- remove hardcoded values
- adapt gNB RRC code
- adapt gNB MAC code
- adapt physical simulators, where we put the hardcoded values
that were everywhere else before; if there is a need for those
simulators to get configurable values, more work is needed
(but it's doubtful that it is needed)
A number of radio-related RRC parameters, e.g., CellGroupConfig,
"originate" at the DU and are sent to the CU for forwarding to the UE
only. Similarly, there are additional parameters, e.g., RLC-BearerConfig
(part of CellGroupConfig), that originate at the DU.
Hence, the DU decides about these parameters, depending on the MAC state
and capabilities. To clarify this, move the existing
openair2/RRC/NR/nr_rrc_config.{c,h} => openair2/LAYER2/NR_MAC_gNB/nr_radio_config.{c,h}
So that developers know that while those are RRC parameters, they
originate at the DU.
In other words, the CU/RRC is not supposed to use any of these functions
in the RRC. Correspondingly, includes of this file have been cleaned up
(and when they are not necessary at the MAC as well).
Improvements for LDPC encoding
AVX512 modifications for LDPC encoding: interleaving, ZC384 BG1, output
formatting for encoder, segmentation (memcpy instead of loop). some
improvement in TX for aarch64 in same places where AVX512 support was
added. Also, rate matching and interleaving are done on bytes containing
8 segments and reformatting of the output is done at the end of segment
processing instead of after ldpc encoding.
This improves the overall performance of the NR DL transmitter in gNB
See the merge request description for numbers.
When using T2 virtual functions, it is important to properly stop DPDK and free the device.
Otherwise the virtual functions may be blocked and a restart of the admin application is necessary.
Up to now, SIGINT was shutting down the PHY simulators without freeing the device.
This commit adds a signal handler to handle SIGINT in a way that allow to properly free the device.
This feature is first added to the PHY simulators that use the T2 which are `nr_ulsim`, `nr_dlsim`, `nr_ulschsim` and `nr_dlschsim`.
fix(nrLDPC_decoder): fix numIter increment
The logs of ./nr_ulsim -n100 -m19 -s12 -S12 -z2 -L4 were showing that sometimes
the decoding of one segment was failing while the CRC check succeeded. This was
happening because the iteration counter numIter was not properly managed so that
when the last iteration was successful to decode the segment still numIter at
the exit was equal to numMaxIter plus 1 so that decoding was considered to have
failed. In other words the last iteration if it occured was always wasted.
This commit offers to solve this problem by simply moving the iteration counter
increment at the end of the iteration loop while remaining careful at fixing the
tests relying on this counter.
Post-Scriptum:
After a first review, we decided to make the counter more standard from a C code
perspective. The counter now counts from 0 to numMaxIter minus 1. If it reaches
numMaxIter, it means that decoding was unsuccessful.
The idea is to make LDPC iteration accounting more standard from a C coding perspective by making two changes:
1. Now the iteration counter starts at 0 for the first iteration and goes up to max_ldpc_iterations - 1 for the last iteration.
If it is equal to max_ldpc_iterations, it means that decoding failed.
2. A chain of useless returns in the UE DLSCH decoding call chain was removed.
E1AP enc/dec lib improvements
This MR is including some fixes and improvements for the E1AP library,
focusing mostly on Bearer Context Management:
- struct reorganization: split setup and modification request messages
into distinct structures, ensuring compliance with 3GPP TS 38.463
specifications
- add encoding/decoding sub-functions for different IEs
- improvements to Bearer Context Management: Implemented various
improvements to the E1 Bearer Context Setup Response and Request,
including the adoption of encoding/decoding sub-functions for
different IEs
- use lib functions whenever need (e.g. cp_bearer_context_setup_request
in cucp_cuup_e1ap.c)
- handle optional struct members as pointers
- updated copy/equality check utility functions
EDIT: The MR is also including the changes from !3222 (closed):
> While testing E1 with security enabled for DRBs, it was found that
> data traffic was not functional.
>
> The problem was that security settings were modified in the PDCP
> reestablishment happening when receiving Bearer Context Modification
> Request.
>
> So some restructuring was done.
>
> The actual fix is in 18176297, the others are for support. Basically
> we introduce a boolean to check if the security settings are present in
> Bearer Context Modification Request and we change PDCP security settings
> only if they are.
