Refactor DLSCH scheduler
Refactor the DLSCH post processor similarly to what has been done in
!3521 with the goal of saving an additional iteration through all UEs,
hopefully making the DLSCH scheduler faster.
It further includes changes to make working with and debugging multi-UE
operation easier:
- add some measurements in L1 (for total TX/RX time)
- a new option MACRLCs.[0].stats_max_ue to limit the number of UEs in
the periodic output (default: 8, 0=disable)
- avoid stack overflow in the MAC
- fix the writing of stats to nrMAC_stats.log and nrL1_stats.log when
the written output reduces by truncating the files
- avoid to schedule retransmission with 0 RBs.
The gNB will stop the periodical logging of UEs in MAC Info level after
a configurable number of UEs have been printed, by default 8.
Set it to 17 in some CI tests to ensure we still get all UEs for the
time being, as the CI might depend on this.
Refactor ULSCH scheduler towards more TDD pattern flexibility
Refactors ULSCH scheduler, notably to support "UL-heavy" TDD patterns,
e.g., DSUUU. Also allows to run TDD pattern2 with UL slots, which was a
limitation in the previous code.
Increase the number of aggregration level candidates. Since we have many
UEs with concurrent traffic in that pipeline, we should ensure that we
can allocate many DCIs to not waste resources (e.g., not all RBs used
because could not find DCIs for specific UEs).
Since the parent commit, the ra_ResponseWindow will be chosen
automatically. Correspondingly, remove most ra_ResponseWindow options
from configuration files in the repository.
One problem in some mu=1 configs is that the ra_ResponseWindow=4 (10
slots), which might be overly restrictive if the L1 slot ahead is
somewhat close to 10 (e.g., 6), in which case we might not be always
able to allocate Msg2 in time.
A notable exception here is gnb-vnf.sa.band66.u0.25prb.nfapi.conf, in
which we still provide it (1) since it uses a non-standard configuration
of a ra_ResponseWindow longer than 10ms (see also issue #916 for more
information) and (2) as an example.
* In LTE there is logic that checks the thread configurtion with the
getters `get_thread_parallel_conf()` and `get_thread_worker_conf()`
in NR these getters are not used, only setters, which have no impact
- Remove unused AmariUE config file, replace by new one - for PLMN 00102
- Change frequency of AW2S pipeline - Move center frequency by 40 MHz to avoid interferency with other setups
in the lab. Set center frequency to ~ 3450 MHz.
The original UL max MCS of 9 was chosen for performance reasons. In the
meantime, machines became faster, and the ULSCH decoding faster. Improve
UL max MCS to be 28 by default to use the complete range of possible
MCS.
- PRACH Configuration Index = 98 is not suSpported by the Amarisoft UE simulator, as a number of PRACH occasions within the PRACH slot is > 1
- for PRACH Configuration Index = 100, number of time-domain PRACH occasions within a PRACH slot is 1
We need to test security and integrity protection in the CI.
This commit activates ciphering+integrity protection for SRBs
and DRBs using nea2/nia2 for the amarisoft-ue + aw2s CI pipeline.
- IPERF3 option created in cls_oaicitest.py
- retrieval of CN amf and traffic-server IP address from pods
- modification of gNB config file (do_SRS set, max UL MCS increased), removal of unused config file
- change of AmariUE config file to support 2x2
- modification of xml file for aw2s pipeline - iperf test added
- new xml file for cleanup (terminate AmariUE, clean test server images) created
Robert Schmidt