Ideally, we should load the yang models from the RU operational datastore, but the issues are following:
1) the yang models order is not good - dependancy models have to be loaded first
2) earlier O-RAN yang versions (e.g. v4) is not properly defined (i.e. optional parameters should not be included by default)
Added support in both cases, loading from RU with <get-schema> RPC, and loading statically from "radio/fhi_72/mplane/yang/models" folder.
Add a function pullx32 to pull x amount of bytes into uint32_t
Change the unpacking to pull only the needed bytes, and skip over the padding, when not Aerial
Change SRS.indication dumping function to also print the report TLV contents
Change SRS.indication unitary test to fill the last 4 byte block of the report TLV according to the length, with padding
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
- cmake version 3.12 defines libxml2 module; the default path is
/usr/share/cmake-3.<sub-version>/Modules/FindLibXml2.cmake
- OAI requires minimum cmake version 3.16
- RU IP address - to connect to RUs via netconf
- DU MAC address - for setting up the CU-planes on RU; not used in xran
- VLAN tag (*) - for setting up the CU-planes on RU; not used in xran
- DU keypair - for authentication when connecting to RU(s)
The parameters that RU-controller shall retreive from RU list of
capabilities:
- MTU
- compression
- RU MAC address
- PRACH offset (**)
(*) VLAN tag is not used in xran but an option is given in fh_config struct.
In my opinion, it is not a very suitable place, as it is needed for VFs.
Therefore, I moved it in the initialization part for M-plane purposes.
(**) PRACH offset shall be >= max(Ntx,Nrx), as per O-RAN CUS specification:
"The O-DU may decide to use same eAxC ID value to address endpoints on different O-RUs,
but eAxC ID values assigned to one O-RU must be unique within the O-RU’s endpoints of same direction."
=> however, LITEON supports flexible assignment of PRACH eAxC IDs, so
we made a workaround in the xran library to support PRACH eAxC IDs same
as PUSCH eAxC IDs.
According to 38.331 , cell specific K-OFFSET provided in SIB19 is provided in number of slots as per 15Khz SCS
Koffset before being applied, needs to be updated to the slots according to the configured subcarrier spacing.
These two functions use the EPC class to potentially fill in
EPC/5GC-related information, or start a packet tracer (tshark). The only
pipeline that uses these functions is RAN-gNB-N300-Timing-Phytest-LDPC,
which does not use a core network. This functionality is not used, and
can therefore be removed.
Add a possibility to use an "infrastructure YAML file" to configure both
ends of the iperf2 call through a file.
Fix bugs in Iperf2: at least on my machine, iperf2 start time is logged
at 0.00 not 0.0, so update the regex to match both. Do not overwrite
results if the matched regex (otherwise, the result might be None at the
end) and suppress server output.
Add a unit test to test that this function actually works (on my
machine, with iperf v2.2.1), as well as a unit test for analysis.
Fix for wrong NSA init at UE
This error is shown in the UE logs as following
[RLC] Activated srb0 for UE 0
[RLC] SRB0 already exists for UE 0, do nothing
- This addition is based on past tests, iperf3 UDP throughput was 520Mbps DL and 40Mbps UL.
- Throughput degrades when using OAI L1 with tags beyond `2024.w30`.
- This RU is being CI tested only in the Aerial pipeline, not with OAI L1.
- The document will be updated once the issue is identified and fixed.
The above is necessary to not compile as many gNB dependencies into the
UE. RLC only uses GTP, which was satisfied by L2_NR, but that's not
necessary. However, only that change results in
/usr/bin/ld: openair2/E2AP/RAN_FUNCTION/libe2_ran_func_cuup.a(ran_func_rc.c.o): in function `get_list_for_report_style':
openair2/E2AP/RAN_FUNCTION/O-RAN/ran_func_rc.c:596:(.text+0xbe7): undefined reference to `cp_e2sm_rc_event_trigger'
/usr/bin/ld: openair2/E2AP/RAN_FUNCTION/O-RAN/ran_func_rc.c:596:(.text+0xc5b): undefined reference to `cp_e2sm_rc_event_trigger'
/usr/bin/ld: openair2/E2AP/RAN_FUNCTION/O-RAN/ran_func_rc.c:596:(.text+0xd3b): undefined reference to `cp_e2sm_rc_event_trigger'
/usr/bin/ld: openair2/E2AP/RAN_FUNCTION/O-RAN/ran_func_rc.c:596:(.text+0xd9d): undefined reference to `cp_e2sm_rc_event_trigger'
/usr/bin/ld: openair2/E2AP/RAN_FUNCTION/O-RAN/ran_func_rc.c:596:(.text+0xded): undefined reference to `cp_e2sm_rc_event_trigger'
/usr/bin/ld: openair2/E2AP/RAN_FUNCTION/libe2_ran_func_cuup.a(ran_func_rc.c.o):openair2/E2AP/RAN_FUNCTION/O-RAN/ran_func_rc.c:596: more undefined references to `cp_e2sm_rc_event_trigger' follow
/usr/bin/ld: openair2/E2AP/RAN_FUNCTION/libe2_ran_func_cuup.a(ran_func_rc_subs.c.o): in function `remove_rc_subs_data':
openair2/E2AP/RAN_FUNCTION/O-RAN/ran_func_rc_subs.c:60:(.text+0xbe): undefined reference to `find_if'
/usr/bin/ld: openair2/E2AP/RAN_FUNCTION/O-RAN/ran_func_rc_subs.c:62:(.text+0xca): undefined reference to `free_e2sm_rc_event_trigger'
nr-cuup previously satisfied these dependencies by depending on L2_NR
which links in e2_ran_func_du_cucp_cuup. However, the nr-cuup E2 RAN
functions are in e2_ran_func_cuup. In the latter, the file rc_data_ie.c
was missing (for cp_e2sm_rc_event_trigger), which in turn needs
e2sm_rc_ir_obj. Finally, find_if comes through alg.
Co-authored-by: Robert Schmidt <robert.schmidt@openairinterface.org>
Teodora