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.
fix A3 event configuration
See commit message for more information.
As a reference, for comparison purpose, PCAPs and TXT files for various tests
done in develop and in this MR are available in the MR description.
Integrate F1AP messages required for NRPPa
This MR is one of the several MRs that will follow in the integration of NRPPa
protocol (!2437) required for positioning in 5G NR. We specifically introduce
encoding and decoding of several F1AP messages including unit tests for
verification in this MR.
The details of the F1AP messages introduced here can be seen below:
- POSITIONING INFORMATION REQUEST
- POSITIONING INFORMATION RESPONSE
- Supported optional field: SRS Configuration
- POSITIONING INFORMATION FAILURE
- POSITIONING INFORMATION UPDATE
- Supported optional field: SRS Configuration
- POSITIONING ACTIVATION REQUEST
- POSITIONING ACTIVATION RESPONSE
- POSITIONING ACTIVATION FAILURE
- POSITIONING DEACTIVATION
- TRP INFORMATION REQUEST
- TRP INFORMATION RESPONSE
- Supported : NR PCI, NG-RAN CGI, NR ARFCN, Geogarphical Coordinates
- TRP INFORMATION FAILURE
- POSITIONING MEASUREMENT REQUEST
- Supported optional field: SRS Configuration
- POSITIONING MEASUREMENT RESPONSE
- POSITIONING MEASUREMENT FAILURE
- POSITIONING MEASUREMENT REPORT
- POSITIONING MEASUREMENT ABORT
- POSITIONING MEASUREMENT FAILURE INDICATION
- POSITIONING MEASUREMENT UPDATE
- Supported optional field: SRS Configuration
The reference to these messages can be found in 3GPP 38.473 v16.21.0
CI: disable aerial x86 build pipeline
We use Aerial exclusively on ARM/gracehopper, so no need to build it on
x86. On this occasion, rename the "kind" (ID which images to build) to
x86 for clarity and align with the other "kinds" (build_cross_arm,
native_armv9, ...).
While testing the gNB with two hypotetical neighbors, some issues were found
with A3 event configuration.
The configuration of neighbors is:
neighbour_list = (
{
nr_cellid = 12345679L;
neighbour_cell_configuration = (
{
gNB_ID = 0xba0;
nr_cellid = 720898;
physical_cellId = 1;
absoluteFrequencySSB= 621312;
subcarrierSpacing = 1;
band = 78;
plmn = { mcc = 505; mnc = 01; mnc_length = 2 };
tracking_area_code = 1;
},
{
gNB_ID = 0xea0;
nr_cellid = 1345678L;
physical_cellId = 2;
absoluteFrequencySSB= 640000;
subcarrierSpacing = 1;
band = 78;
plmn = { mcc = 505; mnc = 01; mnc_length = 2 };
tracking_area_code = 1;
}
);
}
);
There were two problems.
The first problem is:
- when only default A3 event is configured, it is duplicated in the
RRC Reconfiguration Report Config To AddMod list with IDs 4 and 5
To test this case, the event configuration is:
nr_measurement_configuration = {
Periodical = {
enable = 1;
includeBeamMeasurements = 1;
maxNrofRS_IndexesToReport = 4;
};
A2 = {
enable = 1;
threshold = 60;
time_to_trigger = 1;
};
A3 = (
{
physCellId = -1;
offset = 15;
hysteresis = 2;
time_to_trigger = 3
}
);
};
The second problem is:
- when configuring an A3 event with an unknown physCellId, the gNB
does not include any A3 event in the RRC Reconfiguration Report
Config To AddMod list (which is correct), but configures some
meas ID with nonexistant Report Config IDs
To test this case, the event configuration is:
nr_measurement_configuration = {
Periodical = {
enable = 1;
includeBeamMeasurements = 1;
maxNrofRS_IndexesToReport = 4;
};
A2 = {
enable = 1;
threshold = 60;
time_to_trigger = 1;
};
A3 = (
{
physCellId = 10;
offset = 15;
hysteresis = 2;
time_to_trigger = 3
}
);
};
Reworking A3 event configuration as done in this commit solves both
issues.
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.
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.
Correct how the slot for SIB1 is computed in case of MUX pattern 2 and 3.
