Improvements to the FHI for enabling further use cases
These changes to the FHI were primarily thought to enable the integration of
the intel ACC ( !3344 ) in parallel of the FHI.
I preferred to make a separate MR because I believe this topic is orthogonal
enough to be handled separately and because I wanted to bring even further
improvements.
The improvements that it actually brings are:
- Enable compiling and running xran F release with DPDK 21+
- Enable including a BBDEV device in addition of the ethernet device for the
FHI when performing EAL init, which is necessary for using the intel ACC
with the FHI.
- Fix an issue in usage of pkgconfig in xran E and F release. This enables to
reliably build xran with the version of DPDK requested to pkgconfig while
before this fix xran was always selecting the headers installed in /usr/local.
Get xran stats in the trx_oran_get_stats function
and use trx_oran_get_stats upon stopping and ending RF.
Co-authored-by: Romain Beurdouche <romain.beurdouche@eurecom.fr>
continuously update SIB19 information for rfsim NTN LEO scenarios
Contains mainly these changes:
- gNB: add function nr_update_sib19() allowing to update SIB19
information
- rfsimulator: update SIB19 contents every frame for LEO channel
simulations
- NR UE: improve initial timing advance calculation from SIB19
Before, we only considered ta_Common_r17 and the SAT position from SIB19
to compute the initial timing advance value. This is good enough if the
satellite does not move too fast (e.g. GEO satellite).
Now we also consider ta_CommonDrift_r17, ta_CommonDriftVariant_r17 and
the SAT velocity together with the epoch time from SIB19. This improves
the accuracy of the initial TA computation, esp. for LEO satellite
scenarios.
Update/refine gNB MAC stats, update L1
Only applicable with -q option.
Print a number of statistics, e.g., rx_ulsch_sdu to track UL MAC stats
timing. Remove unused time_meas_t definitions, and fix the name for the
total gNB scheduler time.
Print the RU stats in nrL1_stats.log, as some are already there, and do
not "pollute" the periodic logs when -q is enabled.
I used this to see why there are sometimes late slots with Aerial. I
used the above stats to get a general overview. This additional patch
shows that at least in RFsim, the RLC indication in rx ulsch sdu can
take up to 20us on my machine. Given that we can have multiple PDUs in
UL (10?), this can amount to a sizeable amount of time. While this is
for another MR, I thought the cleanup would be nice to have.
Do not pollute periodic output, and rather print those into
nrL1_stats.log. A number of them are already there anyway, so transfer
the rest. Note: ru->ifdevice.tx_fhaul is omitted, as we don't have any
IF5 split in 5G.
The implementation is limited to epoch times that are not more than 5.12 seconds in the future (allowed are up to 10.24 seconds)
and ntn-UlSyncValidityDuration < 5.12 seconds (allowed are up to 90 seconds).
To fix this limitation, the hyper frame number HFN has to be introduced at the OAI UE!
Before, we only considered ta_Common_r17 and the SAT position from SIB19 to compute the initial timing advance value.
This is good enough if the satellite does not move too fast (e.g. GEO satellite).
Now we also consider ta_CommonDrift_r17 and the SAT velocity together with the epoch time from SIB19.
This improves the accuracy of the initial TA computation, esp. for LEO satellite scenarios.
During reestablishment the UE goes back to not synchronized state.
While the synchronizatin is running, we trash frames using the function readFrame().
And when we successfully synchronize, we skip samples to align with the start of the frame using syncInFrame().
In rfsimulator mode, both of these functions send dummy data using the function dummyWrite().
Unfortunately, the writeTimestamp provided to that function was always assuming a duration from RX to TX of NR_UE_CAPABILITY_SLOT_RX_TO_TX.
But in NTN mode, this value is changed when receiving SIB19.
Therefore we have to consider this changed value instead of the static one.
Using the USIM interface in the MAC is non-sensical (violates layer
separation). Add header include in nr-softmodem.c, which previously came
through nr_mac_gNB.h -> usim_interface.h.
The primary motivation here is to remove a VLA, as in the parent
commits. Closer inspection revealed that (1) it is only used by the LTE
UE, and (2) it only logs some data which we likely don't need. So I
simply removed this function.
Fix data race in NR UE MSG3 scheduling
Fixed a data race between DL processing of RAR and UL scheduler, which might
result in dropping MSG3.
It was possible that the UL scheduler for the UL slot which RAR indicates as
MSG3 slot was already run by the time the RAR was decoded.
