To allow to send F1 messages to multiple DUs from the CU, we need to
send these messages via different assoc_id (SCTP association ID,
basically akin to a file descriptor). Currently, the assoc_id is stored
in a context at the F1 module and retrieved in
f1ap_itti_send_sctp_data_req().
To facilitate a later change towards indicating (from the RRC) to which
assoc_id (hence, DU) to send a message, we refactor all
CU_send_*()/DU_send_*() functions to take the assoc_id as a parameter to
which to send messages. In this commit, we then pass the assoc_id from
the context. A later commit changes this (at the CU) to pass the
assoc_id from the message to be sent.
This commit repairs the reestablishment after the introduction of the CU
UE ID in the CU, different from the DU UE ID. Now, the CU uses an
identifier different from the RNTI, used in the MAC, to refer to UEs.
To repair the reestablishment, a number of changes needed to be
introduced:
- Handle old_gNB_DU_UE_id in MAC
The MAC handles the old_gNB_DU_UE_id field in the DL RRC Message. The
commit adds encoding/decoding of the field. The MAC will drop the old
UE, but retain the CellGroup of the corresponding UE(!). Because a UE
releases the spCellGroup on reestablishment, the MAC does the same; it
needs to reapply the old configuration after a reconfiguration. For the
latter, introduce new variables to keep a "future" CellGroupConfig to be
applied (reconfigCellGroup) and a flag (expect_reconfiguration) that
applies the CellGroupConfig if a DL RRC Message transfer on DCCH, which
is assumed to be the reconfiguration.
- Add RNTI change in RLC
The RLC needs to reuse the old UE context. Hence, we simply change the
RNTI in the old context, and delete the new one.
- No PDCP UE ID change
The previous implementation of the PDCP used the RNTI; hence, the ID
needed to be switch (as above for the RLC). Since the PDCP now also uses
the CU UE ID, no identifier change is needed, and we remove all
corresponding code.
- No MAC modifications/update from CU
As foreseen by the spec, the CU does not modify or change the
cellGroupConfig in the RRC during reestablishment. This change will be
generalized in the future to all of the RRC. Also, the
nr_rrc_mac_remove_ue() function has been removed: the MAC handles any UE
changes autonomeously, without being triggered from the RRC explicitly.
- Remove reestablish_rnti_map
The RRC does not use RNTIs for UE identification. Hence, a
reestablish_rnti_map to link two UEs to each other is not necessary
anymore.
The UE had a list of known UEs. With the introduction of a separate
module for F1 UE ID handling that is also used in monolithic (to
separate CU UE ID from DU UE ID), this functionality is not needed, and
deleted in this commit.
- The CU/DU UE ID is used in DL RRC Message Transfer
- Note: The CU UE ID currently is still the RNTI
- on every DL RRC Message, the DU verifies that the UE exists
- Refactor RRC: common function to forward protected SRB PDUs
We don't work much on asn1c. The version we use has several bugs.
There is an active community out there that fixes bugs and improves
asn1c. Let's use their version.
Previously, in f1ap_decoder.c, we asserted if we did not know a message.
Apart form decoding, we did not do anything in that file.
Additionally, in f1ap_handlers.c, we were also checking for an unknown
message, and printing a warning if a handler is not known.
This commit moves the F1AP message decoding to f1ap_handlers.c, and
deletes f1ap_decoder.c. In summary, we don't assert on an unknown
message, and compile less files. The rest is unchanged.
OAI is riddled with boolean_t, FALSE, TRUE, etc. This makes no sense, as
there is a standard bool type, and could lead to nasty bugs if a
definition of a bool is non-standard (0 == false, true == !false). This
commit removes all non-standard bools in the whole project.
francescomani