New LDPC coding library interface for decoding and encoding complete slots in one call to the library
Previous attempts to integrate LDPC decoding relying on offloading show
the limitation of the original code segment coding interface for the
library implementing LDPC coding. In order to perform the offload and
therefore the decoding in an optimal fashion, it is relevant to provide
the implementation with the broader amount of data possible per call,
which is a slot. A previous MR related to T2 offload managed to offer
an interface for decoding transport blocks by modifying only
nr_ulsch_decoding.c. But this may not be sufficient for performing an
efficient decoding in any situation. Slots could be shared between
multiple transport blocks in case multiple UEs are connected to the RAN,
which makes the transport block size shrink and therefore degrades the
efficiency of the offloading.
This MR offers a broader interface with a gNB decoding entry point in
phy_procedures_nr_gNB.c. The file nr_ulsch_decoding.c now lets the
decoding library implement deinterleaving, rate-unmatching and decoding
for the slot. In gNB encoding and UE decoding and encoding as well,
tasks are partitioned in a similar fashion.
As it allows to feed the implementation with the broadest amount of data
possible, it allows to fit any coding solution in a library. This will
avoid further modification to OAI source code and addition of options to
select an implementation when integrating new decoding solutions. An
implementation of this interface will therefore be offered for every
existing decoding solution in OAI and solutions added in the future will
be provided as independent module code without any modification to the
core of OAI code. The way to choose the decoding solution and to
configure it was also unified using configmodule. The library can be
chosen through the option --loader.ldpc.shlibversion. The slot coding
solutions shipped with this MR can be configured through configmodule
(e.g., T2 address and isolated cores).
This MR includes three coding implementations:
- A wrapper around segment decoding libraries for test purpose: libldpc.so
- A one shot slot coding and encoding with the T2 board: libldpc_t2.so
- A decoder on FPGA using the XDMA driver: libldpc_xdma.so
Improvements brought by this MR:
- Easy integration of a wider variety of LDPC coding solution at gNB and UE
- Easy selection of the LDPC coding solution (option --ldpc-offload-enable is kept for now but it can be ultimately removed)
- T2:
* More efficient when many UEs are connected
* Decoding and encoding in nr-uesoftmodem
Upon restoration to ploss, set to 20; when setting to 0, the UE is not
able to sync to the cell anymore.
Co-authored-by: Robert Schmidt <robert.schmidt@openairinterface.org>
In CI we sometimes encouter fail of the gNB/UE deployment (and fail of
the pipeline) caused by unsuccsessful initialization of the USRP N310.
Restart the container if the health check fails during initialization.
Introduce a configurable parameter (from XML) to set max number of
attempts for the container deployment.
Store logs from failed deployment attempts.
chore(ci): adding Flexric-RAN integration test
- Triggering a standalone FLEXRIC + 5G-RAN pipeline: OAI-FLEXRIC-RAN-Integration-Test
- will be triggered by the RAN-Container-Parent
- but also by the OAI-FLEXRIC pipeline (to be done once integrated)
- Added an new python option: --FlexRicTag= than if not used, won't have any effect
- Nice addition:
- if --FlexRicTag=develop or --ranCommitID=develop --> will use the latest commit
on either dev or develop branch.
- Scenario-wise
- Using the cn5g deployment file from Luis in documentation, at least we will use
it to make sure it is working at all time
- We can add more test and especially checkers on the flexric calls
Linked to !3085 (merged)
Replace current docker deployment of OAI CN by deployment on OC. With change
of the CN, we also need to change the routing for UE module - change the
mbim script for controling the UE.
- pass parameter directly instead of indirectly via class
- harmonize to svr_id to read through common code in the next commits
- pass images to express which images will be deleted
- refactor function to use "with" for cls_cmd, and return success (or
not)
- reuse cls_containerize.Containerize.PullImage()
- pass parameter directly instead of indirectly via class
- always read node name and use this instead of "sometimes" looking it
up from a class member. With "sometimes" I mean that if no node name
is given, it will take it from self.eNBIPAddress, which is confusing
at best if we can give the node name directly
- consistently put the node name in the xml file
- pass parameter directly instead of indirectly via class
- call it simply "images", to harmonize with clean-function later
- harmonize to svr_id as in the previous commit
- rewrite function to use with-statement with cls_cmd
- optionally pass a tag to use (which will be used in a test, and can be
used to pull flexric)
- Introduce Pull_Image() which does the actual pulling, can pull from
any registry, and will be reused in the case of pulling from cluster.
