The UE stores PDCCH search spaces from the network in NR_BWP_PDCCH_t
struct within NR_UE_MAC_INST_t. After storing, the pointers otherSI_SS,
ra_SS and paging_SS are updated to point to the stored SS. Multiple
pointers could point to the same stored SS struct depending on
configuration. Then when the UE wants to release the SS, the pointers
are used to free the stored SS using ASN_STRUCT_RESET(). If multiple
pointers point to the same SS, calling ASN_STRUCT_RESET() on all
pointers would lead to double free. So one needs to check for dangling
pointer before freeing.
Instead of using pointers and assigning them during configuration, we
use SS id for otherSI_SS, ra_SS and paging_SS to retrieve the pointers
whenever needed. When the UE wants to release the SS, we make them -1
indicating an invalid SS id.
Add Delay Mechanism for Initial MIB/SIB Transmission in gNB Scheduler
- Delay MIB/SIB in gNB until PRACH noise converges
- Remove the first PRACH random access attempt delay in NR UE
This commit introduces a delay mechanism for the first MIB/SIB transmission
in the gNB scheduler to allow PRACH noise estimate to converge stabilize
before first PRACH preamble reception.
Key changes:
- Added the `num_scheduled_prach_rx` variable to gNB_MAC_INST to keep track
of total number scheduled of PRACH receptions. Using uint64_t type to avoid
overflow.
- Updated the `gNB_dlsch_ulsch_scheduler` function to conditionally schedule
MIB/SIB transmissions if `num_scheduled_prach_rx` is at least 100.
The value comes from OAIs implementation of PRACH noise estimate.
NR UE: consider the ratio of PUSCH EPRE to DMRS EPRE when calculating PUSCH
DMRS power scaling
When calculating DMRS scaling ratio, we should consider PUSCH EPRE to DMRS
EPRE according to TS 38.214 Table 6.2.2-1.
Close#929
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>
Extend F1 Handover test
do 1 more handover in the same test to verify robustness
- This MR keeps a simple ping after the second handover since there are
still issues due to scheduling starting too early, that is as soon as
the UE context is added. This leads to retransmissions that could
eventually lead to a test failure. The issue will be fixed in a future
MR.
add check on connected DU to verify successful handover
- a new telnet function gets in input the UE ID and returns the ID of
the connected DU
wait some time after deploying DU to mimic time for measurements
Optimization for unused symbols in NR UE
After processing TX frequency domain data skip IFFT call for symbols
that aren't used, the time domain buffer is memset instead.
Biggest benefit is when UE does not transmit PUSCH, or PUSCH is using <
14 symbols
FHI72: Management plane support
At the moment, tested with Benetel 550 and 650 RUs FW v1.2.2
- support for multiple RUs
- RPCs implemented: <connect>, <subscribe>, <get>, <supervision-watchdog-reset>,
<edit-config>, <validate>, <commit>, <disconnect>
- read PTP sync status from operational datastore xml
- get vendor name, and for xran store RU MAC, MTU and IQ bitwidth and PRACH
offset, and transfer this info
- store interface name, low-level-tx/rx-endpoint names, tx/rx-carrier names,...,
from operational datastore xml
- add reference gNB/DU config files with M-plane support
- update FHI readme
- Increase the maximum logging line for print done through
log_output_memory().
The reason is that we hit this line length when printing some machine
generated configuration (XML) through the M-plane. Increase to make
more of it visible.
- To limit the impact, only increase this locally in function
log_output_memory(), and statically assert that it will never be
larger than 64 kB.
In other places, we use the old limit.
- Move the definition MAX_LOG_TOTAL to log.c, because it's only used
there.
Shared memory realtime radio simulation
Realtime and near-realtime RFSimulator alternative without channel modelling.
The purpose of this library is to allow realtime simulation of gNB and nrUE.
The library is loaded using --device.name vrtsim. The server side (gNB) should
also configure --vrtsim.role server and --vrtsim.timescale according to
requirements.
Limitations:
- Only 1UE-to-1gNB connection supported
Future work:
- Telnet API
This implements a server-client bidirectional time domain IQ channel via
shared memory.
The server creates the channel and should be aware of the client
receiver configuration (num rx/tx antennas).
Server shall be the time source and should call shm_iq_channel_produce_samples
at regular intervals
Add support for ARM build pipeline
Modify the existing python code to be able to build images where the
image tag can be prepended with a prefix, here arm_. This is preparatory
work to create the ARM build image pipeline, and reuse the existing
internal registry on porcepix to have x86 and ARM images coexist.
Fix various bugs in the build system to allow to build on a system with
as many cores as gracehopper.
Also, fix two programs (usim, nvram) to work correctly under ARM.
Various libraries in this commit use the log headers (that is the
direct dependency). The log headers in turn include the T headers
(transitive dependency). Building on gracehopper with its many cores
triggers the build of these libraries before T headers have been
generated.
To resolve this and force the generation of T headers before building
the libraries, correctly express their dependency on the log headers,
which in turn ensures that T headers have been generated.
Depending on log_headers is preferrable because it is really the headers
that we depend on. Using instead e.g., utils, would trigger build of
source files, that we don't need for these libraries. This commit is
part of a larger cleanup that I have that is not merged yet. Follow-up
work will generalize this in the repo, and ensure that every(!) library
builds.
We have to add CONFIG_LIB, as the log module has a direct dependency
onto the configuration module (it uses it). I am not sure why this was
not relevant before.
If "utc_time" is selected, log lines are prepended with the UTC time,
formatted as YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss.ssssss UTC.
The documentation has been updated. For other time methods, additional
description of what they show has been added.
francescomani