Multiple DUs host cells, whose cell ID cannot match (to identify them
uniquely). Hence, don't check for equality with CU, because otherwise,
we can never connect multiple DUs.
An assoc_id of 0 is used to mark UEs whose DU is "offline" (not
connected). In this patch, if a DU disconnects, we go through all UEs
and set their assoc_id to 0 if they belong to a UE that just went
offline.
This code printed BW masks (what is this) and number of MIMO layers. It
was dependent on the current DU, and only showed the information for the
current DU config (SCS, band). On DU disconnect, it leads to segfaults
to this dependency, and IMO is not useful in itself (it could rather be
printed when receiving the UE capabilities, for all bands etc.).
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.
- Set the correct QoS flow ID to associate a correct QoS flow to the
bearer: the UE would misassociate otherwise
- Set the DRB as the default: the handler applies bool with true==1, so
use bool value
Introduce a --no-itti-threads command line option to disable threading
in ITTI, and call message handlers in the current thread. This is being
introduced in order to increase repeatability when testing the nrUE with
the IQPlayer. Without this feature, runs with the IQPlayer will end up
differently, depending on the timing of ITTI threads, mostly when
sending messages to RRC and NAS.
Before this commit, the DMRS_UplinkConfig was stored in a separate
DMRS-related structure, although it is always referenced in the
PUSCHConfig of the current UL BWP.
Through certain code paths (e.g., retransmission), it could happen that
an old DMRS_UplinkConfig was accessed that was freed (through new
CellGroupConfig).
In this commit, we always look up the DMRS_UplinkConfig in the current
PUSCH config, which should always be up to date.
Until this commit, the SIB1's PDCCH_configCommon was set (via a pointer,
i.e., an indirection) to the one of the ServingCellConfigCommon (SCC).
Afterwards, the SIB1 code further populated this PDCCH configCommon,
indirectly populating the one of the the SCC, on which code later
depends.
Not only did this create possibilities for double-frees (since freeing
the memory of SIB1, then SCC would free the PDCCH configcommon twice),
but also it makes it harder to track where certain structures are
populated. Hence, this commit solves both issues:
- The SCC is correctly populated on initialization of the SCC
- The SIB1 makes a deep copy of the SCC' PDCCH configCommon
This resolves the two issues above.
This commit introduces the capability to handle multiple CU-UPs. It uses
a RB tree and puts the CU-UPs into the tree. Upon the connection, it
associates UEs to CU-UPs in a round-robin fashion.
Robert Schmidt