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High-level Roadmap for the Aether OnRamp project.

Stage 1: Get Started

An initial version of this exists. Remaining tasks include:

• Fix Helm Chart versions in config/release-2.1
• Specify requirements for BYO-Kubernetes scenario.

Stage 2: GitOps

An initial version of this exists. Remaining tasks include:

• Add missing component (from https://github.com/opennetworkinglab/aether-configs)
• Automatically load AMP config files (ROC Models & Monitoring Dashboards)
• Reconcile with manual approach (e.g., values.yaml files, clean-related targets, milestones)

Stage 3: Physical Base Stations

AiaB already supports 4G small cells. 5G example is being debugged. Also need to do the following:

• Demystify value.yaml files
• Define a "SIM burning" process
• Add a second (and third) base station

Stage 4: Scale SD-Core

Spin up multiple Slices and UPF instances. The AiaB-UERANSIM project by Tiago Barros (https://github.com/dot-1q/AiaB-UERANSIM) documents one way to do this, which provides a good starting point.

Stage 5: Network Config

Factor out how the network is configured, making it easier to support different options. Specific tasks include:

• Make SR-IOV one (of possibly many) options
• Explain the set of alternatives to be supported.
• Specify requirements for any additional options.

Stage 6: Scale Cluster

Grow the cluster from a single server to multiple servers. Describe the process for deploying additional edge services.

Stage 7: Incorporate SD-RAN

• Prune options (focus on OAI Hardware & RAN Sim)
• Run on RKE2.0 (rather than Kubespray)
• Integrate with SD-Core (rather than OMEC)