Therefore when DCI for RAR is decoded, assume worst case and halt UL scheduler
for next slot until RAR is decoded solving the data race. This also in turn
halts all later scheduling due to sequential nature of the UL scheduler calls.
Closes#962
imscope updates
- Add CSV export button to imscope
- Add extra cache for IQ data in imscope record thread so that UE time domain
data can be kept until PDSCH is decoded.
- Add metadata to UE time domain samples scope
- Add UE pdsch pre-compensation IQ and PDSCH channel estimates
Fixed a data race between DL processing of RAR and UL scheduler, which
might result in dropping MSG3.
It was possible that the UL scheduler for the UL slot which RAR
indicates as MSG3 slot was already run by the time the RAR was decoded.
Therefore when DCI for RAR is decoded, assume worst case and halt the
earliest corresponding UL scheduler call until RAR is decoded solving
the data race. This also in turn halts all later scheduling due to
sequential nature of the UL scheduler calls.
Due to different processing requirements on different CPUs it might
be beneficial to enable the users to set the number of UL/DL actors.
Allow disabling UL/DL actor frameworks and processing inline or
setting the number of DL/UL threads with --num-ul-actors/num-dl-actors
This was tested to work with 0 UL/DL actors with rfsim.
In phy-test and do-ra modes, we will trigger a UE context creation after
F1 Setup (because the DU is ready), in a later commit. However, before
this commit, E1 is started after the gnb_app (which triggers F1 Setup).
E1 starts an (integrated) CU-UP; if the E1 Setup arrives after the F1
setup (which creates a UE context), then the E1 setup handler will drop
the newly created RRC context for a do-ra/phy-test mode.
Avoid/minimize this by starting E1 first, so that E1 setup is done
before F1 Setup is completed (this does not make sure the problem does
not happen, but lowers the risk of the above problem).
Fix for NR UE DLSCH decoding barrier in case of no feedback
In !3291 NTN CI RFsim test fails with the UE being stuck. After some
investigation, this seems to be caused by the scenario where there is no
feedback for DLSCH. In that case there is no need to wait for DLSCH
being completed before generating feedback (there is no feedback).
Issue 947 and compilation improvements
This MR started with a small commit (03c7f151) to close#947. Little did
I know that I would be taken in a long journey through OAI compilation
hell.
Pass a "type" of RLC operational mode, from which split-type/gNB/UE
decision is derived.
Co-authored-by: Robert Schmidt <robert.schmidt@openairinterface.org>
fix NTN LEO scenario
NR UE: in nr_slot_fep() perform FO compensation in local tmp_dft_in
array instead of global rxdata array.
This avoids problems if nr_slot_fep() is called more than once for an
OFDM symbol.
Add Delay Mechanism for Initial MIB/SIB Transmission in gNB Scheduler
- Delay MIB/SIB in gNB until PRACH noise converges
- Remove the first PRACH random access attempt delay in NR UE
Disable the PRACH workaround in NR UE. With the MIB/SIB delay
implemented on the gNB there is no longer a need to delay first
NR UE random access attempt.
Cleanup and refactor initial gNB configuration
This is follow-up on !3048 (merged). Major changes in this MR:
- Add config functions to reduce redundant code repeated in multiple places in the file
- Add macros to reduce redundant code in gNB configuration
- Refactor RCconfig_NR_NG
- Cleanup obsolete and commented out code
- Refactor includes in executables/nr-gnb.c
- Introduce platform type plmn_id_t for consistency across the stack: F1AP, NGAP can now use the same struct type
- And other minor formatting
This commit refactors the TUN interface management by moving its creation
and configuration from the PDCP layer to the SDAP layer for UE.
Key changes include:
- Introduced `tun_generate_ue_ifname` and `tun_destroy` functions for better
TUN interface lifecycle management.
- Added support for creating and destroying UE-specific TUN interfaces in SDAP.
- Refactored `nr_pdcp_module_init` to remove TUN-related logic and moved it
to SDAP.
- Updated NAS and SDAP layers to handle PDU session-specific TUN interface
creation and configuration.
- Enhanced SDAP entity management to include TUN socket handling and thread
lifecycle.
- Updated NAS message handling to initialize default PDU session TUN
interfaces in NOS1 mode.
- Use a single SDAP thread function for gNB and UE
- Allow noS1 mode also in SA on gNB
These changes improve modularity by isolating TUN interface management within
the SDAP layer, aligning with the 3GPP architecture, and simplifying the PDCP
layer.
Co-Authored-By: Robert Schmidt <robert.schmidt@openairinterface.org>
Jaroslava Fiedlerova