It might be desirable to run the UE without superuser rights. More
concretely, it might run without NET_ADMIN. In this case, various
corresponding operations on the TUN socket fd might fail. In this
commit,
- improve error reports to make them more clear
- do not automatically exit(1), but return from the function to ensure
continuity of the softmodem
The RTT for GEO satellites is more than 500 ms.
And as the TA update interval must be greater than the RTT, we increase it to 1 second instead of 100 ms.
Should also do no harm for terrestrial networks.
According to the RRC specification, cellSpecificKoffset is:
Scheduling offset used for the timing relationships that are modified for NTN (see TS 38.213 [13]).
The unit of the field K_offset is number of slots for a given subcarrier spacing of 15 kHz.
If the field is absent UE assumes value 0
This parameter `cellSpecificKoffset_r17` can be set in the gNB conf file, in the section `servingCellConfigCommon`
There is already a command line option called 'ue-scan-carrier' which
seemed to blindly look for SSB by changing the center frequency by
+/-100Hz if the previous attempt failed. This is probably copied from
LTE and is not suitable for NR. This commit uses this option to either
1. Perform initial sync on one GSCN if the SSB position if known
2. Or scan the all GSCN (if the SSB postion is unknown)
Also, the following is done for re-synchronization
1. Scan all GSCN when UE comes back from IDLE state
2. Scan one GSCN when UE does re-estabishment
Removed dependency of lte-softmodem.h in nr-softmodem.c.
CONFIG_HLP_UESCAN is declared also in lte-softmodem.h.
38.321 6.1.3.1 says: "The size of the RLC headers and MAC subheaders are
not considered in the buffer size computation" [for BSR]. However, prior
to this commit, we take the size signaled of the BSR and schedule the UE
with that amount of data, making it impossible for the UE to transmit
all its data at once (because it is the size signaled + headers).
In this commit, over-estimate the buffer status size. As we cannot know
the exact number and size of headers, we simply use "BSR size + n", as
done in function overestim_bsr_index().
It can happen that in the current DL slot, we cannot send an allocation
for Msg3 in a later UL slot. Up to this commit, MAC printed a warning.
However, this is not really a warning, as it will likely work in the
next or a later slot. So demote this to debug.
A to-be-added UE's RA is added through nr_mac_add_test_ue() (the name is
misleading, it is not a "test UE") through its CellGroupConfig. Using
the process_CellGroupConfig() is unfortunate, because it is not really
clear what part of the CellGroupConfig gets evaluated (it is certainly
not all). Move the code for adding a new RA directly in the user-add
function, and refactor this one.
Introduce new LC configuration "priority", as specified in 38.321, and
use to sort LCs by priority. We set the priority of an SRB according to
38.331 Section 9.2.1, and for a DRB to be the minimum priority of the
QoS flows associated to this DRB.
Introduce new functions to add/release LCs without needing to go through
the intermediate CellGroupConfig. This harmonizes LC handling at the "DU
handler" to keep it consistent with RLC bearer handling.
These functions allow to group LC configuration handling, and we can
remove functions for setting NSSAIs and QoS by handling in one central
place (while adding LCs).
nr_mac_add_test_ue() is used by simulators and also in NSA mode to add a
new UE. Ideally, these users should also call the ue context setup
request handler to add a UE context; for the moment, respect the passed
list of LCs to add. Similarly, for do-ra, we require a dedicated
function to still parse the CellGroupConfig, so we keep that part of
functionality.
On reestablishment, since we do not process the CellGroupConfig from the
old UE, we need to add LCs for the new UE based on the onces from old
UE.
Use a common structure nr_lc_config_t to group LC configuration for one
logical channel. Use seq_arr for simple lookup, adding, removing of
elements without manual indexing logic.
This commit retains the previous logic of adding/releasing LCs through
the process_CellGroupConfig(), although we know while building the
CellGroupConfig if we add/release LCs. The next commit fixes this.
- addition of control of deltaMCS if enabled in configuration file.
- introduce separate parameter to disable 256QAM in UL
- put min_grant_prb configuration back in pf_ul() as default prb size.
This reverts commit 0d0e111135. It was
set to UE RX to TX time to 2 as it was deemed that the UE could sustain
this time. However, we noticed a degradation of performance, so reset
the RX to TX time to something higher to ensure proper performance.
Robert Schmidt