Ensure execution of processSlotTX in order in NR UE
Make sure that processSlotTX is executed in slot order.
There is a bug that causes decoding error when processSlotTX is executed
out of order. The root cause is not known at this point, but this change
avoids the bug altogether.
Add IQ file recording and IQ file viewer to ImScope
This changeset introduces the following changes to ImScope:
- Added the ability to record IQ data using the same mechanism as
ImScope.
- Added a new executable target imscope_iq_file_viewer for viewing IQ
files.
- Introduced a command line argument --imscope-record that enables data
recording mode.
- Refactored a lot of the scope code
Usage:
- To record IQ data, run a modem with --imscope-record flag. The
recording happens whenever a modem calls dumpScopeData, which
currently is done only in gNB on PUSCH DTX and PUSCH CRC NOK. There
is a limit of ~1GB of files written by the thread in a signle run to
avoid accidentally exhausting disk space. If a directory imscope-dump
is available the data will be recorded there in .imscope files.
Otherwise files are written to the directory the modem was run. This
is done so that the directory can be mapped in a docker container.
- To view recorded IQ files, use the new executable
imscope_iq_file_viewer. This can be done by running:
./imscope_iq_file_viewer <path_to_iq_file>
Replace <path_to_iq_file> with the path to the IQ file you want to view.
Dockerized development environment
This commit introduces a fully dockerized dev env you can start on any
machine that has docker without installing any direct OAI dependencies
on host.
This allows to migrate development environments between machines easily.
Several complementary scripts were added to enable smooth transition
between your docker environment and host environment. Your user and sudo
should work inside the environment.
In its current state, the environment can be used to compile
nr-softmodem with 7.2 FHI but it cannot run it due to missing
dependencies.
This commit introduces a fully dockerized dev env you can start on any
machine that has docker without installing any direct OAI dependencies
on host.
This allows to migrate development environments between machines easily. Several
complementary scripts were added to enable smooth transition between your docker
environment and host environment. Your user and sudo should work inside the
environment.
This avoids the issue of compare_exchange_weak always failing. The issue
was that `store()` is not equal to `exchange()`. `exchange` uses memory
copy while `store()` copies the value representation of the argument, which
is not always the same thing.
- Added event parameter for recording which is reflected in the filename
- Added event in the UE for DLSCH NACK
- Added program name to the filename for ease of identification
- Reworked spinlock to use atomics
This commit introduces the following changes to ImScope:
- Added the ability to record IQ data using the same mechanism as ImScope.
- Added a new executable target `imscope_iq_file_viewer` for viewing IQ files.
- Introduced a command line argument `--imscope-record` that enables data recording mode.
- Refactored a lot of the scope code
Usage:
- To record IQ data, run a modem with `--imscope-record` flag.
The recording happens whenever a modem calls dumpScopeData, which currently is
done only in gNB on PUSCH DTX and PUSCH CRC NOK.
There is a limit of ~1GB of files written by the thread in a signle run to avoid
accidentally exhausting disk space.
If a directory `imscope-dump` is available the data will be recorded there in .imscope
files. Otherwise files are written to the directory the modem was run. This is done so that
the directory can be mapped in a docker container.
- To view recorded IQ files, use the new executable `imscope_iq_file_viewer`. This can be done by running:
```
./imscope_iq_file_viewer <path_to_iq_file>
```
Replace `<path_to_iq_file>` with the path to the IQ file you want to view.
Integration: `2025.w04`
Closes#876, #896, #875, #893, and #878
See merge request oai/openairinterface5g!3226
* !3198 remove a set of compile options that don't work anyway
* !3171 Refactor SCTP Association Response Handling and E1 connection loss at CU-UP
* !3023 usrp constant and slow derive timestamp
* !3215 Remove unused code
* !3192 fix nr phy-test mode in ntn
* !3214 fix(nrLDPC_coding_t2): Miscellaneous fixes related to T2
* !3020 use ML receiver for 64 QAM UL-MIMO
* Demote error logs to debug for "PUCCH not processed"
* !3217 minor improvements in T hacks
* !3199 Add a small FAPI Hex parser utility
* !3209 Remove most of m64 type usage
* !3211 Avoid huge calloc by alloc'ing TBs independently
* !3212 F1AP IDs: Allow AddMod, fix concurrency bug
* !3152 E1 Setup enc/dec library and unit test
* !2999 Repair nFAPI in 5G
* !3210 FHI72: FDD support
* !3220 Improve RA logs
Improve RA logs
Modify existing LOG entries to include preamble index, timing advance and
estimated distance from the gNB. This makes mapping RA attempts to
physical/simulated UEs easier via sent/received preamble index or physical
distance from the gNB in scenarios with >1 UE.
