus of making AMF & SMF cloud native. Also |
| adding some new features in the gNBSim to give more flexibility to user. |
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| Work Items |
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| **Documentation update** : Update SD-Core document and Aether document |
| to answer frequently asked questions. |
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| **Cloud Native Control Plane** |
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| - NRF Keepalive : Each Network Function does periodic registration towards NRF. |
| NRF removes the network function from the NRF database if keepalive missed for configured number of seconds. |
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| - Saving Subscriber States : Enable subscriber state storage in database. |
| Upcoming release is planned to have support for AMF & SMF. |
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| - Multiple Instance of AMF : Support running multiple instances of AMF |
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| - Multiple Instance of SMF : Support running multiple instances of SMF |
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| - SCTPLB : SctpLb is new component to terminate SCTP connection from gNodeB. |
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| - UPF-Adapter : Upf-adapter is a new component used by multiple SMF instances to communicate with UPF |
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| **Common Features** |
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| - SMF supports - UE address allocation from UPF. This feature was already supported in 4G (SPGW). Now |
| with new release, this feature will be part of 5G Core. |
| - AMF API to de-register subscriber |
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| **gNBSim improvements to support** |
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| - REST Interface to start profile |
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| - Custom profile to run arbitrary procedures for subscribers |
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| - Adding Custom Delay between execution of the subscribers profiles |
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| - GTPU Echo Request/Response Support in gNBSim |
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| - Making gNBSim configurable to send user defined slice Ids & DNN |
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| - Sending correct TAC information in the ULI IE |