Configure CSI-RS according to beam_id used by UE
This MR is to configure CSI-RS according to beam_id used by UE and
reconfigure upon beam change.
It has been tested with RFSIM, Liteon and Microamp under multiple beams.
GPU Channel Simulation: nr_dlsim/nr_ulsim Integration + CI Test
This MR is a follow-up to !3886 (merged) and extends CUDA-based channel
simulation support to nr_dlsim and nr_ulsim, together with the
corresponding CI tests.
The MR incorporates:
- Cherry-picked commits e0c204f7 and 5f344876 from !3588
- Integration of new CI physim tests using GPU-accelerated channel
simulation in nr_dlsim and nr_ulsim tests, see commit c727b3bb
New CI job: RAN-Channel-Simulation
https://jenkins-oai.eurecom.fr/job/RAN-Channel-Simulation/
Fix compilation error:
/oai-ran/openair1/SIMULATION/NR_PHY/dlsim.c:932:42: error: variable 'h_channel_coeffs' set but not used [-Werror,-Wunused-but-set-variable]
932 | float *h_channel_coeffs = NULL;
| ^
- Introduce usage of the -f option in ulsim to allow enabling specific
feature flags at runtime.
- Add support for the "cuda" flag to enable CUDA channel simulation when
compiled with CUDA support. If an unsupported flag is provided, nr_ulsim
reports an error.
This commit integrates the GPU-based channel simulation pipeline into
the ulsim.
A `--cuda` command-line flag is added to enable the GPU path at
runtime. When activated, the simulator will:
- Allocate all necessary GPU and pinned host memory via the
`init_cuda_chsim_buffers` helper function.
- In the main simulation loop, call the `run_channel_pipeline_cuda`
function to perform the channel simulation on the GPU, bypassing the
CPU-based functions.
- Clean up all CUDA resources on exit using the
`free_cuda_chsim_buffers` helper.
The cpu path is also updated to use multipath_channel_float and add_noise_float.
- Replace previous handling of -f with a generic feature flag option.
- Add support for the "cuda" flag to enable CUDA channel simulation when
compiled with ENABLE_CUDA.
- Remove unused SCGroupConfig file handling (scg_fd) and related code.
- Clean up deprecated code and variables associated with SCG reading - not
required anymore after b232be94ed
Remove L1 dependence from NR band number
L1 band information relied on get_band function that couldn't provide an
unambiguous result. Also there is no SCF compliant parameter for L1 and
generally we don't really need that information in L1.
The MR also remove a RU section that used nr_band but was never really
accessed in NR.
Fix error
openair1/SIMULATION/NR_PHY/dlsim.c:1057:37: runtime error: member access within misaligned address 0x7f8a67e01010 for type 'struct NR_Sched_Rsp_t', which requires 32 byte alignment
This commit integrates the CUDA-based channel simulation pipeline into
the nr_dlsim.
A new `--cuda` command-line flag is added to enable the GPU path at
runtime. When activated, the simulator will:
- Allocate all necessary GPU and pinned host memory via the new
`init_cuda_chsim_buffers` helper function.
- In the main simulation loop, call the `run_channel_pipeline_cuda`
function to perform the channel simulation on the GPU, bypassing the
CPU-based functions.
- Clean up all CUDA resources on exit using the
`free_cuda_chsim_buffers` helper.
Additionally, dlsim is now using the float version of channel_multipath and add_noise functions.
Also, The input data is formatted as interleaved IQ, with separate antennas to ensure a fair comparison with the GPU operation.
In this case, there are a number of linker errors:
/usr/bin/ld: libL2_NR.a(rrc_gNB.c.o): in function `nr_rrc_transfer_protected_rrc_message':
/home/richie/oai/openair2/RRC/NR/rrc_gNB.c:330:(.text+0x6f6): undefined reference to `signal_rrc_msg'
However, nr_srssim does not need RRC, while it is being linked in. Thus,
link without nr_rrc and L2. For the remaining two linker problems:
- provide a definition of NR_IF_Module_init() as in most other
simulators
- move rrc_get_max_nr_csrs() to nr_common.c. It is already declared in
the corresponding header, and itself does not have anything to do with
RRC radio configuration, therefore it does not belong to
nr_radio_config.c
semi-manual remove of not used #define commands
As i was upset to see all these #define with no code under, i made a
global pass to remove the obvious cases semi-manual remove of not used
bodies
manual script, then a lot of manual review
grep -IRs "#define" ../openair* ../common/* ../executables/ ../nfapi/ ../radio/ | \
fgrep -v '(' | fgrep -v '//' |awk '{print $2}' | egrep -v "#define *$n"| \
while read n ; do
grep -IRs $n ../openair* ../common/* ../executables/ ../nfapi/ ../radio/ | grep -v "#define *$n" | grep -q $n || echo $n;
done
will give a decent list of #define never used. Then, I think we should
keep lists of # define when it comes from standards, even if the code
doesn't use it right now
NR UE: add support for multiple RF frontends
This MR adds basic support for multiple RF-frontends at the UE.
There are multiple reasons why we might want this:
1. There might be different antennas needed for different bands (e.g. NTN or
TN antennas). These antennas might be connected to different RF-frontends.
In case of Handover, the UE needs to dynamically switch between these
RF-frontends.
2. Each rf-simulator connection carries baseband I/Q samples. To be able to
perform a handover between two cells at different frequencies, there must
be two rf-simulator connections, as the baseband channels should not
interfere and thus cannot simply be added.
