Previously, we only supported intra-frequency handovers, so the
measurements where only for intra-frequency, reusing the same
measurement object. Now that we would support inter-frequency handover,
also add multiple MeasObjects for each neighbor.
Add some helper functions that will be used by the MAC handler to fill
the right MeasGap configuration based on Measurement Configuration sent
by the CU, in the next commit.
Checks whether there are at least 4 bytes available to pull tag and length values.
On tlv_list unpack, if the size is sent as 0, immediately exit the function
Created a function nr_error_ind_cb for the VNF that takes a received ERROR.indication and shows some details regarding the reported error from the PNF, since up until now it was not handled and treated as an unknown message.
Proper error handling procedure not created, only shows that the error occurred.
Remove duplicated functions in fapi_vnf_p7.c, leaving only functions for messages that require usage of the secondaty data_buf for unpacking
Move vnf_info struct declaration to nfapi_vnf.h to be available in fapi_nvIPC.c
Add check to vnf_nr_handle_param_response for when phy_info is not found
The WLS VNF is in charge of Enqueueing the used blocks after usage for transport, this is done by keeping track of all blocks used, and calling WLS_Enqueue for all of them upon receiving a SLOT.indication
The common library exposes functions for the PNF to return the received blocks to the VNF for it to call WLS_Enqueue on them.
This is done in order to ensure the Blocks are returned after processing, also preventing the Dequeueing of blocks that are still being used, i.e. the internal value is not -1
All saved blocks are to be enqueued at the reception of a SLOT.indication by the VNF
Additionally, the definition of NFAPI_MAX_PACKED_MESSAGE_SIZE was moved to nfapi_interface.h and removed from the other headers, this is done to allow to set the maximum message size when using WLS by only changing the value in one place
Fixup fapi_nr_message_header_unpack call in nfapi_hex_parser
Integration: `2025.w28`
* !3517 CI: set interface name in UPF container for RFSim5G
* !3501 Fix automatic SSS detection logic
* !3503 DLSCH RB extraction: check DMRS bitmap only in DMRS symbols
* !3498 bugfix: UE AMBR is optional
* !3504 Improvements to the FHI for enabling further use cases
Closes#975
See merge request oai/openairinterface5g!3518
Improvements to the FHI for enabling further use cases
These changes to the FHI were primarily thought to enable the integration of
the intel ACC ( !3344 ) in parallel of the FHI.
I preferred to make a separate MR because I believe this topic is orthogonal
enough to be handled separately and because I wanted to bring even further
improvements.
The improvements that it actually brings are:
- Enable compiling and running xran F release with DPDK 21+
- Enable including a BBDEV device in addition of the ethernet device for the
FHI when performing EAL init, which is necessary for using the intel ACC
with the FHI.
- Fix an issue in usage of pkgconfig in xran E and F release. This enables to
reliably build xran with the version of DPDK requested to pkgconfig while
before this fix xran was always selecting the headers installed in /usr/local.
E release had the same issue of not using pkgconfig properly as F release.
This issue was fixed in F release when enabling its compatibility with DPDK 21+.
This commit brings this fix to E release.
In order to be usable in parallel of FHI 7.2, BBDEV devices should be included in the EAL initialization that is prformed by xran.
This commit adds a way of adding the BBDEV device from OAI.
Also fixes an issue with pkgconfig in xran.
Get xran stats in the trx_oran_get_stats function
and use trx_oran_get_stats upon stopping and ending RF.
Co-authored-by: Romain Beurdouche <romain.beurdouche@eurecom.fr>
Look up xran_fh_init/xran_fh_config through driver instead of peaking
into xran internals. Note that xran writes values back into these
structs during initialization, and hence it is important to store them
_after initialization_.
Some remarks regarding less obvious changes:
- slotnum is replaced by slots_in_sf: SLOTNUM_PER_SUBFRAME uses the time
duration of a slot (=interval_us_local) to calculate the numbers of
slots in a subframe, which can be done with a simple shift instead
- The prach duration should be queried from the PRACH configuration
table. The function to query the occasion info is part of the MAC
layer code while this information can be used outside of this layer.
Use header `nr_prach_config.h` to not duplicate functionality.
Co-authored-by: Romain Beurdouche <romain.beurdouche@eurecom.fr>
Split out type and function definitions for a cleaner separation for
some consumers of these functions. Concretely, nr_mac_common.h includes
various ASN.1 NR RRC headers, but not all consumers of these APIs might
need these headers. For instance, the next commit will use these
functions in the driver for 7.2 (it needs to compute PRACH length), but
the driver itself does not depend on nor does it need the ASN.1 NR RRC
headers. Defining a new header avoids the problem.
bugfix: UE AMBR is optional
This was a problem with open5gs and more than one PDU session. The core network
sets UE AMBR only once, leading to failure in the gNB for the second PDU session.
(A proper handling of AMBR has to be develop at some point in the gNB.)
The buffers are set up by the OAI xran driver, so instead of peaking
into xran internal data, access the buffers through the driver directly.
The buffers get set up through the following xran calls
In xran_5g_fronthault_config():
- src => sFrontHaulTxBbuIoBufCtrl
- srccp => sFrontHaulTxPrbMapBbuIoBufCtrl
- dst => sFrontHaulRxBbuIoBufCtrl
- dstcp => sFrontHaulRxPrbMapBbuIoBufCtrl
In xran_5g_prach_req()
- prach(dst) => sFHPrachRxBbuIoBufCtrl
- prach(dst)decomp => sFHPrachRxBbuIoBufCtrlDecomp
Note that in all cases:
- the xran buffer array is [XRAN_N_FE_BUF_LEN][XRAN_MAX_SECTOR_NR][XRAN_MAX_ANTENNA_NR]
(of [internal] type BbuIoBufCtrlStruct, but we give an sBufferList)
- the driver buffer array is [XRAN_MAX_ANTENNA_NR][XRAN_N_FE_BUF_LEN]
Hence, we switch the order of indexing, leave out the sector, and omit
the sBufferList member.
xran_get_slot_idx_from_tti() has been introduced to access data
information from xran. However, it makes no sense, as the used macros to
calculate frame, slot, subframe, are already in the public API. Hence,
use these macros directly.