Renamed n_0 to slot for clarity. n_c was never used outside of the function, so
remove it where it is not used.
We use Aerial exclusively on ARM/gracehopper, so no need to build it on
x86. On this occasion, rename the "kind" (ID which images to build) to
x86 for clarity and align with the other "kinds" (build_cross_arm,
native_armv9, ...).
Reference: 3GPP 38.473 v16.21.0
Mandatory fields:
Transaction ID (supported)
LMF Measurement ID (supported)
RAN Measurement ID (supported)
Add F1AP positioning measurement failure indication message enc/dec + test
Reference: 3GPP 38.473 v16.21.0
Mandatory fields:
Transaction ID (supported)
LMF Measurement ID (supported)
RAN Measurement ID (supported)
Cause (supported)
Reference: 3GPP 38.473 v16.21.0
Mandatory fields:
Transaction ID (supported)
LMF Measurement ID (supported)
RAN Measurement ID (supported)
Positioning Measurement Result List (range: 1)
> Positioning Measurement Result List Item (range: 1..64)
>> Positioning Measurement Result (supported)
>> TRP ID (supported)
Reference: 3GPP 38.473 v16.21.0
Mandatory fields:
Transaction ID (supported)
LMF Measurement ID (supported)
RAN Measurement ID (supported)
Cause (supported)
Optional fields:
Criticality Diagnostics (not supported)
Reference: 3GPP 38.473 v16.21.0
Mandatory fields:
Transcation ID (supported)
LMF Measurement ID (supported)
RAN Measurement ID (supported)
Positioning Measurement Result List (range: 0..1)
> Positioning Measurement Result List Item (range: 1..64)
>> Positioning Measurement Result (supported)
>> TRP ID (supported)
Optional fields:
Criticality Diagnostics (not supported)
Reference: 3GPP 38.473 v16.21.0
Mandatory fields:
Transcation ID (supported)
TRP Information List (range : 1)
> TRP Information Item (range : 1..65535)
>> TRP Information (supported)
Further details of TRP Information:
TRP ID
TRP Information Type Response List (range : 1)
> TRP Information Type Response Item (range : 1..64)
>> CHOICE TRP Information Type Response Item
>>> NR PCI (madatory : supported)
>>> NG-RAN CGI (madatory : supported)
>>> NR ARFCN (madatory : supported)
>>> PRS Configuration (madatory : not supported)
>>> SSB Information (madatory : not supported)
>>> SFN Initialisation Time (madatory : not supported)
>>> Spatial Direction Information (madatory : not supported)
>>> Geographical Coordinates (madatory : supported)
For now, we only use Geographical Coordinates.
Optional fields:
Criticality Diagnostics (not supported)
Reference: 3GPP 38.473 v16.21.0
Mandatory fields:
Transcation ID (supported)
TRP list (range : 0..1)
> TRP list Item (range : 1..65535)
>> TRP ID (supported)
TRP Information Type List (range : 1)
> TRP Information Type Item (range : 1..64)
>> TRP Information Type Item (supported)
While implementing NRPPA-related F1AP messages, we remarked that
extension field "UL-AoA-ExtIEs" needs to be OPTIONAL (e.g., in NRPPA it
is optional in the OAI-compiled version), but it was not marked as such.
This later version 16.21.0 fixes this.
Integration: `2026.w03`
* !3818 Update threadCreate
* !3845 Update physim timing thresholds in gNB-N300-Timing-Phytest-LDPC
* !3849 Make gpd config utility global
* !3812 Fix reestablishment after handover
* !3826 Define speed of light
* !3799 Fix for threadpool abort function
* !3791 fix array lenght errors, k variable wrapping threshold. Make the code smaller and more efficient
* !3718 Introduce SRS physical simulator and improvements
* !3857 Fix bug "no AMF for UE"
* !3858 remove function decode_cellGroupConfig
* !3668 Support beam index for LiteON FR2 RU that needs per symbol section in CP packets
* !3844 CI: Remove testcase ids from XML files
* !3620 update multi-RU 7.2 documentation for DAS scenario
* !3788 Fix handover documentation and configuration files for event configuration
See merge request oai/openairinterface5g!3854
Jaroslava Fiedlerova