Join OpenSlice at the ETSI SNS4SNS Event!

Don’t miss the chance to connect with the OpenSlice community at the upcoming ETSI SNS4SNS Event, 12-14 November 2024 in Sophia Antipolis (France). ETSI SDG OpenSlice work will be actively featured during the conference in talks, panels, demos, posters, and of course during our very first OpenSlice Hackfest!

The event is free of charge and open to all, but seats are limited: register now!

SDG OpenSlice at the SNS4SNS Conference

The Conference on Software and Standards for Smart Networks and Services will bring together experts and decision makers from different standards organizations, open source communities and research initiatives to discuss synergies, best practices and opportunities for collaboration in the design and development of sustainable and interoperable networks and services. The conference will include sessions on Access Networks and Services, Telco Cloud Infrastructure, Management, Orchestration and Operations, Network Exposure, APIs and Programmability and will conclude with a large operator panel to discuss conclusions and next steps.

Session 3 - Management, Orchestration and Operations will be chaired by Christos TRANORIS, Chair of SDG OpenSlice, and will include talks from LF Nephio, TM Forum, ETSI OpenSourceMANO and OpenSlice, followed by a panel with the speakers.

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1st SDG OpenSlice Hackfest (Tutorial)

This very first OpenSlice Hackfest is a great opportunity for participants to get a first hands-on experience with OpenSlice. Starting with a guided step by step installation, participants will get familiar with network service design and understand the benefits of service orchestration and operation through comprehensive examples that streamline zero-touch network management. We will design and deliver flexible NaaS solutions that cater to the dynamic needs of the industry and modern research to create sophisticated orchestration processes that ensure seamless integration and management of network services.

The wiki page of the Hackfest/Tutorial explains all the details of the hands-on activities that you can discover when you join the Hackfest/Tutorial. It is specifically designed for newcomers and beginners without should come along with their laptop.

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OpenSlice Demos

Stand 1A - Open Source for Telco-Cloud: An ETSI SDG-based solution to facilitate zero-touch, multi-slice 5G deployments across the cloud-edge continuum by Kostis TRANTZAS, UPATRAS

This demonstration illustrates a zero-touch delivery of a distributed 5G network across a cloud-edge continuum over multiple cloud providers, by integrating three open-source solutions of ETSI Software Development Groups (SDGs) - OSM, TFS, and OSL. To that extent, the demonstration involves the logical interconnection of public and private resources providing an adjustable and seamless network fabric over numerous network devices.

Over this zero-touch created network substrate, the adopted open-source solution orchestrates the deployment of disaggregated cloud-native 5G resources, composing a multi-slice setup while also addressing access control on domain resources. In addition, the solution employs stratum-based, programmable P4 switches to not only carry out the routing but also perform in-band network monitoring for deep visibility into the network state. In principle, the demonstrated solution relies on widely utilized, standard interfaces and data models such as TMF APIs, IETF L2/L3 VPN Service Delivery, and ETSI NFV SOL005 to achieve those objectives.

Stand 1B - Demonstrating Synergies between ETSI SDG OSL and LF Sylva by Christos TRANORIS , UPATRAS

OpenSlice is an open-source software solution supported by the ETSI SDG OSL initiative. It is capable of provisioning services and resources through orchestration procedures over TMF APIs. OSL allows service providers to efficiently manage network resources and operations through its API-driven orchestration layer. In addition, Sylva is a project under the Linux Foundation designed specifically for the telco and edge cloud ecosystem. It provides a cloud software framework tailored to telco and edge requirements, addressing the industry’s technical challenges and developing a reference implementation of this framework.

Sylva’s goal is to create a validation program for these implementations, ensuring that they meet the evolving demands of the telecom industry.