It would be possible to remove xran_get_slot_idx_from_tti(), but doing
so we would need to update the patch ID, causing trouble to users.
CI: set interface name in UPF container for RFSim5G
This MR addresses an issue related to CN deployment, observed in the RFSim5G CI pipeline. Specifically, the IP addresses within the UPF container were not consistently bound to the correct network interfaces. This inconsistency led to incorrect IP address assignments for the N3, N4, and N6 interfaces, resulting in connectivity issues.
See merge request oai/openairinterface5g!3517
Fix automatic SSS detection logic
When we try to detect a specific PCI and it fails, the SSS detection returns
successful detection with wrong frequency offset.
This was a problem with open5gs and more than one PDU session.
The core network sets UE AMBR only once, leading to failure in the gNB
for the second PDU session.
(A proper handling of AMBR has to be develop at some point in the gNB.)
Integration: `2025.w27`
Closes#958
See merge request oai/openairinterface5g!3506
* !3349 Speed up docker deployment in CI
* !3360 NR UE: fix reestablishment for NTN
* !3488 Refactor F1 UE context messages, add unit tests
* !3502 bugfix for UL TBSLBRM
* !3475 Use of common functions to prepare FAPI PDUs at gNB MAC
* !3499 NR UE: enable CSI report for SISO case
* !3497 Update/refine gNB MAC stats, update L1
* remove unit test `--output-on-failure` option to avoid hitting timeout
* !3508 gNB: fix NTN UL retransmissions
* !3494 bugfix: read msg_type only after deciphering
* set `tx_amp_backoff_dB = 30;` for RFsim 2x2 to make it pass
* !3432 NR RRC Reject UE
* !3500 Various fixes for UE handling, HO doc updates
* !3398 continuously update SIB19 information for rfsim NTN LEO scenarios
continuously update SIB19 information for rfsim NTN LEO scenarios
Contains mainly these changes:
- gNB: add function nr_update_sib19() allowing to update SIB19
information
- rfsimulator: update SIB19 contents every frame for LEO channel
simulations
- NR UE: improve initial timing advance calculation from SIB19
Before, we only considered ta_Common_r17 and the SAT position from SIB19
to compute the initial timing advance value. This is good enough if the
satellite does not move too fast (e.g. GEO satellite).
Now we also consider ta_CommonDrift_r17, ta_CommonDriftVariant_r17 and
the SAT velocity together with the epoch time from SIB19. This improves
the accuracy of the initial TA computation, esp. for LEO satellite
scenarios.
Various fixes for UE handling, HO doc updates
- On release request, search both attach and connected list to free a UE.
- on DU disconnect, only release the correspnonding UE contexts.
- When no AMF for the UE, auto-release the UE (NGAP would also send an
answer, but better check first)
- implement a "grace period" before the DU/MAC automatically releases a
UE: this is to avoid cases in which (for whatever reason) the UE
release request is not honored by the CU. In order to not fill up UE
contexts unnecessarily, the DU will eventually (after 10s) drop the UE
context
- some clarification in HO tutorial
When the RA procedure fails at Msg4, we trigger UL failure and send a
message to the CU to request release. There was a bug in that upon the
ensueing release command, we did not search in the attach list (only
connected list). However, the UE failing at Msg4 does not have
transitioned to the connected list yet, thus not freeing the context.
Fixes: 8f62baefa6 ("Use list of UEs during RA instead of array of RA
processes)"
It might happen that the CU does not answer a release request. In that
case, the MAC would never free the UE context, potentially blocking the
DU. Avoid this by introducing a "grace period" after which a UE context
is automatically freed at the MAC (and RLC), currently at 10s after the
30s UL failure timer.
Mark non-existing AMF UE NGAP ID through invalid INT64_MAX number
(permitted range is up to 2^40-1). Check for this range in the RAN
function, as we might otherwise pass the invalid AMF UE NGAP ID to the
agent, which would assert with
nr-softmodem: /oai-ran/openair2/E2AP/flexric/src/lib/3gpp/enc/enc_gnb.c:83: enc_gNB_UE_asn: Assertion `gnb->amf_ue_ngap_id < 1UL << 40' failed.
In other words, don't send KPM messages for a UE which has no valid AMF
UE NGAP ID yet (which follows from the fact that the spec requires an
AMF UE NGAP ID; the previous behavior of simply sending 0 could be
considered a bug, because it's not the UE's true AMF UE NGAP ID).
rx_list is replaced by an array of size 2^(SN size - 1)
which is 131072 for an SN size of 18 bits, leading to
1048576 bytes of memory used. (Less for smaller SN sizes.)
A lot of RX processing was to run through rx_list. When the list was
big (with some non-ideal channel), it can take some time. Removing this
list should improve things. Checking with benchmark_nr_rlc_am_entity
a speedup of more thant x10 is achieved (except for the case 1024 which
is surprisingly faster than the others in the develop branch).
The only thing that may be slower is when looking for cur->next where
the SN is different, in which case we need to look for all SN one by
one until we find something or reach the limit (rx_highest_status).
These are the functions get_first_rx_pdu() and get_next_rx_pdu().
NR RRC Reject UE
Improvements in procedures to handle RRCReject message both at gNB and
UE. At gNB we send RRC Reject if the UE cannot be given resources to go
into connected mode.