1. Network Analytics Suite Release Notes
  2. Feature Descriptions

2 Feature Descriptions

This chapter provides a summary of new features and updates to the existing features for Network Analytics Suite products released in 23.3.x.

2.1 OCNWDAF Feature Descriptions

Release 23.3.0.0.1

No new features or feature enhancements have been introduced in this release.

Release 23.3.0

Oracle Communications Networks Data Analytics Function (OCNWDAF) 23.3.0 has been updated with the following enhancements:

  • User data congestion analytics: The OCNWDAF provides User Data Congestion Analytics to consumers. It includes information about the congestion experienced during user data transfer over the user plane. The OCNWDAF provides both statistical and threshold analytics. The congestion information reported is specific to an Area of Interest (AoI) or a User Equipment (UE). The OCNWDAF provides congestion analytics for a slice based on the Single-Network Slice Selection Assistance Information (S-NSSAI). For more information, see Oracle Communications Networks Data Analytics Function User Guide.
  • Machine Learning (ML) model selection: Machine Learning (ML) Models are programs trained to find patterns within data sets and make predictions on input data. The ML Models are trained over a data set that consists of historical data. The OCNWDAF provides a GUI dashboard to select, train, and optimize one or more ML Models for a given analytics category. For more information, see Oracle Communications Networks Data Analytics Function User Guide.
  • Data collection controller service: In this release, Data Collection Controller microservice has been introduced. The OCNWDAF retrieves data from various sources (for example, NFs such as AMF and SMF) and computes analytics using this data. The Data Collection Controller and Data Collection microservices together perform data collection for the OCNWDAF. The Data Collection Controller Service subscribes to all NFs, manages the subscriptions, and updates the Analytics Subscription service. The Data Collection Service collects data from the producer NFs and streams it to the CAP4C Analytics Engine for further processing. For more information, see Oracle Communications Networks Data Analytics Function User Guide.
  • Network performance, user data congestion analytics visualization on the OCNWDAF dashboard: The OCNWDAF provides network performance and user data congestion analytics to the consumer. The analytics information primarily includes resource consumption by gNodeB (gNB) and mobility performance indicators in the Area of Interest (AoI).The OCNWDAF GUI is enhanced to display all the available cells in a selected Tracking Area, Session Success Ratio, HO Success Ratio, GNB Computing, Memory, and Disk Usage. User can set a threshold value, select a tracking area, and specify a time interval. The GUI displays all the available cells according to the specified parameters. For more information, see Oracle Communications Networks Data Analytics Function User Guide.
  • OCNWDAF dashboard enhancement: The OCNWDAF GUI has been enhanced with rich visual features for ML Model Selection, NF Load Monitoring, and Slice Load Level Analytics. For more information, see Oracle Communications Networks Data Analytics Function User Guide.
  • Performance metrics for user data congestion analytics: OCNWDAF provides performance metrics for the user data congestion analytics ID.

2.2 OCNADD Feature Descriptions

Release 23.3.0.0.1

Oracle Communications Network Analytics Data Director (OCNADD) 23.3.0.0.1 has been updated with the following enhancements:

  • Support for the IPv6 Deployment: The OCNADD supports deployments on the IPv6 enabled infrastructure. The Oracle NFs and the third-party applications can establish connections with OCNADD using IPV6. The following deployment modes are supported:
    • The OCNADD can be deployed in only IPv6 mode
    • The OCNADD can be deployed in only IPv4 mode

For more information, see "Configuring IP Network Support" in Oracle Communications Network Analytics Data Director Installation, Upgrade, and Fault Recovery Guide.

Release 23.3.0

Oracle Communications Network Analytics Data Director (OCNADD) 23.3.0 has been updated with the following enhancements:

  • Support for external Kafka feeds: This feature enables third-party applications to directly consume from the OCNADD Kafka topic without the need for adapters. This feature also provides GUI-based configuration for External Kafka Feeds. Additionally, the Kafka Feed supports optional "host"-based Access Control Lists (ACLs) that allow external consumer applications to connect from specific client machines with designated IP addresses. For more information see the "External Kafka Feeds" section in Oracle Communications Network Analytics Data Director User Guide.
  • Enhanced Ingress and Egress data filtering: New filter conditions (reroute-cause, feed-source-nf-type,feed-source-nf-fqdn,feed-source-nf-instance-id, and feed-source-pod-instance-id) are introduced to enhance Egress data filtering. The OCNADD GUI is enhanced to support configuration of new filter conditions. For more information, see "Data Filtering" and "Data Filters List" sections in Oracle Communications Network Analytics Data Director User Guide.
  • GUI support for L3L4 mapping: OCNADD GUI is enhanced to support L3L4 mapping configuration. For more information, see "L3L4 Information for Synthetic Packet Feed", "Data Feeds List", and "Configure" sections in Oracle Communications Network Analytics Data Director User Guide.
  • Upgrade and Rollback enhancement: The upgrade procedure creates and stores the previous release database backup during the upgrade procedure. In a rollback scenario, the rollback procedure automatically picks up the database backup created during the upgrade to restore it to the previous release.

    For more information, see Oracle Communications Network Analytics Data Director Installation, Upgrade, and Fault Recovery Guide.