RF emulator and improvements of the timers
RF emulator:
Add an RF library emulating a real device without the need of a real
device. This is thought to enable using phy-test without requiring a
radio device or channel simulation. The library synchronizes on the
real time clock, drops TX and generate noise on RX. Noise generation
can be disabled and the noise level configured.
Timers improvements:
- Fix standard deviation for merged timers
- Add display of ULSCH decoding timers
- Add decoding timer in AAL
Add a simple RF emulator library with no real RF.
It only synchronizes the gNB with the real time clock.
It is to be used for stress test or benchmarking in phy-test mode.
Realtime and near-realtime RFSimulator alternative without channel modelling.
The purpose of this library is to allow realtime simulation of gNB and nrUE.
The library is loaded using --device.name shm_radio. The server side (gNB) should also
configure --shm_radio.role server and --shm_radio.timescale <timescale> according to requirements.
Limitations:
- Only 1UE-to-1gNB connection supported
Future work:
- Channel modelling
- Telnet API
- Histogram of the TX time budget
- Add the O-RAN 7.2 FHI library, interfacing with OSC xRAN library (E
release)
- Add Findxran.cmake to detect the library and headers, including
version information
- Test for numa and DPDK presence
- Add patch for OSC xRAN to make interworking possible
- Add sample config files for LiteOn, Benetel, and VVDN units.
Documentation is provided in the next commit.
Co-authored-by: Raymond Knopp <raymond.knopp@eurecom.fr>
Co-authored-by: Cedric Roux <cedric.roux@eurecom.fr>
Co-authored-by: Manish Kumar Singh <manish1.kumar@amd.com>
Co-authored-by: thamizhselvan.k <thamizhselvan.k@vvdntech.in>
Co-authored-by: rajeshwari.p <rajeshwari.p@vvdntech.in>
Co-authored-by: Hongzhi Wang <hongzhi.wang@openairinterface.org>
Co-authored-by: Sofia Pison <Sofia.Pison@eurecom.fr>
- move following radios: AW2S, BladeRF, IRIS, LMSSDR, RFsimulator, USRP
- move following transports: Ethernet, benetel4g, benetel5g
- for each: create independent cmake variable to switch compilation
on/off, in order: OAI_AW2S, OAI_BLADERF, OAI_IRIS, OAI_LMSSDR,
OAI_SIMU, OAI_USRP, OAI_ETHERNET, OAI_BENETEL4G, OAI_BENETEL5G
- Remove RF_BOARD variable, allows to compile multiple boards at once
- where applicable: remove USERSPACE/LIB in path, i.e., move files up to
directories, as all are userspace libraries
Note that with the above, it is now mandatory to enable a radio
implementation before compiling it, e.g., for USRP:
./build_oai -w USRP
cmake .. -DOAI_USRP=ON && ninja oai_usrpdevif
Robert Schmidt