Replace the FD <-> buffer_t hashtable with epoll_event_t mapping.
This simplifies the code, reduces the probability of memory leaks and removes a
possible data race on the hashtable during rfsimulator shutdown.
1. Closes#884 - increase the XRAN_MAX_FRAGMENT from 4 to 6 (sufficient for MTU 1500 with compression 8b)
2. Add new firmware version that supports jumbo frames
3. Update the config file to align with the new Liteon unit in our lab - center frequency, jumbo frames, compression and RU MAC address,
as well as the max DL MIMO layers.
The fronthaul library ships with BFP compression for AVX512 enabled targets.
This commit adds BFP compression for Arm targets by using the ArmRAL library.
Update the xran E release patch to work for Arm targets in addition to x86 targets.
Co-authored-by: Yi-Hung Chang <Yi-Hung.Chang@eurecom.fr>
Co-authored-by: brobert <brobert@valiha.com>
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
- if RU(s) are not well configured, disconnect immediately and stop the DU
- if all RUs are well configured, proceed with waiting until ready. The RU is
ready when the carriers are activated. Either the RU already has preconfigured
carriers (previous M-plane client configured), or the DU has to wait until receives
the notifications.
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.
- 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.
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 shm_radio. The server side (gNB) should also
configure --shm_radio.role server and --shm_radio.timescale <timescale> according to requirements.
Limitations:
- Only 1UE-to-1gNB connection supported
Future work:
- Channel modelling
- Telnet API
- Histogram of the TX time budget
Change to bool for clarity. The log message would sometimes only show up
at the end, which is misleading; use the logging module, which
harmonizes log statements and should make this appear immediately.
We still do not handle RUs with MTUs of 1500 properly in F release;
therefore, for the close future, we cannot remove support for E release.
Also, it "promises" this for January, which is in the past already.
Update to keep the warning logical.
Use `rfsimu_channel_ue1`, `rfsimu_channel_ue2`, etc. if you want to
use different channel models for each client. The client connection
order determines its channel model name.
Enable/disable workaround based on a new option "hanging-workaround".
This addresses an issue where the workaround will trigger even if there
is no risk of a permanent lockup of the system.
Added new command line option to channelmod: noise_power_dBFS. This options
allows the user to configure noise power in dBFS added instead of the per-channel
value.
This makes it so noise is not accumulated per channel reaching higher than expected
values.
The dBFS unit allows easy configuration. The gNB by default uses -36 dBFS setting.
To reach 3dB SNR one should set the noise_power_dBFS value to -39.
To configure using command line use --channelmod.noise_power_dBFS -50. Using this
setting the gNB and nrUE connect without issue.
FHI72: remove polling, fix memory leak
- FHI72 used polling to track the next slot. This is not necessary, a
simple queue does the job and allows to save one core that was
previously at 100%
- Remove a workaround to avoid a memory leak (fixes#812); allows to
also run RFsim/USRP/otehr radios when compiling for FHI72
fix NTN LEO scenarios
- gNB: add support for NTN parameter ta-CommonDrift-r17
- NR UE: fix application of NTN TA information
- NR UE: add command line parameter ntn-initial-time-drift to compensate
time drift during initial sync
- NR UE: fix writeTimestamp inconsistencies
- NR UE: add MAC state UE_RECEIVING_SIB ensuring to start RA only after
successfully receiving SIBs
- rfsimulator: update earth radius for LEO simulation to match UE
position in ue.conf file
- update conf files for NTN LEO scenario
- update description how to run NTN scenarios in RUNMODEM.md
- fix: ta-Common is a round-trip-time, not a one-way delay
- NR UE: simplify calculation of next_tx_slot_and_frame by moving up
assignment of duration_rx_to_tx
- cellbarredNTN indicates notbarred in SIB1 if NTN access is available
- Removed b66 NTN and enabled B254 NTN conf file in CI
- NR UE: RRC layer now explicitly tells MAC layer when the RA procedure
can be started
- move NTN LEO config to band 254 and update doc/RUNMODEM.md
Closes#901
Raymond Knopp