The CI pipeline RAN-NSA-B200-Module-LTEBOX-Container uses the same core
network (ltebox) as the pipelines RAN-LTE-{TDD,FDD}-LTEBOX-Container,
triggered through the same XML files. However, the core networks are on
different hosts, configured through (Jenkins) pipeline configuration. A
future MR will move the entire core network configuration into the XML
files [1]. To facilitate this, create separate XML files for the NSA
pipeline.
[1] The advantage is that it will be easier to reason with only the XML
files what is going to be run where and how.
- pass parameter directly instead of indirectly via class
- harmonize to svr_id to harmonize parameter with parameters in the next
commit (and towards a future harmonization of directly taking node
names instead of "IDs")
* trigger re-establshemnt on DU: reset RLC counters on DRB 1
for OAI UE, since SRB 1 does not work for lack of periodic
measurements reports
* how is the re-establishment triggered?
* a transmission on DRB 1 occurs
* detection of a mismatch of RLC counters at the UE side
* max number of RLC retransmissions reached
* RLF detection
* verify re-establishment on CU: we ping the core from the UE; this
sends packets on DRB, and because the sequence number mismatches, will
trigger a reestablishment. We accept in the ping that a couple of
packets might be lost; after ping is over, reestablishment must be
done as well (else the ping will already fail).
CI: Cleanup of cls_physim.py
- Remove unused code and file
- Rework functions for CUDA and T2 log analysis
- Check if test was successful for nr_ulsim and nr_dlsim in
RAN-gNB-N300-Timing-Phytest-LDPC pipeline
Set SA mode as default
- Set standalone (SA) mode as the default.
- Adjust commands in Docker Compose files by removing --sa flags and
adding --nsa flags where applicable.
- Add a function to verify that only one mode is being used at a time.
- Update all relevant documentation.
The first thing Build_Proxy does is to remove the repository. Further,
Build_Proxy does not use the OAI RAN repo, but the proxy repo. The
Create_Workspace() is therefore completely useless.
- Introduce "Run_Physim" function for running ldpctest (with CUDA) and
nr_dlsim/nr_ulsim (with T2) in RAN-gNB-N300-Timing-Phytest-LDPC test
pipeline.
- Create "cls_analysis.py" and introduce "analyze_physim" for
log analysis of physim tests.
- Define patterns to be searched in the physim logs.
- Extract and print information about total gNB RX/TX PHY processing time
from nr_ulsim/nr_dlsim logs.
- Remove "cls_physim.py" as it is not used anymore, cleanup "main.py".
Fix Regression 4G
- Fix various bugs and/or regressions in 4G code
- Also, the CI does not test RFsim 4G with --sanitize, enables this to
detect problems.
CI: Update RAN-gNB-N300-Timing-Phytest-LDPC test cases
- update enc/decoder tests in RAN-gNB-N300-Timing-Phytest-LDPC - test
only for given SNR value (check of the test results to be added in the
following MR)
- add cores to Tpool in the nr_dlsim test cases, currently we test with
only one core
- always execute all the nr_ulsim/nr_dlsim tests, even if one of them
fails
- add new nr_dlsim test cases - test with 4 antennas, 2 layers
Set a maximum SNR value using the "-S" option to ensure that nr_dlsim
or nr_ulsim is executed only for a given SNR. This approach allows us
to verify the success of the encoding/decoding process at the specified
SNR. Check if the test succeeds is not yet implemented (currently we
only retrieve an information about encoding/decoding processing time).
To be implemented in the separate MR.
Always execute all the nr_dlsim/nr_ulsim tests even if one of them
fails. Each test takes around 5s, so we can execute them all to get
results for all the test scenarios.
Modify the UL/DL UDP iperf test cases to use a higher requested bitrate
for the scenario with 100 MHz bandwidth in the SA-2x2 pipeline. Adjust
gNB config file to allow for higher UL throughput.
In this pipeline, we frequently see losses of a single packet; we did
not find the true reason yet.
Accept 5% losses, assuming that serious packet loss would be catched by
(1) higher ping losses (2) iperf would be affected.
Robert Schmidt