This assert and assumption is incorrect, according to 38.101-1 UE channel is defined only by the BWP size
and BWP size can be any value supported by the RRC parameters defining the BWP.
To determine the UE channel the smallest bandwidth supporting the BWP is selected. This is an assumption based
on references in the same document to UE channel bandwidth being equal to one of the values in set
{5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100}.
Also:
- calculated P_CMIN during BWP setup since the parameter doesn't depend on DCI.
- initiialize uniqCfg structure in test_nr_ue_power_procedures main function which enables LOG prints during tests
* the goal is to make the documentation more procedural and
descriptive and easier to understand
* added missing info in RLC-NR about reassembling of AM frames
SYS_NICE is a capability that allows a process to set thread affinity
and priority, among other things (see capabilities(7) for more info).
In this commit, add a function that allows to determine if the process
has this capability, and try to change the thread affinity and priority,
if requested. If the capability does not exist, the function will simply
not attempt to change the corresponding thread attributes.
To determine if the process has SYS_NICE, libcap can be used. However,
it might not be installed by default. To avoid requiring another
dependency, if we detect that libcap is not present, use a workaround by
try to set a real-time scheduling policy; if it's present, or can be
changed, we assume that the process has SYS_NICE (and clean up, if
relevant).
Simplify reading of capabilities
set_latency_target() attempts to set keep "low latency" by
- writing a specific latency to /dev/cpu_dma_latency
- setting manually the minimum CPU processor frequency to be the maximum
There is no functionality to undo this after stopping the softmodem(s),
and most users are probably not even aware that OAI does this. It is
generally preferable to set this beforehand using a governor or by
disabling sleep states (as outlined in the tutorial, and in a follow-up
commit in the performance tuning docs).
The previous mlockall() call, to lock memory to RAM, is retained in a
new function. There were additional mlockall() calls, which have been
replaced with lock_memory_to_ram(), where necessary.
Print a clear error if a config file does not exist (unclear previously,
when the user would get a confusing, unspecific, "file I/O error" on
line 0)
I tried to free the memory that had been allocated at that point, and
verified that using the address sanitizer. Nevertheless, the function
does too much, and is too complicated for refactoring.
Till this commit, the UE gets the position of SSB in frequency from
command line and does the syncronization by locating the SSB in time. It
does this by generating a PSS time signal during initialization with the
SSB offset given via command line. Then PSS detection is done by
correlation.
In this commit, the UE computes a list of GSCN in the current NR band
that falls within the current bandwidth for the set center frequency.
For each GSCN in the list, the UE starts a thread and performs the
following:
1. Generate PSS time signal with SSB offset for current GSCN.
2. Detect PSS, SSS and decode PBCH (this step remains the same).
After all threads finishes, the results are collected.
For now, only the first detected PBCH is used to proceed further. So
this PBCH is indicated to MAC and UE exits initial sync.
Future work: The cell search can be standalone feature where the UE
could scan for SSB in the entire NR band. This would require changing
radio's frequency on the fly as the UE's bandwidth would not cover an
entire NR band. The cell detection can futher be imporved by looking
for SIB1 for each decoded PBCH.
In a later commit, we will use find_if in L2. In the case of building
with E2 agent, we link e2_agent which comes with its own implementation
of find_if_arr(), which results in a name clash. Rename the OAI
implementation, as nothing uses this, anyway.
Add the option `--rfsimulator.prop_delay` to specify the simulated receive-path (gNB: UL, UE: DL) propagation delay in ms.
This option can be used e.g. to simulate a simple GEO satellite channel by specifying `--rfsimulator.prop_delay 238.74` to both, the gNB and the UE.
This is part of the work developed by Fraunhofer IIS within the ESA-funded project 5G-GOA (https://connectivity.esa.int/projects/5ggoa).
Jaroslava Fiedlerova