This feature shall allow in future to simulate an arbitratry number of UEs connected to an other arbitrary number of cells.
Therefore each RF-frontend (also called RU) needs to be configured for one specific cell.
In case of handover of a UE from one cell to another cell, it needs to switch RUs accordingly (TODO).
There has to be a 1-to-1 mapping between RUs and cells.
Each UE will be assigned to one of the defined cells.
Initially all UEs are assigned to cell 0.
The global variable rx_gain_off was always 0.0, as it was not even modified by the NR UE command line parameter --ue-rxgain-off.
That command line parameter modified only a parameter in the struct nrUE_params_t, which was not used at all and is removed in this commit, too.
Also, the global variable rx_gain_off was just added to rx_total_gain_dB and subtracted from it again in nr_rf_card_config_gain().
So we simplify that function slightly, too.
Integration `2026.w04`
* !3787 CI: disable aerial x86 build pipeline
* !3820 Integrate F1AP messages required for NRPPa
* !3789 fix A3 event configuration
* !3861 add a csv T tracer
* !3669 NR UE: add neighboring cell measurements and measurement report of event A3
* !3866 nr-softmodem: ensure RU is ready before L1 init in NFAPI PNF mode
* !3402 Test FDM PRACH in CI
* !3852 Cleanup nr_slot_fep_ul
* !3782 Improvements to support CSET0 multiplexing pattern 3 for FR2
* !3862 Check for PDSCH overlapping CORESET during RA
* !3430 NR gNB handling TCI state indication for beam switching
* !3872 Fix compilation issues with vrtsim taps client
* !3687 Standardize Documentation Formatting and Navigation for MkDocs
Closes#705
See merge request oai/openairinterface5g!3867
Standardize Documentation Formatting and Navigation for MkDocs
This merge request improves and organizes the documentation to align with MkDocs
requirements. The following guidelines have been applied:
Guidelines Followed
Fix Broken Links and Paths
- Updated all links with proper paths to ensure correct rendering in MkDocs.
Correct Headings
- Removed multiple H1 headings (#).
- Subheadings use H2–H6 (## to ######) for consistent structure.
Proper URL Formatting
- All URLs now follow standard Markdown syntax,
e.g., [Example](https://www.example.com).
Proper Syntax
- Tables, lists, and code blocks use standard Markdown formatting to ensure
correct rendering.
Remove HTML Formatting
- Removed unnecessary inline HTML styling from documents, retaining only the
content.
Notes and Warnings
- Converted notes and warnings into blockquote syntax (>).
This ensures the documentation is properly structured, consistent, and
MkDocs-friendly.
- Include functions/file_names in backticks for readability
- Include the images directly inside the document (rather than plain image file name)
- Give relevant spacing if required
- Remove multiple single top-level (# H1) headings per file
- Use (# H2 and ###### H6) sub-headings for consistency
- Remove any trailing # in the headings
- This ensures proper table of contents rendering in MkDocs.
- Also removed RUN_NR_multiple_BWPs.md as it is moved to MAC usage
- bold current status for clarity and add spacing for better readability
- Wrap processes in the test setup block inside code blocks as they were rendered as GitLab issues
- Remove extra spacing in the test setup block
- Give a line in between bullet points to reflect bullet points correctly
- Split long statement into bullet points for readability
- Format the document for proper rendering
- Fix table formatting
- Use standard TOC syntax in 5GNAS
- The parser was incorrectly interpreting `</` as the start of an HTML closing tag, leading to a crash in mkdocs
- Replace with HTML entity to ensure it is treated as a plain text.
NR gNB handling TCI state indication for beam switching
This MR implements the procedure to send in DLSCH MAC-CE for TCI state
indication to UE
- if new beam is reported via SSB RSRP, gNB allocates MAC-CE with TCI
indication
- DLSCH is scheduled to be transmitted with priority
- a timer is started when receiving ACK according to the delay mandated
by standard (8.10.3 of 38.133)
- at timer expiry the gNB switches beam
Check for PDSCH overlapping CORESET during RA
CORESET 0 is configured in the configuration file by
'initialDLBWPcontrolResourceSetZero' and PDSCH TDA list is configured based on
the current BWP size.
It may happen that the user configures a 2 symbol CORESET 0 for a BWP >= 48 PRBs
(which is a valid 3GPP configuration) but in function 'nr_rrc_config_dl_tda'
this scenario is not taken in account causing an overlap between PDSCH and PDCCH
symbols during RA.
This leads to very unreliable Msg2 and Msg4 decoding at the UE, but from time to
time it succeeds, which becomes hard to identify this issue.
closes#705
Fix two issues regarding vrtsims taps client implementation:
- Incorrect #define used to enable taps socket handling
- flatbuffers package name changing between ubuntu versions
Cleanup nr_slot_fep_ul
Rename nr_slot_fep_ul to nr_symbol_fep_ul to relfect its function
Simplify logic so that the function does not require RU context and
the implementation is not dependent on the implementation of RU buffer
management.
This makes the function easier to understand and moves the responsibility
to set the correct buffer offset on the caller.
nr-softmodem: ensure RU is ready before L1 init in NFAPI PNF mode
PROBLEM: In PNF mode, L1 is started from nfapi_pnf.c without verifying RU
readiness. The only gate is config_sync_var, but nr_softmodem.c sets this before
the RU (e.g., FHI-72) is actually started. As a result, START_REQUEST can
trigger L1 init while the RU is not yet ready -- this is an issue when using
FHI72 with DPDK BBDEV, where a pre-mature L1 init will crash the entire program
as DPDK BBDEV depends on xRAN's DPDK EAL. Note that this issue is more like a
"race" condition, so it may not always manifest, and happens at random.
FIX: Perform RU readiness checks before setting config_sync_var in NFAPI PNF mode.
This aligns PNF behavior with other modes and prevents L1 from starting before the
RU is operational.
SSB position in burst is set to 2 so only SSB index 1 is transmitted.
prach_msg1_FDM is set to 1 so there are two occasions per time slot.
All the UE connecting to gNB will receive SSB index 1 and trigger PRACH
in the second FDM prach occasion.
FHI 7.2 does not have a field for the number of RACH Occasions.
It seems this needs to be manually configured, and M plane has field
num-prach-re to set the number of frequency domain PRACH occasions.
Rename nr_slot_fep_ul to nr_symbol_fep_ul to relfect its function
Simplify logic so that the function does not require RU context and
the implementation is not dependent on the implementation of RU buffer management.
This makes the function easier to understand and moves the responsibility
to set the correct buffer offset on the caller.
PROBLEM: In PNF mode, L1 is started from nfapi_pnf.c without verifying RU
readiness. The only gate is config_sync_var, but nr_softmodem.c sets this before
the RU (e.g., FHI-72) is actually started. As a result, START_REQUEST can
trigger L1 init while the RU is not yet ready -- this is an issue when using
FHI72 with DPDK BBDEV, where a pre-mature L1 init will crash the entire program
as DPDK BBDEV depends on xRAN's DPDK EAL.
FIX: Perform RU readiness checks before setting config_sync_var in NFAPI PNF mode.
This aligns PNF behavior with other modes and prevents L1 from starting before the
RU is operational.
NR UE: add neighboring cell measurements and measurement report of event A3
This is a rework of MR !2385 (closed), the goal is to add neighboring cell
measurements and measurement report of event A3 for NR UE.
This MR was tested with:
- 3rd-party gNB
- 2 OAI-gNB-DUs
The neighboring cell measurements and measurement report of event A3 for OAI-UE
are working as expected.
Thomas Schlichter