FHI72: FDD support
- harmonize DL/UL PRB mapping in one get_xran_prb_map() function with support
of mixed slot and duplex mode
- do not assume TDD by default
Repair nFAPI in 5G
Add 5G nFAPI in OAI/Make it it work.
Many commits in this branch are basically bug fixes of things that don't work
properly, such as
- check for correct conditions (e.g. instance numbers in the RAN context)
- remove artificial limitation (e.g. only one PUCCH per TDD period in the PNF)
- improve performance (reduce big mallocs, make some static buffers such as a
global ring buffer for nFAPI messages in the PNF)
- fix bugs in nFAPI (e.g., increase maximum message size to ~64kB instead of
1500 bytes, because the latter is way too small for many TX_data.requests in
5G, and it will delay message arrival unduly)
- fix bugs in message enc/dec (e.g., handle FDD in config.request)
- adjust the L1 such that the condition "we run monolithic" is not necessery
(e.g., some message numbers in nFAPI struct where reset in MAC, instead of
L1, and this breaks when running the PNF)
There are instructions that explain how to set it up. Two CI tests have been
added, one with COTS UE and MIMO in DL+UL in TDD numerology 1 (30kHz), and a
second test with FDD mu=0 (15kHZ) in RFsimulator.
These were some old to-dos that have been addressed.
- test with COTS UE - 4x4 pipeline works good in DL, UL now also work
- test in RFsim
- make PNF status message
- make FDD in u0 work
This function packs P7 messages. At least RX_data.indication messages
might be much bigger than the global buffer that is used here. Allocate
the buffer on the stack, and make it bigger. Do not use the global
buffer, it's simply not necessary; increasing the global tx buffer size
might have negative effects elsewhere in the code.
That change might make the function reentrant. The mutex seems to only
guards the codec config. However, leave it to not introduce any
regressions as of now.
E1 Setup enc/dec library and unit test
This MR is adding a library for E1 Setup enc/dec functions:
- E1 CU-UP Setup Request
- E1 CU-UP Setup Response
- E1 Setup Failure
and relevant unit tests
F1AP IDs: Add update, fix concurrency bug
I suspect a concurrency bug: For instance, during reestablishment, the
CU needs to update the DU UE ID under which the UE is identified in the
DU. Previously, the CU would remove, then add the DU UE ID info. At the
same time, the PDCP thread might look up the information. This can lead
to asserts. Modify the code to do the update under (one) lock.
Also, refactor some code.
Similar to the parent commit, make the numerology in the VNF
configurable. Unlike for the PNF change, the VNF frame/slot info is in a
per-PNF connection structure to which the "oai_integration" code has no
access. So we need to hack the nfapi_vnf_p7_add_pnf() function signature
to take the numerology, to be able to save this on a per-PNF basis.
The fact that we store this on a per-PNF basis is not strictly required,
as the VNF cannot handle multiple numerologies as of now, either.
However, we might want to extend this in the future, so it seems prudent
to store this on a per-PNF basis, so that we could start handling
multiple numerologies at the L2 without the need to change the L1 or
nFAPI code itself.
Also, the numerology is not needed except for some code that deals with
timing over nFAPI. As of now, we don't use this code (nFAPI gets a
trigger every slot, as per the VNF request, see an earlier commit in
this series), but also here, let's not make the future more complicated
by storing the numerology for each PNF now (this could always be reverted).
For 4G, put numerology 0 (15kHZ SCS), which is the SCS that LTE uses.
Fill in the dynamically received numerology, and make the numerology at
the PNF configurable, following the changes in the parent commit.
The change for the reading is somewhat of a hack, because nFAPI, as of
now, does not really foresee to store the numerology, so we fill the
numerology during the start request, when the numerlogy has been
received in the config request, but at that time, the structure for the
time information (frame/slot) does not exist yet.
At both the PNF and the VNF, introduce a separate numerology field, and
pass the numerology when converting time information using macros from
nfapi_interface.h. The actually numerology is still hardcoded to 1 (as it
was before), but the follow-up commits will put a suitable numerology.
In both cases, but the numerology next to the frame/slot information.
Similar as the parent comment, remove time macros. In this particular
case, we can just pass the exact frame/slot information, instead of
squeezing it in a single integer.
The next commits will modify the time macros used in the 5G nFAPI code
to handle different numerologies. As a preparation, remove all the
usages of these macros where they really don't matter (e.g., don't
convert if we don't need to).
the L1 needs both a PDU (in TX_data.req) as well instructions for
the actual transmission (in DL_TTI.req) to encode a PDSCH message. In
nFAPI, it can happen that a DL_TTI.request message has been received
(configuring the PDSCH transmission), without the TX_data.request having
reached the PNF. The L1 assumes to have the PDU.
To avoid problems, ensure that only the pair of DL_TTI.req/TX_data.req
is delivered. Otherwise, drop either message.
Robert Schmidt