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.
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).
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>
This commit introduces the following changes to ImScope:
- Added the ability to record IQ data using the same mechanism as ImScope.
- Added a new executable target `imscope_iq_file_viewer` for viewing IQ files.
- Introduced a command line argument `--imscope-record` that enables data recording mode.
- Refactored a lot of the scope code
Usage:
- To record IQ data, run a modem with `--imscope-record` flag.
The recording happens whenever a modem calls dumpScopeData, which currently is
done only in gNB on PUSCH DTX and PUSCH CRC NOK.
There is a limit of ~1GB of files written by the thread in a signle run to avoid
accidentally exhausting disk space.
If a directory `imscope-dump` is available the data will be recorded there in .imscope
files. Otherwise files are written to the directory the modem was run. This is done so that
the directory can be mapped in a docker container.
- To view recorded IQ files, use the new executable `imscope_iq_file_viewer`. This can be done by running:
```
./imscope_iq_file_viewer <path_to_iq_file>
```
Replace `<path_to_iq_file>` with the path to the IQ file you want to view.
We are required to store multiple PUCCH (e.g., for multiple UEs).
However, nr_fill_pucch() automatically freed the previously active PUCCH
structure. Of course(!) this does not make sense.
However, the problem is that init_nr_transport() allocated only one
PUCCH structure. Also this does not make sense to me. The problem was
that slot_ahead was 0, which logically cannot happen in this function
(because slot_ahead is illogical, we must give the radio some time). The
reason is that it uses if_inst->sl_ahead, which, prior to this commit,
was not set.
The init_nr_transport() function is called normally from main() through
init_eNB_afterRU(). In this case, we initialize if_inst->sl_ahead to
what is set in main(). In the PNF case, however, we call
init_nr_transport() from the PNF thread, when receiving the start
request. In the main(), we wait for this to happen, before setting
if_inst->sl_ahead. Hence, initializing this variable (which we should
safely be able to do) before solves the problem.
Implements the re-start of the L1 after it has been stopped through
stop_L1(). It takes into account some changes, such as bandwidth, or
frequency, when restarting the L1. To this end, it also triggers a
gNB-DU configuration update message on each restart to inform the CU
about any changes in the DU. FDD has not been tested.
Refactor L1 stopping code into a function. The function is basically the
same as what we were doing at the end of main() of nr-softmodem.c.
This will be reused to support the "soft-restart" functionality in the
next commits.
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.
THere are four possibilities, for the three options (phy_test, do_ra,
nsa):
- None is set -> SA
- Only one is set of each -> corresponding mode
Introduce a function softmodem_verify_mode() to check for these.
* the goal of this function is to initialize and configure the RAN Context
* the goal of get_options is to get command line options
* this commit aims at making the implementation more consistent
* move initialization of RC.nb_nr_CC to this function
* cleanup redundant initializations of RC.nb_nr_macrlc_inst outside NRRCConfig
* cleanup redundant initization of RC.nb_nr_macrlc_inst from getter function (get_node_type)
* cleanup RC initialization in RCconfig_NR_L1
* removed redundant log lines (print number of instances in NRRCConfig only)
* do RC init after getting CL options and configuration
* get_node_type shall access configuration only, not RC context
* NRRCConfig shall be called only once: made it thread-safe
* nb_nr_inst represents the number of gNB instances and the number of RAN contexts
* it used also to count the number of RRC instances in the node
* it is set from config file in NRRCConfig, therefore redundant checks after
this function have been removed
* redundant global variable NB_gNB_INST, set after nb_nr_inst, was removed
* gNB and L1 init is done in init_gNB and RCconfig_NR_L1
* moved RCconfig_nr_prs out of create_gNB_tasks for consistency
* do RCconfig_nr_prs only for L1 instances
This commit removes many logs that just show memory addresses, indices,
etc., which, I presume, do not mean anything to the "average user" and
developers alike.
Currently, NR PDCP ticks are active only with monolithic gNB, triggered by the MAC scheduler in gNB_scheduler.c.
In F1 split mode, as there is no MAC, there’s no source to advance the NR PDCP timer via "nr_pdcp_wakeup_timer_thread()".
This commit introduces a dedicated thread for NR PDCP ticks in gNB-CU and CU-UP mode.
Without it, packet losses at the F1 uplink would cause indefinite buffering, as t-Reordering won't expire due to the lack of NR PDCP timer ticks.
A new phy scope based on ImGui and ImPlot. This scope uses a different concurrency model than previous
scopes.
The PHY thread writing the data first checks if the data is ready to be written. If its not, nothing is copied.
The GUI thread reads data if available and marks it ready to write. This makes sure that the PHY threads are not
busy copying data that would never be displayed.
Some of the scopes also have a freeze functionality that further limit the amount of data that needs to be copied
from PHY threads. If a scope is "frozen" it still allows the user to explore the data using plots zoom/pan functions
but doesn't cause PHY threads to perform extra writes on the displayed data.
A compile option was added to enable/disable the scope. Use cmake -DENABLE_IMSCOPE=ON to enable the scope.
Update CXX standard to 17; it is required by some libraries (e.g., dear imgui). The oldest gcc version in
use by a distribution supported is Ubuntu 20, which has gcc 9.4 with c++17 support.
Before this commit, the following will trigger a complete rebuild:
- create another git name (git checkout -b test)
- run cmake again manually (cmake ..)
- run ninja again
The top-level CMakeLists.txt uses add_definitions() to add git
information to all targets; if some git information changes, this will
mark all command lines as dirty, triggering the build.
There is an easy solution: instead of passing this information on the
command line, pass it in a header. This commit uses configure_file() to
generate a file oai_version.h in the build directory with the same
information. Various sources files, e.g., main executables, use this to
output the same information as before. It is then also not necessary to
use header guards, as cmake takes care to create this file.
If cmake is re-run, it will update the header, and trigger only files
including this header will be rebuilt (which can be shown with the above
stpes). The information passed is the same as before, and updates the
information when the old method would have updated it.
* In LTE there is logic that checks the thread configurtion with the
getters `get_thread_parallel_conf()` and `get_thread_worker_conf()`
in NR these getters are not used, only setters, which have no impact
* strdup is returning a malloced string which needs to be freed after use
> Direct leak of 90 byte(s) in 1 object(s) allocated from:
> 0 0x7ffff745b9a7 in __interceptor_strdup ../../../../src/libsanitizer/asan/asan_interceptors.cpp:454
> 1 0x5555591598a3 in main /executables/nr-softmodem.c:667
> 2 0x7ffff5e29d8f in __libc_start_call_main ../sysdeps/nptl/libc_start_call_main.h:58
Robert Schmidt