The demo will introduce a new Sylva resource operator that OSL incorporates as an extension. This will showcase how OSL tenants can seamlessly request and manage Sylva workload clusters in a self-service manner. Moreover, the demo will highlight how Sylva’s telco-focused cloud software framework can be exposed, requested, and managed using OSL’s orchestration capabilities over TMF APIs, demonstrating how these two platforms can work together to meet the evolving technical challenges of telco and edge ecosystems. In essence, the demo will explore the use of TMF APIs for this interaction and illustrate the simplicity and efficiency with which OSL tenants can order and utilize Kubernetes clusters created and managed by Sylva.

Stand 2A - Multi-dimensional Trust estimation for Trust-aware Slicing and Orchestration by J.A. ALONSO , UCM

(Demo) System that estimates the Level of Trust (LoT) for E2E services considering multiple QoS and Security dimensions, including traffic attestation via Proofs-of-Transit. The estimated LoT will be dynamically updated following complementary time-driven and event-driven approaches. It will be used for multi-domain slicing and orchestration operations that will eventually enhance the Trust of services.

Stand 2B - Joint End-to-End Service and Resource Orchestration with Built-In Telemetry services by Alexandros VALANTASIS, UBITECH

In this demonstration, the Maestro end-to-end service orchestrator developed by UBITECH gets integrated (through standard TMForum APIs) with ETSI OSL, acting as a resource-level orchestrator atop 5G-based infrastructures. In turn, ETSI OSL delegates the orchestration of 5G core network functions to ETSI OSM, demonstrating a synergy of 3 orchestrators (and 2 SDGs) with a common objective, i.e., to accommodate a vertical application. This composite orchestration stack automatically provisions and manages a predictive maintenance industrial application across 2 geo-distributed testbeds in Greece, while realizing real-time compute and 5G infrastructure telemetry as well as service-level telemetry - both illustrated through Grafana dashboards.

Stand 4A - OpenSlice as an enabler of the FIDAL experimentation framework by Melissa Keenie SCOTT, PSC Europe

The demonstration will focus on FIDAL’s experimentation framework with a focus on OpenSlice. It will show how OpenSlice is used as the cross-domain slice manager, how the OpenSlice service orchestrator is responsible for provisioning and delivering the network slice from the Maestro request to OpenSourceMano, and managing the slice’s lifecycle.

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Posters

Implementation of a Deep Reinforcement Learning Solution for Radio Access Network Slicing in an Edge-enabled Beyond 5G Architecture by Oriol SALLENT, UPC

The poster presents the implementation of a Deep Reinforcement Learning solution for RAN slicing. This solution is part of the portfolio of AI methods for optimizing edge and network performance considered by the VERGE project. The implementation relies on open standardized interfaces.

Human-centric Service Onboarding with OpenSlice by Rafael DIREITO, IT Aveiro

This poster highlights the role of ETSI Openslice in the RIGOUROUS European Research Project. RIGOUROUS focuses on identifying and mitigating cybersecurity, trust, and privacy risks associated with network, devices, computing infrastructure, and next-generation services. The project’s core objective is to achieve native security orchestration for 6G infrastructure by leveraging SOAR and DevSecOps methodologies. A standout feature of RIGOUROUS is its human-centric approach to Service onboarding and management. This approach integrates various human-centric UIs and high-level system policies that enable the design of services with feedback on their security and privacy levels. This is where ETSI Openslice plays a critical role. ETSI Openslice enables the seamless onboarding of Service Descriptors, Security Definitions, and Privacy Manifests, which helps differentiate Services based on their privacy and security characteristics. Defining security characteristics and the exploration space allows for the continuous enforcement of the security requirements. Privacy quantification mechanisms, backed by predefined metrics and algorithms, provide user-friendly privacy management with intuitive controls. Through ETSI Openslice, the RIGOUROUS project has achieved a Service Catalog with continuously verified Services. These Services support the offering of various derived Products, with different working and security characteristics. Additionally, all Services and Products can be managed through LCM (Lifecycle Management) rules, simplifying the exposal of information about running Services. With ETSI Openslice, RIGOUROUS delivers a secure, user-friendly platform designed to meet the evolving needs of 6G services while upholding trust and privacy.

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