5 OCNWDAF Analytics

This chapter describes the OCNWDAF analytics information.

5.1 OCNWDAF Analytics

An OCNWDAF consumer can avail analytics information or reports for various events in the network. The consumers can subscribe (or unsubscribe) to the OCNWDAF to obtain specific analytics reports as a one-time event or periodically get notified when a defined event is detected. The analytics information provided by the OCNWDAF is either statistical information on past events or predictive information which can be used to balance the resources in the network.

The OCNWDAF assists in collecting and analyzing data in a 5G network. The OCNWDAF currently supports NFs as data producers but the data consumers can be not only be 5G NFs but AFs and OAM can also be consumers of analytics information. The OCNWDAF allows the Communications Service providers (CSPs) to efficiently monitor, manage, automate, and optimise their network operations by analysing the data collected across the network.

Listed below are the type of analytics reports that OCNWDAF can provide:

• Historical analytics
• Future analytics
• Reports when a thresholds are crossed
• Predictions on network behaviour and resource usage
• Detection of abnormal events in the network

The OCNWDAF provides the following analytics information:

• Slice Load level information
• UE mobility information
• UE Abnormal behaviour information (unexpected UE location, UE movement with respect to a geofence area)
• NF Load Level Analytics
• Network Performance Analytics
• User Data Congestion Analytics (only statistical analytics)
• QoS Sustainability Analytics
• Capex Optimization Analytics