- this was necessary because as soon as the gNB starts, it tries detecting
the prach preambles and it mesaures the background noise. However, there is
a delay of several dozens of frames before it considers the preables as
detected.
- the solution at the UE consists in avoiding sending preamble as soon as the
UE syncs by introducing an offset, this keeps the power measurements low at
gNB side as long as the preamble detection counter is under threshold
This refactors the preprocessor. The new preprocessor implements the
same scheduling strategy (Modified Round-Robin: give resources according
to round-robin, then group) but should be fairer by changing every time
the RR start UE (i.e., 1st TTI UE 0 starts, 2nd TTI UE 1, etc) when the
UE number is not a divisor/multiple of the RBG size (and the last RBG is
often smaller). This also removes all unneeded code of the preprocessor
such as allocate(), positioning(), etc.
* do not check rlc_ind()
* Simplify retransmission part and remove nb_rb_available var
* Simplify new transmission code
* Simplify fill_DLSCH_dci(), avoid unnecessary copies
* fix: first check No. RBs, then check CCE alloc
Previously, the various rlc_*_ind() functions had a parameter to enable
the MAC to specify the max TB size that a subsequent call to the
corresponding rlc_*_req() (!) function would return. This patch removes
this parameter from the rlc_*_ind() functions and makes the parameter
working that is already in the rlc_*_req() functions.
store_dlsch_buffer() puts the RLC buffer status results in the
UE_TEMPLATE, which is per-CC. Since the DLSCH scheduler works per-CC,
too, we pass the right CC. However, this is not strictly necessary, as
we could do this once before every CC, and it might be updated.
UE_list_t is now used as a separate list. It can be e.g. used in the
scheduler to mark groups of users. The original UE_list_t is renamed to
UE_info_t to reflect that it is a container for information about UEs.
* Simplify store_dlsch_buffer()
* Simplify assign_rbs_required()
* Simplify dlsch_scheduler_pre_processor_partitioning()
* Simplify dlsch_scheduler_pre_processor_accounting() and dlsch_scheduler_pre_processor_accounting_allocate()
* Simplify allocation printing
The original functions used in the fairRR scheduler have been moved to
eNB_scheduler_fairRR
* Remove MIMO_mode_indicator: it is simply not used ATM
* Remove min_rb_unit as parameter: function auto-detects
* Remove commented code
* Remove slice sharing/multiplexing: it is broken
* Remove UE sorting, add UE with add_new_ue() in MAC
- UE sorting is useless overhead on every iteration, instead it should
be governed by a scheduling algorithm (e.g., RR or PF)
- The MAC keeps a UE list and automatically adds a UE
- UE_list empty, set head to -1
* Remove slice_positioning: the slicing functionality is broken
* Remove unused/untested code
When a header is changed, all including files need to be recompiled,
too. Thus, including a header needlessly all over the place drives
compile times up without any reason.
Francesco Mani