>
> (Note that in OAI CU security settings are not sent in Bearer Context
> Modification Request, so we could also remove all this, but we need to
> be compatible with other cu-up and/or cu-cp.)
Bearer context setup request and modification request messages
differ in various IEs according to 9.2.2 of 3GPP TS 38.463, e.g.
the Bearer context setup request does not contain a list of
DRBs to modify and does not contain an UP TL configuration.
Thus, the goal of this commit is to split the setup request message
and the modification request into two different structs:
* adopt e1ap_bearer_mod_req_t where necessary (e.g. fill_e1_bearer_modif)
Also, reorganized existing struct members according to specs:
* remove irrelevant struct members from the setup request
* group members from the same IEs into structs
* set optional struct members IEs as pointers
* add and adopt enc/dec/cp/eq lib functions for single IEs
* add UP_TL_information_t struct with TEID and TL address info and adopt in stack
* use int instead of long for count types
* update the relevant copy/equality check utility functions
Extra:
* add a function to handle Security Information in RRC in the process
* add create_up_tl_info and adopt in unit tests
Move UL_INFO structure allocation local to a rx slot processing
UL_INFO is allocated a gNB, so require mutex and obscur information
passing function to function. Instead, make a local UL_INFO per slot,
removing the mutex and making the code easier to understand.
Use UL_INFO on the stack, to simplify the code. move in the same struct
the associated rach, pdu, crc, srs arrays that where pointed from
directly in gNB structure Keep in nfapi the existing logic that make
malloc for theses rach, pdu, crc, srs array lists
Pass only relevant fields, where appropriate.
Co-authored-by: Robert Schmidt <robert.schmidt@openairinterface.org>
The parent commit cleans up and groups oai_exit in one place,
nr-softmodem-common.h. Therefore, this 5G file is included in the 4G
defs_common.h (at least it's mostly 4G), which is not nice. Instead,
define oai_exit also in 4G softmodem-common.h, and include this in
defs_common.h. Remove the cyclic inclusion of defs_common.h in
softmodem-common.h, and resolve all subsequent errors around unknown
types and extern definition mismatches.
Refactor of includes in gNB/UE for improved header management
This merge request implements changes suggested by the Include What You Use
(IWYU) open source tool to streamline the project’s header file usage.
The adjustments ensure that each file includes only the necessary headers for
the symbols it uses, making the code more efficient and maintainable.
Unnecessary includes have been removed, and missing headers have been added
where required. This improves modularity and reduces inter-dependencies between
files, helping to avoid future build issues caused by unused or missing includes.
Each output has been manually reviewed.
Followed a similar approach as in !2953 (merged).
Affected folders/files:
- NR_MAC_gNB/main.c
- nr-softmodem.c
- unitary simulators: nr_dlsim, nr_ulsim, prachsim
- openair2/RRC/NR
- openair3/NGAP
- openair2/LAYER2/nr_pdcp
- openair2/SDAP/nr_sdap
The queue for finished jobs of PUSCH channel estimation is only used inside
nr_pusch_channel_estimation(). Since initialization is fast, it can be
declared on the stack in the function where it is used.
- add new data structures for antenna processing.
- create arrays that keep track of certain values (max_ch, noise_amp2, nest_count and delay) per each antenna. These values are processed in order to determine one final output.
- add time processing measurements for each antenna, and prints them in nr_ulsim.
- make num_antennas_per_thread configurable in nr_ulsim and the gNB config file.
Co-authored-by: Nada Bouknana <bouknana@eurecom.fr>
Co-authored-by: Brice Robert <brobert@valiha.com>
See getopt(3): returns int, so store it in an int variable.
I went through all occurrences, project-wide. All return values of
getopt() should be stored in ints now.
get_default_secondaryCellGroup() would "sanitize" the servingCellConfig,
i.e., remove BWP that are invalid. However, it is difficult to
understand (we can do sanitization once at the beginning) and reason
(why the servingCellConfig is modified in
get_default_secondaryCellGroup(), because all we want is a new
CellGroupConfig, without modifying other data structures).
Instead, do sanitization once after reading the configuration in
gnb_config.c. Also, modify physical simulators nr_dlsim and nr_ulsim to
apply this sanitization before a call to
get_default_secondaryCellGroup(), as the latter would have done the
sanitization.
Cedric Roux