[E2 agent] E2AP README update and OAI-FlexRIC CI pipeline improvements
- E2AP README - add OSC nearRT-RIC section; update with proper FlexRIC
links, and explanations on prerequisites, as well as for xApps
- OAI-FlexRIC CI - use separate containers for xApps
- add reference files for CU-UP/CU-CP
- add logging for KPM NSSAI condition
Instead of running xApps from oai-flexric container,
create dedicated xApp containers.
In addition, modify the flexric.conf: DB_PATH doesn't exist;
DB_DIR is the correct name.
Following a power cycle of the CI machines in the NSA-B200 setup, the gNB
machine encountered a networking issue. Although packets were observed leaving
and returning to the host of gNB, they failed to reach the container.
Debugging steps taken:
- upgraded the gNB machine
- reinstalled Docker
- reviewed and verified IP rules and routing settings
Setting the container to use host network mode resolved the issue.
Update CN5G images tags to the latest release in all CI pipelines
This MR is updating the tags of the CN5G docker images to the latest
release v2.1.9, for all CI pipelines.
CI: Replacing Devkit server with a Grace Hopper in Aerial pipeline
Switch servers on the Aerial pipeline from Gigabyte (AMD) to Grace
Hopper (ARM), and make the necessary changes:
- Update XML, YAML, and gnb.conf
- Change the argument passed to the L1 in aerial_l1_entrypoint.sh to be
compatible with the GH
- Update the Aerial setup in TESTBench.md and Aerial_FAPI_Split_Tutorial.md docs
- Decrease the tested throughput due to an issue with the RU. Will open
another MR to increase it once the problem is fixed.
NR UE: add support for continuous frequency offset compensation (in particular NTN LEO Doppler)
- move function add_noise() to file
openair1/SIMULATION/TOOLS/phase_noise.c
- refactor (co)sinus calculation out of phase_noise() into get_sin_cos()
in nr_common.c
- NR UE: continuously estimate the frequency offset using PBCH DMRS
- NR UE: add command line parameter --initial-fo to specify known
initial frequency offset
- NR UE: add support for continuous DL frequency offset compensation
--cont-fo-comp
- NR UE: add support for continuous UL frequency offset
pre-compensation. Depending on the main source of frequency offset,
pre-compensate the UL frequency offset (FO) accordingly. Therefore
modify the flag --cont-fo-comp to accept an integer value, where
* 1 specifies, that the main FO contribution comes from the accuracy of the local oscillator (LO)
* 2 specifies, that the main FO contribution comes from Doppler shift
- NR UE: add PI controller to continuous frequency offset compensation
- rfsimulator: enable and correct NTN LEO doppler simulation
- use SIMD to speed up nr_fo_compensation()
- Extend NTN LEO example in RUNMODEM.md to include continuous Doppler
compensation
- NR UE: in nr_adjust_synch_ue() extend the peak search to +/- cyclic
prefix size, esp. for LEO NTN scenarios the timing drifts during
initial sync, which is mostly compensated with
--ntn-initial-time-drift. But there might be a residual time offset,
and by extending the peak search window we make this more tolerant.
- NR UE: remove unused nr_slot_tx_offset, it is unused since commit
f3e60a14
- NR UE: remove now unnecessary local variable
update_ntn_system_information, directly use
UE->ntn_config_message->update instead
- Update the L1 (cuBB) version in the docker-compose.yaml
- Change the argument for the L1 config file (cuphycontroller.yaml) in the aerial_l1_entrypoint.sh
Temporarily deactivate DRB integrity protection in SABOX-B200 E1 testcase
to avoid CI failure due to low measured throughput. Our investigation
suggests that the low throughput is likely due to limitation of the UE
(Quectel RM500Q), which appears to restrict the maximum data rate when
integrity protection is enabled. This limitation is not observed with
Quectel RM520N.
The healthcheck interval sets when the first health check occurs after the
container starts. Increasing the healthcheck interval helps avoid marking
the container as "healthy" during the initialization phase of PNF. In
particular, USRP initialization of PNF service may take longer, and deployment
failures can occur even after the 10 seconds interval. Extending the healtcheck
interval provides more time for the service before assessing container health.
- use Ubuntu image, instead of RHEL image - gNB fails with "Illegal
instruction" during RA, when running with RHEL image
- init DPDK in VA mode
- increase number of cores Tpool
Refactor core network handling in CI, harmonize code
Prior to change set, there is a highly heterogeneous situation for core
network management in CI code: some log collection is done from groovy
files (when it could be done in python, which is easier for local
development), there are multiple commands to start a CN from XML files,
the code for starting a CN is always different (no one unified way to
start "any" CN), Ping/Iperf require some support in ci_infra.yaml, ...
To help with the above, refactor the handling of core networks in the CI
code as follows:
- define all CNs in ci_infra.yaml (basically how to deploy, undeploy,
collect logs, and on which node)
- make one Python class that reads from ci_infra.yaml and that allows to
start/stop previously defined CNs (and add unit tests...)
