| Ajay Lotan Thakur | a2fce1b | 2022-08-29 23:00:12 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | .. |
| 2 | SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022-present Intel Corporation |
| 3 | SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 |
| 4 | |
| 5 | SD-Core Upcoming Release |
| 6 | ======================== |
| 7 | |
| 8 | Currently SD-Core has high level focus of making AMF & SMF cloud native. Also |
| 9 | adding some new features in the gNBSim to give more flexibility to user. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | Work Items |
| 12 | ---------- |
| 13 | |
| 14 | **Documentation update** : Update SD-Core document and Aether document |
| 15 | to answer frequently asked questions. |
| 16 | |
| 17 | **Cloud Native Control Plane** |
| 18 | |
| 19 | - NRF Keepalive : Each Network Function does periodic registration towards NRF. |
| 20 | NRF removes the network function from the NRF database if keepalive missed for configured number of seconds. |
| 21 | |
| 22 | - Saving Subscriber States : Enable subscriber state storage in database. |
| 23 | Upcoming release is planned to have support for AMF & SMF. |
| 24 | |
| 25 | - Multiple Instance of AMF : Support running multiple instances of AMF |
| 26 | |
| 27 | - Multiple Instance of SMF : Support running multiple instances of SMF |
| 28 | |
| 29 | - SCTPLB : SctpLb is new component to terminate SCTP connection from gNodeB. |
| 30 | |
| 31 | - UPF-Adapter : Upf-adapter is a new component used by multiple SMF instances to communicate with UPF |
| 32 | |
| 33 | **Common Features** |
| 34 | |
| 35 | - SMF supports - UE address allocation from UPF. This feature was already supported in 4G (SPGW). Now |
| 36 | with new release, this feature will be part of 5G Core. |
| Ajay Lotan Thakur | cafac84 | 2022-09-15 23:15:58 -0700 | [diff] [blame^] | 37 | - AMF API to de-register subscriber |
| Ajay Lotan Thakur | a2fce1b | 2022-08-29 23:00:12 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 38 | |
| 39 | **gNBSim improvements to support** |
| 40 | |
| 41 | - REST Interface to start profile |
| 42 | |
| 43 | - Custom profile to run arbitrary procedures for subscribers |
| 44 | |
| 45 | - Adding Custom Delay between execution of the subscribers profiles |
| 46 | |
| 47 | - GTPU Echo Request/Response Support in gNBSim |
| 48 | |
| 49 | - Making gNBSim configurable to send user defined slice Ids & DNN |
| 50 | |
| 51 | - Sending correct TAC information in the ULI IE |