N2 handover
This MR introduces full support for N2 handover, covering handover
decision, preparation, execution, and notification between source and
target NG-RAN nodes.
Key features:
1. Handover Decision & Preparation:
- Implement N2 handover decision based on UE measurement reports.
- Generate the Handover Preparation Information message, including
RRCReconfiguration.
- Send Handover Required message from the source NG-RAN to the AMF.
2. Handover Execution:
- Decode and handle the Handover Request on the target NG-RAN.
- Process the Handover Command on the source gNB, triggering
RRCReconfiguration.
- Initiate Handover Notify after successful completion.
3 NGAP & RRC Enhancements:
- Implement NGAP encoding/decoding functions for Handover Required,
Handover Request, Handover Command, Handover Failure, and Handover
Notify (3GPP TS 38.413).
- Adds NG-RAN Status Transfer support (UL/DL) for PDCP COUNT
preservation during mobility:
- support for NGAP Uplink and Downlink RAN Status Transfer messages
(TS 38.413 §9.2.3.13-14) to enable proper PDCP COUNT value
transfer during handover or recovery: NGAP encoding/decoding for
RAN Status Transfer, PDCP helpers to extract and apply COUNT (HFN
+ SN) per DRB. This aligns with TS 38.300 §9.2.3.2.1 and TS 23.502
§4.9.1.3.3, ensuring PDCP status preservation in AM.
4. Testing:
- Introduce a Telnet command to manually trigger N2 handover using UE
ID and neighbor PCI.
- Add configuration file for testing N2 handover with a target gNB.
CI: build images on Jetson (armv8)
Add a new build pipeline for NVIDIA Jetson (armv8). Images have tag
prefix armv8_ to distinguish from gracehopper-built images prefixed arm_
(should have maybe been better with armv9_?)
The pipeline is using the already existing conf files
for the source/target gNB CUs/DUs.
For the sake of simplicity, neighbour-config.conf has
been rewritten and simplified in this commit, then
adopted in this pipeline. The file was not used before.
For clarity, rename to native_armv9 for clarity. The check inside Python
checked for native_arm, and if we introduce native_armv8 (for jetson),
it would also match that.
Add nr-cuup to run_locally.sh
E1 deploy wasn't enable in the run_locally.sh script to run the CI on a local
machine. This MR is adding it. It was validated locally.
CI: Generalize PhySim tests, run PhySims on Gracehopper
This changeset generalizes/harmonizes the CI infrastructure for physim
testing, and adds a new pipeline for physim tests on Gracehopper
machines.
Specifically:
- Refactor the existing CI code for running and analyzing physical
simulators. The existing code assumed those tests are deployed using
OpenShift. Instead, OpenShift/Helm-specificities (e.g., running a
"release") have been removed, and instead of hardcoding the deployment
of the physical simulators using a script for Helm, the function takes
any script that can deploy using Helm/docker/from source. The overall
appearance is the same.
- Add a new pipeline RAN-PhySim-GraceHopper-5G that executes physical
simulators on gracehopper. Reporting is done in the same way as for
existing physical simulators (e.g., like in the RAN-PhySim-Cluster-5G
pipeline), but deployed in docker instead of helm.
-> some tests don't work reliably on ARM yet and are skipped
- the RAN-gNB-N300-Timing-Phytest-LDPC pipeline has been reworked to use
the same code for testing T2 offload, with ctest, and the same
reporting.
- the CUDA LDPC test XML has been removed, as these tests don't work
reliably.
- add a new macro add_timed_physim_test() that allows to define
thresholds to be checked, so that ctest will check for them. see the
documentation for more information
CI: Creation of F1 Handover pipeline
In this MR we are modifying/adding all the required files (.xml, .conf,
.yml) in order to create a pipeline on Jenkins that allows us to test
OTA F1 handover.
Remove the runtime, which is not interesting, and add instead
- test name and if the test failed
- the threshold checks, if any, and
- possible additional information about test failures.
Prior to this change, each test would have, as label, it's description.
This leads to many labels, which are normally reserved for grouping
tests. Move the description into a custom property instead.
Since we rely on the JSON output for the generation of HTML reports, we
need to also extract the description from the generated JSON. However,
custom properties are only logged starting from cmake 3.30. For
back-wards compatibility, write an additional, separate environment
variable TEST_DESCRIPTION from which the description can be read as a
fallback.
For the add_timed_physim_test(), this has been already done in a parent
commit.
Reworking BWP configuration
This MR reworks the configuration via fail of additional BWPs. Moreover, it
allows for a single BWP to be configured for a given UE at a given time (BWP
switch possible only via reconfiguration). It also reworks PTRS configuration
for consistency with the BWP one.
Fixes and updates for UL scheduling, notably DSUUU
Fix a number of problems that stem from !3521, notably regarding Msg3
scheduling, retransmissions in "UL-heavy" TDD scenarios, and BSR
handling. Modify a CI test to run a UL-heavy TDD scenario, and add
documentation for UL-heavy TDD scenarios.
The parameter is either set to 10 (the default, so not necessary), or to
0 forcing the gNB to schedule the UE all the time, which is only
necessary in specific scenario, and here simply wrong.
gNB: adaptive DL/UL MCS based on reported SSB-SINR and measured PUSCH SNR
Currently this is used esp. if the number of rounds is limited to 1
(e.g. disable_harq).
A future commit will enable to deploy physical simulators via docker.
Hence:
- Move the script to run out of deploy_oc_physim(), to make it more
generic (later commits will introduce other scripts)
- pass the working directory (the function will be moved into
cls_oaicitest, as it fits neither cls_containerize nor cls_cluster
when deploying the tests from source)
- not using ci-scripts: don't hardcode a specific path, just use the
working directory
- avoid helm-specific pods summary, and put it into the general "physim
logs"
- remove helm-specific "release", and use a generic name for results
- always log pod logs and status to debug, even if deployment was not
successful or tests did not finish.
Instead of making the function a class member, make it an instance
member because (1) it is more aligned with other functions, notably,
run(), and (2) especially for RemoteCmd() it can be faster, as
successive exec_script() calls do not require a new SSH connection.
Robert Schmidt