- make one XML command for start/stop of CNs, leveraging above class
- leverage the CNs defined in ci_infra.yaml consistently in
Ping()/Iperf()
- delete old code
Furthermore, the following supporting changes/bugfixes are done:
- repair Iperf2_Unidir() and add unit test
- fix a number of invalid escape sequence errors (there are some
remaining, which I will do soon)
- various bug fixes
- remove unused XML steps
- call scripts for magma MME-based deployment of OAI 5GC in
ci_infra.yaml
- implement the existing python code through scripts (which does the same)
- save the cql file in the repo, which was previously downloaded every
time
- use for porcepix-cn4g and nano-cn4g (un)deployment, ping, perf, in XML
files
Added 3 way F1 handover test with data exchange in the F1 pipeline.
The major change is that the UE is acting as a server in the handover
scenarion, so it needs to comply with the changes in !3280.
fix NTN LEO scenarios
- gNB: add support for NTN parameter ta-CommonDrift-r17
- NR UE: fix application of NTN TA information
- NR UE: add command line parameter ntn-initial-time-drift to compensate
time drift during initial sync
- NR UE: fix writeTimestamp inconsistencies
- NR UE: add MAC state UE_RECEIVING_SIB ensuring to start RA only after
successfully receiving SIBs
- rfsimulator: update earth radius for LEO simulation to match UE
position in ue.conf file
- update conf files for NTN LEO scenario
- update description how to run NTN scenarios in RUNMODEM.md
- fix: ta-Common is a round-trip-time, not a one-way delay
- NR UE: simplify calculation of next_tx_slot_and_frame by moving up
assignment of duration_rx_to_tx
- cellbarredNTN indicates notbarred in SIB1 if NTN access is available
- Removed b66 NTN and enabled B254 NTN conf file in CI
- NR UE: RRC layer now explicitly tells MAC layer when the RA procedure
can be started
- move NTN LEO config to band 254 and update doc/RUNMODEM.md
Closes#901
Switching to IOVA VA mode in the FHI7.2 pipeline reduces the required
capabilities for the Docker container. This change allows the removal
of the SYS_ADMIN capability.
SIB19 utilization on UE
Following SIB19 initialization and scheduling on gNB (!2899 - merged)
and Receive SIB19 on nrUE (!2920 - merged), this merge request aims to
introduce the actual use of the SIB19 provided parameters by gNB in UE.
Changes needed for utilization include: initialization of position
coordinates parameters for UE (which are needed to calculate propagation
delay between UE and SAT), propagation delay calculations and timing
advance adjusts. Moreover, this change removes the now unused arguments
for ntn_koffset, ntn_ta_common and ntn_ta_commondrift
/opt/oai-gnb/bin/nr-softmodem -O /opt/oai-gnb/etc/gnb.conf --sa --log_config.global_log_options level,nocolor,time --rfsimulator.options chanmod --telnetsrv --telnetsrv.listenaddr 192.168.71.150 --telnetsrv.shrmod ci
=================================================================
==7==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: odr-violation (0x7fce78b85be0):
[1] size=4 'log_mem_write_side' /oai-ran/common/utils/LOG/log.c:78:14
[2] size=4 'log_mem_write_side' /oai-ran/common/utils/LOG/log.c:78:14
These globals were registered at these points:
[1]:
\#0 0x7fce7b691658 in __asan_register_globals ../../../../src/libsanitizer/asan/asan_globals.cpp:341
\#1 0x7fce7bd0c47d in call_init elf/dl-init.c:70
[2]:
\#0 0x7fce7b691658 in __asan_register_globals ../../../../src/libsanitizer/asan/asan_globals.cpp:341
\#1 0x7fce7a5e2eba in call_init ../csu/libc-start.c:145
\#2 0x7fce7a5e2eba in __libc_start_main_impl ../csu/libc-start.c:379
==7==HINT: if you don't care about these errors you may set ASAN_OPTIONS=detect_odr_violation=0
SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: odr-violation: global 'log_mem_write_side' at /oai-ran/common/utils/LOG/log.c:78:14
==7==ABORTING
[INFO tini (1)] Spawned child process '/opt/oai-gnb/bin/entrypoint.sh' with pid '7'
[INFO tini (1)] Main child exited normally (with status '1')
* trigger re-establshemnt on DU: reset RLC counters on DRB 1
for OAI UE, since SRB 1 does not work for lack of periodic
measurements reports
* how is the re-establishment triggered?
* a transmission on DRB 1 occurs
* detection of a mismatch of RLC counters at the UE side
* max number of RLC retransmissions reached
* RLF detection
* verify re-establishment on CU: we ping the core from the UE; this
sends packets on DRB, and because the sequence number mismatches, will
trigger a reestablishment. We accept in the ping that a couple of
packets might be lost; after ping is over, reestablishment must be
done as well (else the ping will already fail).
Set SA mode as default
- Set standalone (SA) mode as the default.
- Adjust commands in Docker Compose files by removing --sa flags and
adding --nsa flags where applicable.
- Add a function to verify that only one mode is being used at a time.
- Update all relevant documentation.
Robert Schmidt