RRC Version is a required IE. Hence, implement the encoder and decoder
for this message. At the DU and CU, read the RRC Version we use and fill
the corresponding field.
Co-authored-by: Robert Schmidt <robert.schmidt@openairinterface.org>
binding the local address for SCTP is pointless, because we don't really
care through which interface SCTP traffic goes. Actually, we even might
want to set the DU remote_n_addr and the the local_n_addr to addresses
in different networks, because we might want to have GTP traffic go
through a different interface than SCTP, as done in the CI test for E1.
remove several unused files
remove mem_block_t that is never used in a different way than a simple heap buffer
move up IP address type and remove duplications of the same struct declaration
- Implement: Extend the F1 encoding and decoding with Qos
- Implement: E1 decoding for QoS
- Fix: Modify the UE_MODIFICATION_REQUEST_MSG towards DU to contain QoS info based on E1AP context response
- Fix: Modify the E1AP and F1AP message structures
- Fill the Qos configuration to send to MAC
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.
Previous to this commit, the CU creates an F1 instance and initializes
GTP after a successful connection establishment, and tears the F1
instance down after the DU disconnects. This does not work when trying
to connect multiple DUs, or have them reconnect, as e.g., GTP
re-initialization fails (socket already bound).
This commit makes the CU F1 instance creation and GTP init at CU task
init (only once), and also frees the F1 instance only after the CU task
exits, which is at termination of the application, typically.
The RRC container is to be handled by the msg handler in
mac_rrc_dl_handler.c. Therefore, don't forward the RRC message, but copy
it into the message so the handler can take the action.
- store the assoc ID of a UE at the RRC
- if F1 receives an SCTP shutdown, it removes the endpoint
- F1 will also send an "F1 Lost Connection" message to the RRC
- it is not yet possible to reconnect a DU after it had already been
connected at the CU, since the CU F1AP task will try to rebind GTP,
which fails
This branch series implements the usage of the F1 Setup Request
internally at the gNB, even if CU and DU run in the same process. Until
now, the F1 Setup Request contained struct fields to pass IP
configuration to the F1AP module; this information is not necessary in
monolithic, nor should it be relevant when passing the information in
F1 Setup Request.
Therefore, this commit moves all IP connection-related information out
of the F1 Setup Request and into a separate structure instead. In order
to give the F1AP module the necessary connection information, the
DU_REGISTER_REQ message is introduced that combines the F1 Setup Request
and IP configuration, such that the F1AP module can setup the SCTP
connection and then send the F1 Setup Request message.
In a later commit, there will be a callback for F1 Setup Request at MAC
to simply register the DU at the CU. The monolithic callback will simply
forward the F1 Setup Request The F1AP callback will look up the IP
configuration and create DU_REGISTER_REQ message containing IP
configuration and F1 Setup Request, which is then handled by the F1AP
module. To this end, a separate function in gnb_config.c allows to read
IP information from configuration.