3. When we want to support multiple UE simulation within one instance of
nr-uesoftmodem, and allow multiple cells and probably even handover between
these cells, we need either:
1. dedicated RF-frontends for each simulated UE, or
2. dedicated RF-frontends for each connected cell and dynamically assign
simulated UEs accordingly.
This MR implements what is needed for 1., 2. and 3.1.
Rename nr_slot_fep_ul to nr_symbol_fep_ul to relfect its function
Simplify logic so that the function does not require RU context and
the implementation is not dependent on the implementation of RU buffer management.
This makes the function easier to understand and moves the responsibility
to set the correct buffer offset on the caller.
- Introduce signal energy and noise variance functions
- Combine rotation and OFDM modulation RX as a function
- Harmonize the use of number of antennas across the code
- Rename nr_ue_pusch_common_procedures() to nr_tx_rotation_and_ofdm_mod() to decribe the functionality better
Add symbol timing functions for NR_DL_FRAME_PARMS + optimization for slot timing
counterparts
Add two new functions for calculation symbol timestamp and symbol duration for
NR_DL_FRAME_PARMS. Also includes an optimization focused on removing
inefficiencies related slot-related counterparts.
1. Removed function pointers for functions get_samples_per_slot(),
get_samples_slot_timestamp() and get_slot_from_timestamp() as it does
not offer any advantage. The functions are now called directly from
everywhere.
2. Optimized these functions by removing loops where ever possible.
NR UE: calculate TA based on SIB19 information in NTN mode, if autonomous TA is not enabled
To achieve the goal, the hyper frame number (HFN) is introduced at the NR UE
PHY, MAC and RRC layers.
Besides this, we also implemented an orbit propagation to improve the accuracy
of N_UE_TA_adj, and a fix to keep the N_TA from RAR and MAC CE.
Fixes#981
E2SM-RC RRC message forwarding (e.g., to signal a new UE, measurement
reports, ...) was broken since commit d6c29b2d2c, as we accidentally
removed the E2_AGENT compilation definition from RRC layer.
Although this commit fixes the mentioned issue, it also causes undefined
references to functions defined in ran_func_rc.c file. Therefore, we
add a hack that provides the definition, and abort if we ever hit these
functions, which in theory should not happen.
Future cleanup should avoid linking in RRC and other layers into
simulators.
Fixes: d6c29b2d2c ("Fix E2_AGENT linking w.r.t. simulators ")
Consistently use OAI_RNGSEED env variable for RNG
use OAI_RNGSEED env variable everywhere. Hide normal table
initialization of Ziggurat generator from outside. Fix atoi() to use
stroul()
Hide normal table initialization of Ziggurat generator from outside to
force the usage of randominit() for RNG initialization. In this step,
remove the randominit() seed parameter and only rely on OAI_RNGSEED for
a consistent RNG initialization, as this parameter was used differently
("0" as fixed number or to force a random seed).
Now, only use OAI_RNGSEED env variable to force the usage of a fixed
seed.
Implementation of STOP exchange
This implements the STOP.request/indication for all 3 transport mechanisms, the
VNF will send the STOP.request to the PNF, indicating it will disconnect, and
await a STOP.indication from the PNF
The WLS VNF is reworked to be able to start before the PNF, by calling call
rte_eal_init and rte_dev_probe to determine if dpdk has been initialized
properly, before calling rte_eal_init in the intended process when it is
appropriate to do so
Note: after this commit, monolithic works but nFAPI operation is broken
and fixed in the next commit, to keep the changes small(er). All
simulators work.
This commit removes the use of msgDataTx's intermediate buffers for FAPI
messages and the call of the "Schedule response". The latter incurs an
additional copy of FAPI messages for the TX chain (for the RX chain, it
is and will remain there) which we can avoid.
Instead, it uses an NR_Sched_Rsp_t-typed variable sched_response to
store the results of the scheduler when called from tx_func(). Thus, the
scheduler remains unchanged (it gets a pointer to where to put FAPI
messages), but we don't call nr_schedule_response() to then copy FAPI
messages into the L1, but have them in a local variable sched_response.
sched_response on on the data segment, as it is big and would overflow
the stack; at the same time, this is ok because only one tx_func() runs
at a time.
Since we don't use allocate_sched_response() anymore, we don't need
deref_sched_response().
clear_slot_beamid() is moved to tx_func(), as it was called in
nr_schedule_response().
Since the "intermediate" NR_gNB_DLSCH_t structure groups both the
DL_tti_pdsch and TX_data.req structures, a pointer has been created to
point to pdsch_pdu. This affects a number of simulators, as they have to
put some messages on the stack:
- nr_dlschsim: put the corresponding variable on the stack
- nr_pbchsim: a new array for the SSB PDUs has been introduced
Further, these changes are now necessary:
- nr_dlsim: there were variables "rel15" and "pdsch_pdu_rel15" that
point to the same PDSCH PDU. At least "rel15" would not exist, as the
corresponding pointer is now populated in phy_procedures_gNB_TX(), and
we therefore refer to the single PDSCH PDU variable with
"pdsch_pdu_rel15", but at the place where "rel15" used to be
initialized.
- nr_ulsim: use nr_save_ul_tti_req() to load PDUs into the RX chain
instead of nr_schedule_response(), which does not exist anymore.
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