Add support for O1 in O-DU via telnet
This change set adds a simple telnet interface to nr-softmodem. Together
with oai/o1-adapter>, this implements a part of the O1 interface, for
the DU only. Currently supported uses cases:
- some stats are send to an SMO (such as bandwidth, PLMN, frequency, ...)
- re-configuration of bandwidth, frequency
- stop/start of the softmodem, while keeping the CU and L2 running
- the o1-adapter implements two alarms, load overload and base station
offline, using this interface.
It is possible to use the telnet interface by itself (i.e., "o1" without
the o1-adapter). To do this, compile with telnet support (./build_oai
--build-lib telnetsrv) and start the nr-softmodem with O1 module
(./nr-softmodem --telnetsrv --telnetsrv.shrmod o1). You can then do the
following:
- see some statistics as exposed to o1-adapter, in JSON: echo o1 stats | nc 127.0.0.1 9090 && echo
- stop the L1: echo o1 stop_modem | nc 127.0.0.1 9090 && echo
- reconfigure bandwidth: e.g., echo o1 bwconfig 20 | nc 127.0.0.1 9090 && echo (also supported: 40, 60, 100)
- start the L1: echo o1 start_modem | nc 127.0.0.1 9090 && echo
Note that the reconfiguration works with split-8 radios. Notably, it
does not work yet out-of-the-box with 7.2 radios, because they have to
be manually reconfigured on bandwith/frequency switch. The planned
M-plane should allow such use case, though.
To help with the above, this branch also includes fixes (for more
information, refer to the corresponding commits):
- fixes for stopping the L1, notably stop threads in right order, stop
thread pool of RU
- collect some general MAC metrics, fix some bugs in MAC
- fix problems in F1AP gNB-DU configuration update message, update test
- fix some problems in RRC
Need to keep track of number of RUs, as the RU initialization increments
the number of RUs. Therefore, subsequent initializations would fail if
we don't decrement first. There is no better place (or I did not find
it) to decrement the number of RUs than in nr_phy_free_RU(). For this
reason, we also have to manually set the number of RUs in nr_prachsim to
1, otherwise the assert will trigger.
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
Implement run-to-completion for processSlotTX. This is achieved by using a new
dynamic_barrier_t which allows to specify callback after the first join has been
made.
Added NTN FDD FR1 bands defined in 3GPP TS 38.101-5
Added support for NTN FDD FR1 bands 254, 255, 256 as specified in 3GPP
TS 38.101-5. Example Conf files added for band254 for 15Khz, 5Mhz and
30Khz, 10Mhz configurations. Tested NTN GEO configuration on band 254
using these conf files.
Added support for NTN FDD FR1 bands 254, 255, 256 as specified in 3GPP TS 38.101-5
Conf files added for 15Khz, 5Mhz and 30Khz, 10Mhz configurations added for these bands
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.
csiim_vars/csirs_vars used to be global array for each UE. Now its present
in phy_data which is in dynamically allocated memory.
MAC config was done without mutex while DL and UL threads could be running
at the same time.
get_ue_nas_info was allocating memory possibly from more than one thread.
Moved it into new init function for UE NAS layer.
Addreses most issues in #869
* the goal of this function is to initialize and configure the RAN Context
* the goal of get_options is to get command line options
* this commit aims at making the implementation more consistent
* move initialization of RC.nb_nr_CC to this function
* cleanup redundant initializations of RC.nb_nr_macrlc_inst outside NRRCConfig
* cleanup redundant initization of RC.nb_nr_macrlc_inst from getter function (get_node_type)
* cleanup RC initialization in RCconfig_NR_L1
* removed redundant log lines (print number of instances in NRRCConfig only)
* do RC init after getting CL options and configuration
* get_node_type shall access configuration only, not RC context
* NRRCConfig shall be called only once: made it thread-safe
This commit removes many logs that just show memory addresses, indices,
etc., which, I presume, do not mean anything to the "average user" and
developers alike.
A new phy scope based on ImGui and ImPlot. This scope uses a different concurrency model than previous
scopes.
The PHY thread writing the data first checks if the data is ready to be written. If its not, nothing is copied.
The GUI thread reads data if available and marks it ready to write. This makes sure that the PHY threads are not
busy copying data that would never be displayed.
Some of the scopes also have a freeze functionality that further limit the amount of data that needs to be copied
from PHY threads. If a scope is "frozen" it still allows the user to explore the data using plots zoom/pan functions
but doesn't cause PHY threads to perform extra writes on the displayed data.
A compile option was added to enable/disable the scope. Use cmake -DENABLE_IMSCOPE=ON to enable the scope.
Update CXX standard to 17; it is required by some libraries (e.g., dear imgui). The oldest gcc version in
use by a distribution supported is Ubuntu 20, which has gcc 9.4 with c++17 support.
This assert and assumption is incorrect, according to 38.101-1 UE channel is defined only by the BWP size
and BWP size can be any value supported by the RRC parameters defining the BWP.
To determine the UE channel the smallest bandwidth supporting the BWP is selected. This is an assumption based
on references in the same document to UE channel bandwidth being equal to one of the values in set
{5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100}.
Also:
- calculated P_CMIN during BWP setup since the parameter doesn't depend on DCI.
- initiialize uniqCfg structure in test_nr_ue_power_procedures main function which enables LOG prints during tests
- Reworked nrLDPC_decoder_offload.c to process all segments in a TB with a single call to LDPCdecoder() or LDPCencoder().
- Perform CRC checks on the T2.
- Modified nr_ulsch_decoding (gNB decoder) to:
- Count processed segments.
- Properly perform CRC checks.
- Created a constant NR_LDPC_MAX_NUM_CB to define the maximum number of codeblocks.
- Conditional library loading:
- On gNB: Load ldpc_t2 library if offload is enabled using the --ldpc-offload-enable flag.
- On UE: Load both ldpc_t2 and ldpc libraries since only encoder offload is supported.
- General cleanup of nrLDPC_decoder_offload.c for improved readability and maintainability.
- Modified the structure of LDPC encoder/decoder/offload parameters:
- Introduced a structure for code block (CB) related parameters.
- Removed parameter E from the encoder and offload parameter structures for clarity.
- Replaced E with perCB->E_cb in the UE encoder code.
- Phy config update and Sidelink frame parameters initialisation
- PSBCH scheduler to trigger TX PSBCH/RX PSBCH actions
- Sidelink indication with rx ind to trigger send SL-MIB to MAC
- Enable Scope for PSBCH use -d or --dqt
- Enable system testing of PSBCH for example using RFSIMULATOR:
- UE1 is a SYNCRONISATION SOURCE UE which transmits PSBCH
started using command -
sudo ./nr-uesoftmodem --sl-mode 2 --sync-ref 4 --rfsim --rfsimulator.serveraddr server
- UE2 syncs onto UE1 during sidelink search, gets the timing and continues to receive PSBCH
started using command -
sudo ./nr-uesoftmodem --sl-mode 2 --rfsim --rfsimulator.serveraddr 127.0.0.1
- In the default use case 2 Sidelink SSBs sent over 16 frames.
- In case SL-SSB configuration needs to be changed use -O option in the above command like
-O ../../../targets/PROJECTS/NR-SIDELINK/CONF/sidelink_preconfig_1txpool.conf
Robert Schmidt