This commit refactors startServer to use getaddrinfo() to
prepare the socket creation. Doing so, it also adds support for
IPv6 by using AF_UNSPEC as the address family.
This commits uses getaddrinfo(3) when connecting as client to the
rfsimulator. This enables name lookups, through DNS or a hosts file.
This change makes it easier to use the simulator in a dynamic
environment like Docker or Kubernetes by only targeting the name of
the container or service.
The default values set by xran for DPDK socket memory/limit is 8192. It
is changed when the variable for the memory size, given down to xran, is
non-zero (cf also previous patch). Since the last patch, if nothing is
given in OAI configuration, OAI will pass down a size of 8192. However,
a configuration value of 0 is a valid choice (it is a pre-allocation,
DPDK will allocate dynamically), so modify the default in xran to be 0
so that all sizes, including 0, can be given to DPDK.
Note that the currently used implementation of xran will always try to
allocate this memory on NUMA node 0. If you want to use another one,
this field has to be set to 0 (no pre-allocation), and DPDK will
allocate it dynamically.
Co-authored-by: Sagar Arora <sagar.arora@openairinterface.org>
xran has a mechanism to request DPDK to allocate a configurable amount
of bytes for huge pages. We set it to 0 until now; expose this variable
through configuration, and provide a meaningful default 8192 MiB.
Provide documentation.
It is very possible that the operating system returns a file
descriptor bigger than the size of bridge->buf (MAX_FD_RFSIMU, which
is 250 as of now). As a minimum, let's fail if the socket file
descriptor is out of bounds.
A proper solution may be implemented later, if needed.
- if search fails, keeps increasing the rx gain (set by --ue-rxgain) by
3 db until USRP max rx gain
- if initial sync is success, sets the rxgain to the value of
(TARGET_RX_POWER (50) - pbch digital power in dB/RE)
making aerial shm prefix configurable (so we can use muliptle VNFs per PNF)
making the nvipc thread affinity configurable and using threadCreate.
removing aerial_vnf_nr_aerial_p7_start_thread
The actual propagation delay should not be smaller than the one specified.
A too short propagation delay might result in too early reception of Msg1, and with that in a mis-detection of the RAPID.
xran's xran_bm_init() uses rte_pktmbuf_pool_create() to allocate DPDK
buffers. For a 1x1 configuration, the number of buffers might be too
small, and rte_pktmbuf_pool_create() might fail. This commit ensures
that we increase the number of buffers to have enough even in a 1x1
configuration. This works by chosing the next power of two, which is
recommended as per DPDK documentation.
Closes-Bug: #750
Add the option `--rfsimulator.prop_delay` to specify the simulated receive-path (gNB: UL, UE: DL) propagation delay in ms.
This option can be used e.g. to simulate a simple GEO satellite channel by specifying `--rfsimulator.prop_delay 238.74` to both, the gNB and the UE.
This is part of the work developed by Fraunhofer IIS within the ESA-funded project 5G-GOA (https://connectivity.esa.int/projects/5ggoa).
Reset all the circular buffer to zero; this ensures that we cannot read
uninitialized data. Since this is RFsimulator, performance is not a
problem here either (and zeroing out happens only once).
Add an API to allow out-of-order writes to a radio interface, unlike the
current interface.
this function is called in UE in this commit, even if the tx might
still be in order.
Later, i plan to improve UE pulti-threading, that will lead to out of
order tx. also, the gNB will benefit of this new function to replace
several specific pieces of code that reorder tx with over complex and
slow systems
Use the correct function in order to close open RFsim connections,
instead of a simple close(). If this is not done correctly, it might
happen that the softmodem closes, but an L1 thread might still read
samples (bug in higher layers). Then, RFsim tries to read a socket
(because it has an open connection), but the actual connection had been
close()d. This commit fixes this behavior.
Robert Schmidt