After the last commit, it is not possible to bind on separate interfaces
for F1-C and F1-U. In other words, it is for instance not possible to
have the F1-C on one subnet on one physical interface, and F1-U on
another subnet on another physical interface. This commit introduces a
second option MACRLCs.[0].local_n_address_f1u to allow to bind F1-U on
an alternative address; if it is not specified, the interface of F1-C is
reused.
The above only works for the DU; no corresponding option exists for the
CU. For the CU, use separate CU-CP and CU-UP.
Use it in the CI.
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.
Doing only 5 LDPC iterations by default leads to a poor reception
performance, and correspondingly many retransmissions. Increase to 8 as
the new default to improve user experience.
For 7.2 FH, some RUs do phase compensation, whereas for others, the DU
does it. In fact, this can be "negotiated" using the M plane. Since we
don't have the M plane yet, add a configuration option to set where
phase compensation is performed.
RRC Version is a required IE. Hence, implement the encoder and decoder
for this message. At the DU and CU, read the RRC Version we use and fill
the corresponding field.
Co-authored-by: Robert Schmidt <robert.schmidt@openairinterface.org>
In NSA, we don't have SIB1. However, the DU system information requires
both MIB and SIB1, but is itself optional. So, in NSA, don't fill the DU
system information.
remove several unused files
remove mem_block_t that is never used in a different way than a simple heap buffer
move up IP address type and remove duplications of the same struct declaration
The macrlc_has_f1 (static) variable was introduced to signal when we use
F1 in the configuration. It is superfluous: the node_type already passes
this information in a unique manner; hence, remove.
This commit introduces an additional (implicit) option that signals if
the E2 agent is to be activated or not. When reading the configuration,
we now check if all fields are set, and activate the E2 agent only if
this is the case. If not, we only print a warning and start the gNB
without the agent.
Note that previously, if not all fields are set correctly, the gNB
stopped.
To implement this behavior, it is necessary to change the defaults of
the RIC IP and the directory for SMs to a (non-NULL) default value.
Otherwise, the configuration system would not consider the field to be
set to the default, and wrongly assumes the field is set, even though it
is not; at least, this change is necessary to make config_isparamset()
return NULL if the configuration is not set.
3GPP has the concept of a gNB-CU-UP ID and a (separate) gNB ID (for gNB,
CU-CP). This commit introduces the gNB-CU-UP as a separate ID that has to be
set in the configuration file when running as a CU-UP. For the
CU/monolithic gNB, it is optional (but needs to be the same as the
gNB-ID if specified).
The CU-UP ID is necessary, as some entities, e.g., the e2 agent, need to
signal both IDs, e.g., to reconcile a CU-CP and (multiple) CU-UP(s)
belonging together.
3GPP has the concept of a gNB-DU ID and a (separate) gNB ID (for gNB,
CU). This commit introduces the gNB-DU as a separate ID that has to be
set in the configuration file. It is necessary, as some entities, e.g.,
the e2 agent, need to signal both IDs, e.g., to reconcile a CU and
(multiple) DU(s) belonging together.
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.
The E1AP Setup Request contained the network configuration (IP address,
ports) as well as the actual E1AP Setup Request application data
(Supported PLMNs, ...). This has the drawbacks that
- The E1AP Setup Request is stored to retrieve IP addresses in the E1AP
module, which is confusing as the Setup Request, per standard, has no IP
info
- The CU-CP received an E1 Setup Request for configuration during start
up, but it did not actually receive such Setup Request, but merely the
IP configuration to set up the socket
This commit splits the E1AP Setup Request into a "real" Setup Request
for application data, and creates a new type e1ap_net_config_t to group
all IP configuration data. Further, a new ITTI message type
E1AP_REGISTER_REQ is introduced to group both types. What happens is
- RCconfig_NR_CU_E1() reads both E1AP application-level data and IP
configuration, as previously
- The data is sent to the CU-CP. It discards the E1AP Setup Request
data, and only uses the network configuration to set up the socket
- The data is sent to the CU-UP. It uses the network configuration to
connect to the CU-CP, and then sends the E1AP Setup Request to the
CU-CP.
Currently, the CU-CP still stores the Setup Request locally, which will
be changed in the next commit to send it to the RRC.
The DRBLists inside E1AP message are for E-UTRAN. We don't support that
with our CU-CP/UP yet, so remove it to reduce ambiguity and complexity.
For the same reason, we remove the CN Support, which for us is always
"NR".
!SIB1 is not correctly filled! This commit does not work with COTS UEs!
The next commit fixes this.
- Move radio config (e.g., minRXTXTIME, SIB1 TDA, do_SRS, etc) down to
MAC.
- Some parameters in MAC are redundant: delete them.
- Remove call to nr_mac_config_scc() from RRC and simulators, the MAC
initialization routine calls it implicitly
Previously, filling of F1 Setup Request depended on reading the RRC;
hence, for timing reasons, we only initialized and sent the F1 Setup
Request once the MAC and RRC are ready.
After moving SCC, SCD, MIB, and SIB1 to MAC, the MAC does not depend on
an RRC being present anymore, and hence, the F1 Setup Request does
neither. In this commit, we read the F1 Setup Request after initializing
the MAC.
Robert Schmidt